Where & When
Monday, November 25, 2024
9 a.m. -2:45 p.m.
HWCRC Auditorium
3-4:30 p.m.
Posters in Elliman Atrium
421 E. Canfield
Cocktail reception follows until 6 p.m.
Registration
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Lunch will be provided to registered attendees.
Topic & Speakers
“Targeting the metabolic and immunologic vulnerabilities of breast cancer stem cells”
Max Wicha, M.D.
Madeline and Sidney Forbes Professor of Oncology
Director, Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery
Founding Director Emeritus, Rogel Cancer Center
Agenda
9-9:10
Welcome – Kay-Uwe Wagner, Ph.D., Leader, Tumor Biology & Microenvironment Program
9:10-9:20
Boris Pasche, M.D., Ph.D. – CEO of Karmanos Cancer Institute and Chair, Department of Oncology, Wayne State Medical School - Welcome and introduction
9:20-9:45
Mike Wilson, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Oncology “Epigenetic regulators of early onset endometrial cancer”
9:45-10:10
Izabela Podgorski, Ph.D. – Professor, Pharmacology; Co-leader of Prostate Cancer Research Team
“Lipid and iron dynamics in the metastatic bone microenvironment."
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-10:55
Ben Kidder, Ph.D. – Associate Professor, Oncology
“Decoding epigenetic and transcriptional networks in cancer”
11:-11:25
HyeonJoo Cheon, Assistant Professor, Oncology
“Non-canonical Roles of PD-L1 in Tumor Progression”
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Lunch - HWCRC Auditorium
1-2
Keynote Speaker - Max Wicha, M.D.
Madeline and Sidney Forbes Professor of Oncology
Director, Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery
Founding Director Emeritus, Rogel Cancer Center
2-2:30
Eric Sebzda, Ph.D. – Associate Professor, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
“A targetable subset of T cells is necessary for tumor progression towards malignancy”
2:45-4
Poster Presentations at Louis Elliman Atrium, 421 E. Canfield
4-6
Cocktail Reception
Contact Us
For more information, please contact J'nice Stork at storkj@karmanos.org.