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”

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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.

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