CANCER RESEARCH DAY AGENDA – OCTOBER 14, 2021
Cancer Research Day will be held virtually on the Whova platform. Access information will be provided closer to the conference.
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8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Welcome & Symposium
8:30-9:00 "A role for DNA damage in chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy" Jill Fehrenbacher, Ph.D.
9:00-9:30 "Measuring and Managing the SPADE Pentad" Kurt Kroenke, M.D.
9:30-10:00 "Symptom Assessment and Behavioral Intervention in Advanced Cancer" Catherine Mosher, Ph.D. |
10:00 AM – 10:05 AM
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| Graduate Student Presentations (10-minute presentation / 5-minute Q & A) |
10:05 AM - 10:20 AM | “Targeting ALDH1A1 and regulatory networks that support stemness in ovarian cancer cells” Vaishnavi Muralikrishnan |
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM | “Validation of SHP2 as a multifunctional therapeutic target to metastatic breast cancer” Hao Chen |
10:35 AM - 10:50 AM | “Characteristics of home-based self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) among low-income women using conjoint analysis” Erika Biederman |
10:50 AM - 11:05 PM | “Transcriptome-wide analysis of ADAR3 binding and regulation of ADAR1 editing activity in glioblastoma cells” Reshma Raghava Kurup |
11:05 AM – 11:15 AM
| Break |
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM | Keynote Speaker Presentation Charles Loprinzi, M.D. |
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch and Poster Session (attendees to move virtually from poster to poster and will be available for all attendees including judges) |
1:15 PM – 1:20 PM
| Break |
| Post-Doctoral Presentations (10-minute presentation / 5-minute Q & A) |
1:20 PM - 1:35 PM | “Clinico-genomic characterization of metastatic thymic epithelial tumors” Fatemeh Larijani Ardeshir |
1:35 PM - 1:50 PM | “Facilitators and barriers to implementation of tobacco cessation services in community pharmacies” Katy Ellis Hilts |
1:50 PM - 2:05 PM | “Covid-19 diagnosis and the risk of all-cause mortality among adults newly diagnosed with cancer: Using a large electronic health record database” Nimish Ramesh Valvi |
2:05 PM - 2:20 PM | “Analytical validation of a computational method for pharmacogenomics genotyping from clinical whole exome sequencing” Tyler Shugg |
2:20 PM – 3:00 PM | Remarks by Dr. Lee Kelvin Lee, M.D. & Hari Nakshatri, Ph.D.
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| 2-minute pre-recorded Posters Available for Viewing |