Cancer Events

SDDS 2019: Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium

Date:  Monday-Tuesday, 4/22/2019-4/23/2019

Advances in research and technology now afford us the unique opportunity to develop and test novel diagnostics and therapeutics. The Stanford Drug Discovery Symposium takes advantage of the collective experience and expertise of leaders in drug discovery. A broad range of policy, research, and venture topics are covered.

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Cancer Education Seminar Series

Topic: Thyroid and Parathyroid Disease for the Oncologist

Date:  Tuesday, 4/23/2019
Time:  8:00 - 9:00 am
Location: Cancer Center, Second Floor, CC2103-2105

Live streaming

Speakers:  Robin Cisco, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine

Dana Lin, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine

Cancer Biology Seminar Series 

Topic: Delineating the Determinants and Dynamics of Metastasis

Date:  Tuesday, 4/23/2019
Time:  12:00 - 1:00 PM
Location: Beckman Center, Munzer Auditorium

Speaker: Christina Curtis, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine

Cancer Survivorship Lecture Series 

Topic: Stanford's Primary Care Survivorship Clinic: An Innovative Program Addressing Transitions from Cancer Clinics to Primary Care

Date:  Tuesday, 4/23/2019
Time:  4:00 - 5:00 PM
Location: Cancer Center, 2nd floor, Conference Room CC-2103

Live streaming

Meeting number (access code): 806 570 473
Meeting password: tcdpJ4ch

Speaker: Jennifer Kim, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine

PICI@Stanford SoM Seminar Series 2019

Topic: Metabolic and epigenetic imprinting of myeloid cells in the control of immune responses

Date:  Wednesday, 4/24/2019
Time:  12:00 - 1:00 pm (Lunch served at 11:45 AM - space is limited)
Location: Beckman Center, Room B200

Live streaming

Speaker:  Bali Pulendran, PhD
Violetta L. Horton Professor
Stanford University School of Medicine

4th Annual Emmet B. Keeffe Liver Symposium 

Topic: Liver cancer: Recent Advances and Future Frontiers

Date:  Friday, 4/26/2019
Time:  8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Li Ka Shing Center, Berg Hall

This year’s symposium will focus on recent advances and future frontiers in liver cancer. Hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma are two major forms of primary liver cancer, which is an urgent global health problem. A multidisciplinary team of epidemiologists, basic scientists, hepatologists, surgeons, radiologists and oncologists will provide an update on the state-of-the-art understanding in HCC.

Registration is free.

Cancer Education Seminar Series

Topic: NET Cancer Genetics

Date:  Tuesday, 4/30/2019
Time:  8:00 - 9:00 am
Location: Cancer Center, Second Floor, CC2103-2105

Live streaming

Speaker:  Justin Annes, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine

PancWest Symposium

Date:  Saturday, 5/4/2019
Time:  8:00 AM
Location: Mackenzie Room @ Huang Engineering Center

The 2019 PancWest Symposium, hosted by the Stanford Cancer Institute, will feature exciting work from West Coast researchers focused on pancreatic cancer. Topics covered will include the latest advances in basic mechanisms of pancreatic cancer development, tumor-microenvironment interactions, and new therapeutic strategies.

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Cancer Biology Seminar Series 

Topic: Genomic and Functional Studies of Human Lung Cancers

Date:  Tuesday, 5/7/2019
Time:  12:00 - 1:00 PM
Location: Beckman Center, Munzer Auditorium

Speaker: Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School  

Cancer Early Detection Seminar Series

Topic: The First Cell and the Human cost of going after Cancer’s last

Date:  Friday, 5/10/2019
Time:  10:00 - 11:00 AM
Location: Li Ka Shing Center, LK120

Speaker:  Azra Raza, MD
Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine
Director, MDS Center
Columbia University Medical Center

Marvin A. Karasek Lectureship in Dermatology

Topic: The Promise of Regenerative Medicine: Reprogramming our Cells to Find Cures

Date:  Monday, 5/20/2019
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM - Lecture | Poster Session | Reception
Location: Li Ka Shing Center, Berg Hall

More than 250 million people worldwide live with genetic diseases. What if we could harness the regenerative power of  stem cells to find a more definitive solution?

RSVP by May 3 to Michela Pilo at 650-497-7448 or mpilo@stanford.edu. Pre-registration is required.

Speaker: Anthony Oro, MD, PhD
Eugene and Gloria Bauer Professor of Dermatology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Cancer Biology Seminar Series 

Topic: Building Personal Neoantigen-targeting Vaccines for Cancer

Date:  Tuesday, 5/21/2019
Time:  12:00 - 1:00 PM
Location: Beckman Center, Munzer Auditorium

Speaker: Catherine Wu, MD
Professor, Medicine
Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Cancer Systems Biology Seminar Series 

Topic: Physical Sciences Approaches to Analyze Tumor-Associated ECM Dynamics

Date:  Thursday, 5/23/2019
Time:  2:30 - 3:30 pm
Location: Clark Center, Room S360

Speaker: Claudia Fischbach, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University

PICI@Stanford SoM Seminar Series 2019

Topic: A toolbox of engineered proteins for immunotherapy

Date:  Wednesday, 5/29/2019
Time:  12:00 - 1:00 pm (Lunch served at 11:45 AM - space is limited)
Location: Beckman Center, Room B200

Live streaming

Speaker:  Chris Garcia, PhD
Younger Family Professor and Professor of Structural Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Cancer Systems Biology Seminar Series 

Topic: TBD

Date:  Friday, 6/21/2019
Time:  11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Clark Center, Room S360

Speaker: Alex K. Shalek, PhD
Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Assistant Professor
Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Department of Chemistry, and Koch Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology