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  • Dan Zhao
    Mar 18 | 8:00 AM-9:00 AM

    Targeting KRAS in Pancreatic Cancer

    Dan Zhao, MD, PhD
    University of Texas 

    Stanford Frontiers in Cancer Clinical Translation Seminar Series

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  • Christine Menias
    Mar 18 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Overcoming the Undruggable Nature of the Most Common Human Oncogene K-Ras

    Kevan Shokat, PhD
    University of California San Francisco

    Stanford Cancer Biology Program

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  • Elham Rahimy
    Mar 20 | 7:30 AM-9:00 AM

    Radiation Oncology Chart Rounds - 3/20/25

    Elham Rahimy, MD
    Stanford University

    Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education

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  • James K. Chen
    Mar 20 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    The Roles of Aldehyde Dehydrogenases in Stemness and Cancer

    James K. Chen, PhD
    Stanford University

    Stanford Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series

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  • Christine Menias
    Mar 21 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

    Mapping the Structure—Signaling—Phenotype Landscape in CAR T Cells Using Synthetic Signaling Protein Arrays and Machine Learning

    Kyle Daniels, PhD
    Stanford University

    Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology

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  • Christine Menias
    Mar 25 | 8:00 AM-5:15 PM

    Stanford Cancer Institute Retreat

    Stanford University

    Stanford Cancer Institute

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  • Christine Menias
    Mar 25 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    mRNA Translation in Cancer Etiology

    Andrew Hsieh, MD
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

    Stanford Department of Pathology

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  • Elham Rahimy
    Mar 27 | 7:30 AM-9:00 AM

    Radiation Oncology Chart Rounds - 3/27/25

    Elham Rahimy, MD
    Stanford University

    Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education

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  • Bryan Lanzman
    Mar 31 | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM

    CT and MRI of the Brain

    Bryan Lanzman, MD
    Stanford University

    Stanford & UNTH Radiology Webinar Series 

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  • Susu Yan
    Apr 01 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Democratization of Proton Therapy

    Susu Yan, PhD
    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Stanford Department of Radiation Oncology

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  • Christine Menias
    Apr 01 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Cancer Biology Seminar Series

    Theo Ross, MD, PhD
    UT Southwestern Medical Center

    Stanford Cancer Biology Program

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  • Michael Hofman
    Apr 03 | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM

    Rapidly Evolving Evidence Base for PSMA Theranostics: What's New in 2025?

    Michael Hofman, MBBS, FRACP, FAANMS, FICIS, GAICD
    Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

    Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS)

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  • Michael Kastan
    Apr 08 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM

    Cellular Stress Responses: Cancer to Neurodegeneration, Causation to Therapy

    Michael Kastan, MD, PhD
    Duke Cancer Institute

    Stanford Cancer Institute Breakthroughs in Cancer Seminar Series

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  • Michael Kastan
    Apr 11 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Lean Adipocytes Secrete the Oxylipin 9S-HODE to Suppress Breast Cancer

    Keren Hilgendorf, PhD
    University of Utah

    Stanford Nutrition and Obesity Affinity Group (NORC) Research Seminars

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  • Christine Menias
    Apr 15 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Cancer Biology Seminar Series

    Alberto Ciccia, PhD
    Columbia University Medical Center

    Stanford Cancer Biology Program

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  • Brian Pogue
    Apr 15 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Stanford Medical Physics Seminar Series

    Brian Pogue, PhD
    University of Wisconsin

    Stanford Department of Radiation Oncology

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  • Peter Savage
    Apr 15 | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

    Self-Nonself Discrimination Conferred by Regulatory T Cell Specificity

    Peter A. Savage, PhD
    University of Chicago

    Stanford Immunology

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  • Christine Menias
    Apr 15 | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM

    Addressing Emerging Breast Cancer Disparities in Asian American Populations: The CRANE Study & The ASPIRE Cohort Study

    Scarlett Lin Gomez, MPH, PhD
    University of California San Fransisco

    Stanford Center of Asian Health Research and Education

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  • Imon Banerjee
    Apr 16 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Integrative Biomedical Imaging informatics Seminar Series

    Imon Banerjee, PhD
    Mayo Clinic

    Stanford Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics (IBIIS)

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  • Nir Hacohen
    Apr 22 | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

    Learning the Rules of Human Immune Responses

    Nir Hacohen, PhD    
    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Stanford Immunology

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  • Christine Menias
    Apr 25 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Multimodal AI in Healthcare - Opportunities and Challenges

    Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, PhD
    Colorado University Anschutz

    Stanford Radiology Grand Rounds

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  • Christine Menias
    Apr 25 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    The 8th Annual Head & Neck Cancer Patient and Caregiver Symposium

    Stanford University

    Stanford Otolaryngology — Head & Neck Surgery

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  • Christopher Beaulieu
    Apr 28 | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM

    Subtle Fractures on Radiography

    Christopher Beaulieu, MD, PhD
    Stanford University

    Stanford & UNTH Radiology Webinar Series 

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  • Carla Nowosad
    Apr 29 | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

    Stanford Immunology Seminar Series

    Carla Nowosad, PhD
    NYU Grossman School of Medicine

    Stanford Immunology

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  • Daniel Sze
    May 02 | 12:00 AM-1:00 PM

    Publication Ethics in the Age of AI

    Daniel Sze, MD, PhD
    Stanford University

    Stanford Radiology Grand Rounds

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  • James Moon
    May 06 | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

    Stanford Immunology Seminar Series

    James J. Moon, PhD
    Harvard University

    Stanford Immunology

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  • Christine Menias
    May 13 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Cancer Biology Seminar Series

    Núria López-Bigas, PhD
    Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona

    Stanford Cancer Biology Program

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  • David Jordan
    May 13 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Medical Physics Seminar Series

    David Jordan, BS, MS, PhD
    Case Western Reserve University

    Stanford Department of Radiation Oncology

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  • Alexander Marson
    May 13 | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

    Decoding and Reprogramming T Cells Circuits with CRISPR

    Alexander Marson, MD, PhD
    Institute of Genomic Immunology, UCSF

    Stanford Immunology

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  • Yael David
    May 14 | 12:00 AM - May 13 | 1:30 PM

    Stanford Microbiology & Immunology Wednesday Seminar Series

    Yael David, PhD
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Stanford Microbiology & Immunology

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  • Raul Rabadan, PhD
    May 16 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

    2025 CCSB Seminar Series

    Raul Rabadan, PhD
    Columbia University

    Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology

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  • Melody Shwartz
    May 20 | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

    Stanford Immunology Seminar Series

    Melody Shwartz, PhD
    University of Chicago

    Stanford Immunology

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  • Quynh-Le
    May 23 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Targeting Galectin-1 with Radiation

    Quynh-Thu Le, MD, FACR, FASTRO
    Stanford University

    Stanford Radiology Grand Rounds

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  • Manjit Dosanjh
    May 27 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Medical Physics Seminar Series

    Manjit Dosanjh, PhD
    University of Oxford

    Stanford Department of Radiation Oncology

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  • Melody Shwartz
    May 27 | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

    Spatiotemporal Programming of Cytokine Immunotherapy in Cancer

    K. Dane Wittrup
    Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Stanford Immunology

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  • Stephanie Eisenbarth
    Jun 03 | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM

    Stanford Immunology Seminar Series

    Stephanie C. Eisenbarth, MD, PhD
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Stanford Immunology

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  • Cathy Cutler
    Jun 10 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    2025 MIPS Molecular Imaging Seminar Series

    Cathy Cutler, PhD
    Isotope Research & Production Brookhaven National Laboratory

    Stanford Molecular Imaging Program

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  • Simon Powell
    Jun 10 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM

    2025 Stanford Cancer Institute Breakthroughs in Cancer Seminar Series

    Simon Powell, MD, PhD, FRCP
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

    Stanford Cancer Institute Breakthroughs in Cancer Seminar Series

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  • Jelena Levi, PhD
    Jun 12 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    2025 MIPS Molecular Imaging Seminar Series

    Jelena Levi, PhD
    Cellsight Technologies

    Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS)

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  • Ana Maria Crawford
    Aug 20 | 7:00 AM-8:30 AM

    Oncologic Emergencies

    Ana Maria Crawford, MD, MSc, FASA
    Stanford University

    Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education

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  • Brittany Dashevsky
    Aug 25 | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM

    Contrast Enhanced Mammography

    Brittany Dashevsky, MD, DPhil
    Stanford University

    Stanford & UNTH Radiology Webinar Series 

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  • Christine Menias
    Sep 02 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM

    Mathematical Models as the Engine of “Digital Twins” in Radiation Oncology and N=1 Clinical Trials

    Heiko Engerling, PhD
    University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Stanford Department of Radiation Oncology

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  • Ann-Marie Chacko
    Sep 04 | 12:00 PM - Sep 09 | 1:00 PM

    2025 MIPS Molecular Imaging Seminar Series

    Ann-Marie Chacko, PhD, MS
    Duke NUS Medical School

    Stanford Molecular Imaging Program

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  • Jean Fan, PhD
    Sep 19 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

    2025 CCSB Seminar Series

    Jean Fan, PhD
    John Hokpins University

    Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology

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  • Chris Sadee
    Sep 29 | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM

    Artificial Intelligence Applications in Radiology

    Christoph Sadee, MRes
    Stanford University

    Stanford & UNTH Radiology Webinar Series 

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  • Eileen White
    Oct 14 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM

    2025 Stanford Cancer Institute Breakthroughs in Cancer Seminar Series

    Eileen White, PhD
    Rutgers Cancer Institute

    Stanford Cancer Institute Breakthroughs in Cancer Seminar Series

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  • Elham Azizi, PhD
    Oct 17 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

    2025 CCSB Seminar Series

    Elham Azizi, PhD
    Colombia University

    Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology

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  • Jean Fan, PhD
    Oct 21 | 8:00 AM - Oct 23 | 12:00 PM

    Early Detection of Cancer Conference 2025

    Canary Center at the Stanford School of Medicine

    Stanford Department of Radiology

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  • Benjamin L. Ebert
    Nov 11 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM

    2025 Stanford Cancer Institute Breakthroughs in Cancer Seminar Series

    Benjamin L. Ebert, MD, PhD
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute                                   

    Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology

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  • Hartland Jackson, PhD
    Nov 21 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM

    2025 CCSB Seminar Series

    Hartland Jackson, PhD
    Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health

    Stanford Center for Cancer Systems Biology

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Community Events

Simon Powell
Mar 15 | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Science Café: Lung Cancer Early, Screening Test Recommendations and How it Works

Natalie Lui, MD
Stanford School of Medicine

Stanford Cancer Institute

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