NCI SPONSORED SESSIONS and SESSIONS FEATURING NCI STAFF
Sunday, April 1
NIH Grants Session: Changes in Review, Funding, and Funding Opportunities at the NCI
NCI SPONSORED SESSION
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Location: Room W194
Speakers:
- Suresh Mohla, (Chair), Division of Cancer Biology, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Anglea Ng, Center for Scientific Research, NIH, Bethesda, MD
The Cancer Biology Revolution: From Concept to Clinic
Plenary Session
9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Location: Room W375
Speakers:
- Louis M. Staudt, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
NCI Funding and Training Opportunities in Cancer Research
NCI SPONSORED SESSION
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Room W194
Speakers:
- Ming Lei, (Chair), Center for Cancer Training, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Jonathan S. Wiest, (Chair), Center for Cancer Training, NCI, Bethesda, MD
Thyroid Carcinogenesis Following Radiation
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Room S106
Speakers:
- Yuri E. Nikiforov, (Chair), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
- Elizabeth Cardis, (Chair), Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona, Spain
- Tania Bogdanova, Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kiev, Ukraine
- Andre Bouville, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Arthur B. Schneider, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
DNA Damage Repair and Cancer Therapy
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Room S103
Speakers:
- Alan D. D’Andrea, (Chair), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
- Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, New York University, New York, NY
- Andre Nussenzweig, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Tanya T. Paull, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) – A Rapidly Expanding Community Resource: Status, Review of Data Dissemination
NCI SPONSORED SESSION
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Room W194
Speakers:
- Kenna Shaw, (Chair), Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Brad Ozenberger, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
- Greg Eley, Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Raju Kucherlapti, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Josh Stuart, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Challenging Conventional Cancer Care: The Untold Story of Tobacco’s Effect on Cancer Biology, Treatment Response, and Survival
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Location: Room W178
Speakers:
- Roy S. Herbst (Chair), Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, New Haven, CT
- Graham W. Warren, Roswell Park Cancer Inst., Buffalo, NY
- Paul M. Cinciripini, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
- Benjamin A. Toll. Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, New Haven, CT
- Robert T. Croyle, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI, Bethesda, MD
The NCI Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET) Initiative: Using Large-Scale Genomics to Identify Novel Therapeutic Targets for Childhood Cancers
NCI SPONSORED SESSION
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Location: Room W194
Speakers:
- Malcolm A. Smith, (Chair), Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Jaime M. Guidry Auvil, (Chair), Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Tanja M. Davidsen, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, NCI, Bethesda, MD
- Stephen P. Hunger, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO
- Robert Arceci, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, MD
- John M. Maris, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- Chin Lau, Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers, Houston, TX
- Elizabeth Perlman, Children’s Memorial Research Center, Chicago, IL
