2014 Research Symposium & Multidisciplinary Oncology Conference
Regnier Hall and BEST building, KU-Edwards campus
Day 1: Friday, November 14, 2014 11:00am – 8:00pm
AGENDA
11:00am-11:45pm
Rooms 163 and 165, Regnier Hall, Program meetings – CP and D3ET Programs with lunches
11:45-12:30pm
Rooms 163 and 165, Regnier Hall, Program meetings – CCPH and CB Programs with lunches
12:30-1:10pm
Bruce Blazar, MD, Regents’ Professor, Chief, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation
Program, University of Minnesota, “Immunology of GVHD and Transplant”
1:10-1:25pm
Alejandro Parrales Briones, PhD, Postdoctoral fellow – Iwakuma lab, KUMC
“Discovering a drug that induces mutant p53 degradation”
1:25-2:05pm
David E. Avigan, MD, Director, Hematologic Malignancies/Bone Marrow Transplant,
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine – Hematology/Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, “Vaccine strategies post-transplant”
2:05-2:20pm
Break
2:20-3:15pm
Keynote Speaker: Frederick R. Appelbaum, MD, Executive Vice President and Deputy
Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Professor, Division of Medical Oncology,
University of Washington, “AML – Lessons from the Clinic”
3:15-3:30pm
Amber Smith, Graduate Student – Xu lab, KU-L, “A New Tale of David & Goliath; miR-137
Targets the Samurai Warrior of Cancer, Musashi-1”
3:30-4:10pm
Catherine Bollard, MBChB, MD, FRACP, FRCPA, Professor, Department of Pediatrics and
Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, Children’s National Health System,
George Washington University, “Development of multi-valent CTLs directed against viral and
tumor antigens”
4:10-4:20pm
Break
4:20- 5:00pm
Stanley R. Riddell, MD, Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Oncology, Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, “Cellular therapy of cancer”
5:00-5:15pm
KUCC Update and Announcement of Pilot Award Winners
Roy Jensen, MD, Director, University of Kansas Cancer Center
5:15-5:30pm
Break, WALK OVER TO BEST BUILDING FOR POSTER RECEPTION
5:30-6:00pm
5:30-7:30pm
Poster Reception begins – BEST building
Clinical Exhibitors - Regnier Hall
6:00-7:00pm
Poster Competition – Odd-Numbered posters, BEST Building
7:00-8:00pm
Poster Competition – Even-Numbered posters, BEST Building
Day 2: Saturday, November 15, 2014 7:30am – 1:05pm
Regnier Hall, KU-Edwards campus
7:30-8:00am
Breakfast and registration
Topic 1 – Pancreatic Cancer
8:00-8:20am
Philip Philip, MD– Medical Oncology
8:20-8:40am
Christopher Lominska, MD, Radiation Oncology
8:40-9:00am
Sean Kumer, MD, PhD, FACS, Surgical Oncology
9:00-9:15pm
Panel Discussion with clinicians over topic
9:15-9:25am
Break
Topic 2 – Colon Cancer
9:25-9:45am
Joaquina Baranda, MD, Medical Oncology
9:45-10:05am
Xinglei Shen, MD, Radiation Oncology
10:05-10:25am
Mazin-Al-Kasspooles, MD, Surgical Oncology
10:25-10:40am
Panel Discussion with clinicians over topic
10:40-10:50am
Break
Topic 3 – Breast Cancer
10:50-11:10am
Qamar Khan, MD, Medical Oncology
11:10-11:30am
Melissa Mitchell, MD, Radiation Oncology
11:30-11:50am
Jamie Wagner, MD, Surgical Oncology
11:50-12:05pm
Panel Discussion with clinicians over topic
12:05-12:15pm
Break
Keynote Clinical Speaker:
12:15-1:15pm
Michael Sabel, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan