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Upcoming Events
March 25 - 26, 2026
Cancer-Alzheimer's Disease Inverse Correlation (CADIC): From Biological Mechanisms to Therapeutic Potential - NIA & NCI Workshop
This NIA & NCI workshop will convene experts in Alzheimer's disease, cancer biology, statistics, epidemiology, and translational/clinical research to discuss the inverse association between Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
April 23, 2026 (11:30 - 1:00 pm ET)
Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes Forum: Tumor-Draining Lymph Node Dynamics - Systemic Relevance and Effects on Distant Metastasis, Lessons from Patients and Animal Models (Part 2)
Drs. Tanja De Gruijl (Amsterdam UMC), Eliane Piaggio (Institut Curie), Nicolas Girard (Institut Curie), &
Sylvio Gutkind (UCSD) will discuss the systemic relevance and effects on metastasis of tumor-draining lymph nodes.
April 29, 2026 (2:00 - 3:00 pm ET)
Genomic Data Commons (GDC) Webinar: Uncovering Patterns in Genomic Variation Data with Clinical Phenotypes Using the New GDC Correlation Plot Tool
This webinar will focus on a new GDC Correlation Plot Tool, which provides a framework for correlating GDC molecular information (mutation, CNV, gene expression) with clinical and survival data.
April 30, 2026 (11:00 - 12:00 pm ET)
Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System Webinar: Perineural Invasion
Drs. Moran Amit (MD Anderson) and Richard Wong (MSKCC) will discuss the role of perineural invasion in cancer.
May 12, 2026 (11:00 - 12:30 pm ET)
Tumor-Draining Lymph Nodes Forum: Tumor Draining Lymph Nodes in the Context of Tertiary Lymphoid Structures
Drs. Marie-Caroline Dieu-Nosjean (Sorbonne University), Francesca Barone (Candel Therapeutics), Nikhil Joshi (Yale School of Medicine), & Juan Osorio (MSKCC) will discuss tumor-draining lymph nodes in the context of tertiary lymphoid structures.
May 21, 2026 (11:00 - 12:00 pm ET)
Fueling Cancer Progression by the Nervous System Webinar: Cancer Neuroscience of Brain Metastasis
Drs. Frank Winkler (Heidelberg University) and Humsa Venkatesh (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) will share the neuroscience of metastasis to the brain.