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  • OCT 06, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    The Clinical and Economic Impact of Precision Cancer Medicine

    Lincoln Nadauld, MD, PhD
    Executive Director of Precision Medicine & Precision Genomics, Intermountain Healthcare
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Decoding human tumors and healthy tissue with mass cytometry
    OCT 06, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Decoding human tumors and healthy tissue with mass cytometry

    Jonathan M Irish, PhD
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology Scientific Director of the Cancer & Immunology Core and the Mass Cytometry Center of Excellence
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 06, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Precision Genomics and Precision Medicine for Immuno-Oncology

    Erin N Newburn, MS, PhD
    Manager, Field Applications Scientist, Personalis, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 06, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Speaker - PD-1 cancer immunotherapy

    Gordon J. Freeman, PhD
    Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 06, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Speaker: Reference Component Analysis of Single Cell Transcriptomes Reveals Cellular Heterogeneity in Colorectal Cancer

    Shyam Prabhakar, PhD
    Associate Director/Integrative Genomics and Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 06, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Detection and analysis of circulating tumor cells - challenges and solutions

    Siegfried Hauch
    Director, Liquid Biopsy and Site Manager, QIAGEN Hannover Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 06, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Heterogeneity and Resistance Mechanisms in Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Raoul S. Concepcion, MD, FACS
    Chief Science Officer, U.S. Urology Partners, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    Prostate Cancer Screening Update-2016

    Judd W Moul, MD, FACS
    James H Semans MD Professor of Surgery, Division of Urologic Surgery, Director, Duke Prostate Center, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Label-free FTIR imaging to distinguish malignant from non-malignant tissues

    Klaus Gerwert, PhD
    Chair of Biophysics and Professor, Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Biophysics, Bochum, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Sensitive and Specific, Multiplex, Real-Time PCR Assays for Assessing the Abundance of Extremely Rare Mutations Associated with Cancer Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapy

    Fred Kramer, PhD
    Professor, Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Comparative genetic and transcriptome analyses of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Endometrioid Endometrial Carcinoma highlight common molecular and biological processes
    OCT 05, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Comparative genetic and transcriptome analyses of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Endometrioid Endometrial Carcinoma highlight common molecular and biological processes

    Jean-Noel Billaud, PhD
    Senior Principal Scientist, QIAGEN Digital Insights
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Immunotherapy of Cancer Using Genetically-Enhanced T Cells

    Michael Milone, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director, Toxicology Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania Perelman Scho
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Unraveling the Complexities of Immuno-Oncology with 3D Biologyâ„¢ Technology

    Joseph M Beechem, PhD
    Senior Vice President of Research and Development, Nan...
    Alessandra Cesano, MD, PhD
    Chief Medical Officer, NanoString Technologies
  • Keynote Speaker: Biomarkers, Risk Stratification; Newly diagnosed prosate cancer and markers for post radical prostetectomy
    OCT 05, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Speaker: Biomarkers, Risk Stratification; Newly diagnosed prosate cancer and markers for post radical prostetectomy

    David Albala, MD
    Chief of Urology at Crouse Hospital and Medical Director for Associated Medical Professionals
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Speaker: How to meet the challenge of counting and analyzing tumor cells circulating in the peripheral blood

    Giacinto Scoles, PhD
    Donner Professor of Science and Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Melanoma - View from the Frontlines of Immunotherapy and Precision Medicine

    Louise Perkins, PhD
    Chief Science Officer, Melanoma Research Alliance
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Unique molecular indices (UMI) and their application in detecting novel gene fusions and gene expression and genetic variation

    Samuel Rulli, PhD
    Senior Global Product Manager, RNA Profiling , QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Therapeutics
  • OCT 05, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Melanoma - View from the Frontlines of Immunotherapy and Precision Medicine

    Louise Perkins, PhD
    Chief Science Officer, Melanoma Research Alliance
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Immunotherapy of Cancer Using Genetically-Enhanced T Cells

    Michael Milone, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director, Toxicology Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania Perelman Scho
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 06, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Speaker - PD-1 cancer immunotherapy

    Gordon J. Freeman, PhD
    Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Screening, Diagnosis, and Early Detection
  • OCT 05, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Unique molecular indices (UMI) and their application in detecting novel gene fusions and gene expression and genetic variation

    Samuel Rulli, PhD
    Senior Global Product Manager, RNA Profiling , QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Speaker: How to meet the challenge of counting and analyzing tumor cells circulating in the peripheral blood

    Giacinto Scoles, PhD
    Donner Professor of Science and Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Sensitive and Specific, Multiplex, Real-Time PCR Assays for Assessing the Abundance of Extremely Rare Mutations Associated with Cancer Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapy

    Fred Kramer, PhD
    Professor, Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 06, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Detection and analysis of circulating tumor cells - challenges and solutions

    Siegfried Hauch
    Director, Liquid Biopsy and Site Manager, QIAGEN Hannover Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Imaging and Treatment
  • Keynote Speaker: Biomarkers, Risk Stratification; Newly diagnosed prosate cancer and markers for post radical prostetectomy
    OCT 05, 2016 9:00 AM PDT

    Keynote Speaker: Biomarkers, Risk Stratification; Newly diagnosed prosate cancer and markers for post radical prostetectomy

    David Albala, MD
    Chief of Urology at Crouse Hospital and Medical Director for Associated Medical Professionals
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 1:30 PM PDT

    Prostate Cancer Screening Update-2016

    Judd W Moul, MD, FACS
    James H Semans MD Professor of Surgery, Division of Urologic Surgery, Director, Duke Prostate Center, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 06, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Precision Genomics and Precision Medicine for Immuno-Oncology

    Erin N Newburn, MS, PhD
    Manager, Field Applications Scientist, Personalis, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Cancer Biology
  • Comparative genetic and transcriptome analyses of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Endometrioid Endometrial Carcinoma highlight common molecular and biological processes
    OCT 05, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Comparative genetic and transcriptome analyses of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Endometrioid Endometrial Carcinoma highlight common molecular and biological processes

    Jean-Noel Billaud, PhD
    Senior Principal Scientist, QIAGEN Digital Insights
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 05, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Unraveling the Complexities of Immuno-Oncology with 3D Biologyâ„¢ Technology

    Joseph M Beechem, PhD
    Senior Vice President of Research and Development, Nan...
    Alessandra Cesano, MD, PhD
    Chief Medical Officer, NanoString Technologies
  • OCT 05, 2016 12:00 PM PDT

    Label-free FTIR imaging to distinguish malignant from non-malignant tissues

    Klaus Gerwert, PhD
    Chair of Biophysics and Professor, Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Biophysics, Bochum, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 06, 2016 6:00 AM PDT

    Heterogeneity and Resistance Mechanisms in Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Raoul S. Concepcion, MD, FACS
    Chief Science Officer, U.S. Urology Partners, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • OCT 06, 2016 7:30 AM PDT

    Keynote Speaker: Reference Component Analysis of Single Cell Transcriptomes Reveals Cellular Heterogeneity in Colorectal Cancer

    Shyam Prabhakar, PhD
    Associate Director/Integrative Genomics and Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Decoding human tumors and healthy tissue with mass cytometry
    OCT 06, 2016 10:30 AM PDT

    Decoding human tumors and healthy tissue with mass cytometry

    Jonathan M Irish, PhD
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology Scientific Director of the Cancer & Immunology Core and the Mass Cytometry Center of Excellence
    BIOGRAPHY
OCT 5 - 6 2016

Cancer Research & Oncology Week Virtual Event Series 2016

The 4th Annual Event in the Cancer Research & Oncology Week Virtual Event Series is now On Demand! This premier cancer research conference makes it easier and more cost-effective for the cancer research community to come together online to learn about recent advances in cancer research. The conference has proven to be a great success in disseminating knowledge and encouraging collaboration and connections between colleagues. View this conference at no charge, at any time!

Cancer Research & Oncology 2016 features informative presentations from keynote speakers and experts including; Dr. Giacinto Scoles, Dr. Gordon Freeman, Dr. Louise Perkins, Dr. David Albala, Dr. Judd Moul, And Dr. Raoul Concepcion.  Check out the virtual conference to view these and other great speakers at your convenience.

Watch this video to learn about this exciting conference!

Our virtual conference allows you to participate in a global setting with no travel or cost to you. You can participate in exactly those parts which you are interested in and be back at your desk or bench in an instant. Virtual events remove time and place restrictions and ensure that everyone who wants to participate can do so. This virtual conference also offers increased reach for the global cancer community with a high degree of interaction through live-streaming video and chat sessions.

Topics for this year’s conference include:

  • Innovations in Cancer Immunotherapy
  • Targeted, Precision Cancer Therapies for Advanced Disease
  • Detection of Rare Cancer Mutations and Implications for Treatment
  • Novel Systems to Monitor Disease and Better Predict Clinical Outcomes for Cancer Patients
  • Mini-Symposiums on Prostate cancer, Breast cancer, Brain cancer, and the kRAS initiative

Continuing Education
By participating in this virtual event and watching webcast presentations, you can earn Free Continuing Education (CE) and/or Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. To earn educational credits, you must view an entire presentation. Following the presentation you must click on the educational credit link provided for that particular speaker and follow the required process. Once you have completed the process, you will receive a certificate for the educational credit.

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Speakers
  • Giacinto Scoles, PhD

    Donner Professor of Science and Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Gordon J. Freeman, PhD

    Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
    BIOGRAPHY
  • David Albala, MD

    Chief of Urology at Crouse Hospital and Medical Director for Associated Medical Professionals
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Raoul S. Concepcion, MD, FACS

    Chief Science Officer, U.S. Urology Partners, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Shyam Prabhakar, PhD

    Associate Director/Integrative Genomics and Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Fred Kramer, PhD

    Professor, Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Judd W Moul, MD, FACS

    James H Semans MD Professor of Surgery, Division of Urologic Surgery, Director, Duke Prostate Center, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Louise Perkins, PhD

    Chief Science Officer, Melanoma Research Alliance
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael Milone, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director, Toxicology Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania Perelman Scho
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rachel Bagni, PhD

    Target Biology Group Lead, National Cancer Institute
  • Jean-Noel Billaud, PhD

    Senior Principal Scientist, QIAGEN Digital Insights
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Joseph M Beechem, PhD

    Senior Vice President of Research and Development, NanoString Technologies
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Alessandra Cesano, MD, PhD

    Chief Medical Officer, NanoString Technologies
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Klaus Gerwert, PhD

    Chair of Biophysics and Professor, Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Biophysics, Bochum, Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Siegfried Hauch

    Director, Liquid Biopsy and Site Manager, QIAGEN Hannover Germany
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jonathan M Irish, PhD

    Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology Scientific Director of the Cancer & Immunology Core and the Mass Cytometry Center of Excellence
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lincoln Nadauld, MD, PhD

    Executive Director of Precision Medicine & Precision Genomics, Intermountain Healthcare
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Erin N Newburn, MS, PhD

    Manager, Field Applications Scientist, Personalis, Inc.
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Samuel Rulli, PhD

    Senior Global Product Manager, RNA Profiling , QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY

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Speakers


  • Giacinto Scoles, PhD

    Giacinto Scoles, PhD

    Donner Professor of Science and Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Gordon J. Freeman, PhD

    Gordon J. Freeman, PhD

    Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

    BIOGRAPHY
  • David Albala, MD

    David Albala, MD

    Chief of Urology at Crouse Hospital and Medical Director for Associated Medical Professionals

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Raoul S. Concepcion, MD, FACS

    Raoul S. Concepcion, MD, FACS

    Chief Science Officer, U.S. Urology Partners, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Shyam Prabhakar, PhD

    Shyam Prabhakar, PhD

    Associate Director/Integrative Genomics and Group Leader, Genome Institute of Singapore

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Fred Kramer, PhD

    Fred Kramer, PhD

    Professor, Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Judd W Moul, MD, FACS

    Judd W Moul, MD, FACS

    James H Semans MD Professor of Surgery, Division of Urologic Surgery, Director, Duke Prostate Center, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Louise Perkins, PhD

    Louise Perkins, PhD

    Chief Science Officer, Melanoma Research Alliance

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael Milone, PhD

    Michael Milone, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director, Toxicology Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania Perelman Scho

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Rachel Bagni, PhD

    Rachel Bagni, PhD

    Target Biology Group Lead, National Cancer Institute

  • Jean-Noel Billaud, PhD

    Jean-Noel Billaud, PhD

    Senior Principal Scientist, QIAGEN Digital Insights

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Joseph M Beechem, PhD

    Joseph M Beechem, PhD

    Senior Vice President of Research and Development, NanoString Technologies

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Alessandra Cesano, MD, PhD

    Alessandra Cesano, MD, PhD

    Chief Medical Officer, NanoString Technologies

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Klaus Gerwert, PhD

    Klaus Gerwert, PhD

    Chair of Biophysics and Professor, Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Biophysics, Bochum, Germany

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Siegfried Hauch

    Siegfried Hauch

    Director, Liquid Biopsy and Site Manager, QIAGEN Hannover Germany

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jonathan M Irish, PhD

    Jonathan M Irish, PhD

    Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology Scientific Director of the Cancer & Immunology Core and the Mass Cytometry Center of Excellence

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Lincoln Nadauld, MD, PhD

    Lincoln Nadauld, MD, PhD

    Executive Director of Precision Medicine & Precision Genomics, Intermountain Healthcare

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Erin N Newburn, MS, PhD

    Erin N Newburn, MS, PhD

    Manager, Field Applications Scientist, Personalis, Inc.

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Samuel Rulli, PhD

    Samuel Rulli, PhD

    Senior Global Product Manager, RNA Profiling , QIAGEN

    BIOGRAPHY

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Program Committee

To download the Program Committee brochure here.


  • R. Claudio Aguilar, Ph.D.

    Dr. Aguilar obtained his PhD degree in Immunochemistry from the School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Aguilar pursued his post-doctoral training at the National institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD in the lab of the well-known cell ...

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  • Judd Moul

    Judd W. Moul is James H. Semans, MD Professor of Surgery, Division of Urologic Surgery, and Director of the Duke Prostate Center, Duke Cancer Institute at Duke University Medical Center. Prior to joining Duke, he was Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of ...

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  • Ariel Louwrier

    President & CEO of StressMarq Biosciences Inc., a research reagent company with primary product lines in neurodegenerative diseases and cellular stress based in Victoria (BC), Canada. Successful Senior Scientific Business Executive with demonstrated expertise growing markets ...

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  • Martin Latterich

    The discovery of proteinaceous disease biomarkers and their clinical validation is critically important for the enablement of molecular diagnostics and ultimately, precision medicine. In spite of the importance of biomarkers, research done in the last two decades has yielded ...

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  • Fred Russell Kramer, PhD

    Fred Russell Kramer is Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the New Jersey Medical School, and has been a Principal Investigator at the Public Health Research Institute for the past 25 years. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1964 and received his ...

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  • Eric Klein

    Eric A. Klein, MD, is the Chairman of the Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute and a staff member in the Taussig Cancer Institute at Cleveland Clinic. His clinical interests are cancers of the prostate, testis and kidney. For several years, including the current edition, Dr ...

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  • Rajan Gupta

    Dr. Rajan T. Gupta, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Radiology in the Division of Abdominal Imaging at Duke University Medical Center, as well as the Director of the Abdominal Imaging Fellowship Program and a Faculty physician in the Duke Cancer Institute. Since 2009, he has been ...

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  • Josip Blonder

    Dr. Blonder leads the Clinical Proteomics Group at the CRTP/FNL. FNL is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center operated by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., for the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In 1978, Dr. Blonder received his M.D. at the Rijeka University ...

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  • Antonio Baines

    Dr. Antonio T. Baines is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and an adjunct professor in the Department of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill. He earned a ...

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  • David Albala

    Dr. David M. Albala graduated with a geology degree from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He completed his medical school training at Michigan State University and went on to complete his surgical residency at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Following this, Dr ...

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  • Thomas Polascik

    Thomas J. Polascik, M.D. is Professor in the Duke Cancer Institute, the Department of Surgery at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Dr. Polascik trained at the Brady Urological Institute, the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Maryland. After finishing his residency ...

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