Distinguished Lecturer: Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, FACSM, FTOS, FNAK*
Date of lecture: December 15, 2023
Lecture Title: “Exercise is Medicine in Oncology: Implementing Based on Solid Evidence”

Distinguished Lecturer: Christopher Flowers, MD, MS, FASCO*
Date of lecture: November 10, 2023
Lecture Title: “Novel Approaches and Future Directions for First-Line Therapy for DLBCL”

Distinguished Lecturer: Camille Ragin, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Date of lecture: September 15, 2023
Lecture Title: Genomic Ancestry and Head and Neck Cancer

Distinguished Lecturer: Johannes Walter, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: May 26, 2023
Lecture Title: “AlphaFold as a Mechanistic Discovery Tool: A Case Study from Vertebrate DNA Replication”

Distinguished Lecturer: Ravindra Majeti, M.D., Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: April 28, 2023
Lecture Title: "Stem Cells and Reprogramming in Human Acute Leukemia"

Distinguished Lecturer: Alana Welm, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: April 7, 2023
Lecture Title: "Immune-Mediated Regulation of Breast Cancer Metastatic Outgrowth"

Distinguished Lecturer: Monica Baskin, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: March 10, 2023
Lecture Title: “Key Steps to Eliminating Cancer Disparities”

Distinguished Lecturer: Mara Sherman, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: March 3, 2023
Lecture Title: “Mechanisms and Consequences of Pancreatic Cancer Stromal Evolution”

Distinguished Lecturer: Daniel Krappmann, Prof. Dr.*
Date of lecture: February 24, 2023
Lecture Title: “Combining Precision Oncology and Immunotherapy by Targeting the MALT1 Protease”

Distinguished Lecturer: Jing Yang, Ph.D.
Date of lecture: January 20, 2023
Lecture Title: “Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity in Carcinoma Metastasis”

Distinguished Lecturer: Himisha Beltran, M.D.*
Date of lecture: January 13, 2023
Lecture Title: “Lineage Plasticity as a Mechanism of Prostate Cancer Hormone Therapy Resistance”

Distinguished Lecturer: Melissa Davis, Ph.D.
Date of lecture: December 16, 2022
Lecture Title: “Resolving Race vs Ancestry in Breast Cancer Disparities”

Distinguished Lecturer: Sarah Gehlert, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: October 28, 2022
Lecture Title: “Developing Transdisciplinary Relationships in Cancer Studies: The Whole is Greater than the Sum of the Parts”

Distinguished Lecturer: Yatrick Shah, Ph.D.
Date of lecture: October 21, 2022
Lecture Title: “Microenvironmental Bugs and Gases in Colorectal Cancer”

Distinguished Lecturer: Maximiliano D'Angelo, Ph.D.
Date of lecture: September 9, 2022
Lecture Title: “Nuclear Pore Complexes in Tumor Development and Cancer Therapies”

Distinguished Lecturer: Raphael E. Pollock, MD, PhD, FACS*
Date of lecture: June 24, 2022
Lecture Title: “Contemporary Perspectives in Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma”

Distinguished Lecturer: Robert J. Coffey, M.D.*
Date of lecture: May 27, 2022
Lecture Title: "Recent Advances in Studies of Extracellular Vesicles and Nanoparticles"

Distinguished Lecturer: David Tuveson, M.D., Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: May 6, 2022
Lecture Title: "Defeating the 7 Deadly Hallmarks of Pancreatic Cancer"

Distinguished Lecturer: Phillipe Armand, M.D., Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: April 1, 2022
Lecture Title: "Checkpoint Failure in Hodgkin Lymphoma"

Distinguished Lecturer: Hans-Guido Wendel, M.D.
Date of lecture: March 18, 2022
Lecture Title: "Biological Vulnerabilities in Lymphoma"

Distinguished Lecturer: George Demetri, M.D.*
Date of lecture: March 11, 2022
Lecture Title: "Lessons to Accelerate Development of Anticancer Therapies from GIST and Other Sarcomas"

Distinguished Lecturer: Nancy Krieger, Ph.D.
Date of lecture: March 4, 2022
Lecture Title: "Structural Racism, Cancer, and the People’s Health: History & Context Matters"

Distinguished Lecturer: Eva Corey, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: February 11, 2022
Lecture Title: "Prostate Cancer Testosterone: Friend or Foe"

Distinguished Lecturer: John P. Leonard, M.D.*
Date of lecture: January 28, 2022
Lecture Title: "Progress and Challenges in Precision Therapy for Lymphoma"

Distinguished Lecturer: Rong Li, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: January 21, 2022
Lecture Title: "Breaking Down Cancer Defense Line Against Anti-Tumor Immune Infiltration"

Distinguished Lecturer: Anthony Mato, MD, MSCE*
Date of lecture: January 7, 2022
Lecture Title: "Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: The Modern Advancement of Techniques in Care"

Distinguished Lecturer: Peter Nelson, M.D.*
Date of lecture: December 17, 2021
Lecture Title: "Cancer Therapy Resistance: Anticipating and Targeting New Species Evolving Through Treatment Pressures"

Distinguished Lecturer: Jaroslaw Maciejewski, M.D., Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: October 8, 2021
Lecture Title: "Pathogenetic Implications of TET2 Deficiency for Synthetic Lethal Strategies"

Distinguished Lecturer: Dmitry Gabrilovich, M.D., Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: September 17, 2021
Lecture Title: "Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells in Regulation of Immune Responses and Tumor Progression"

Distinguished Lecturer: Jen Jen Yeh, M.D.*
Date of lecture: June 18, 2021
Lecture Title: "Pancreatic Cancer Subtyping for the Clinic"

Distinguished Lecturer: Felix Feng, M.D.*
Date of lecture: June 11, 2021
Lecture Title: "Identifying Molecular Drivers of Metastatic Prostate Cancer Through Clinical and Functional Genomic Approaches"

Distinguished Lecturer: Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon)*
Date of lecture: May 14, 2021
Lecture Title: "RAS Proteins in Human Disease"

Distinguished Lecturer: Akiko Shimamura, M.D., Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: April 16, 2021
Lecture Title: "Molecular Mechanisms of Clonal Evolution in Bone Marrow Failure"

Distinguished Lecturer: John Carpten, Ph.D.
Date of lecture: March 26, 2021
Lecture Title: “The Impact of Population and Tumor Heterogeneity in Cancer Genome Science”

Distinguished Lecturer: Sarki Abdulkadir, M.D., Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: March 12, 2021
Lecture Title: "Small Molecule MYC Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy"

Distinguished Lecturer: Rugang Zhang, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: February 26, 2021
Lecture Title: "Epigenetic Approaches to Epithelial Ovarian Cancer"

Distinguished Lecturer: Aimee Edinger, V.M.D./Ph.D.
Date of lecture: February 19, 2021
Lecture Title: “Leveraging Sphingolipids to Modulate Metabolism in Cancer and Other Diseases”

Distinguished Lecturer: David Virshup, M.D.*
Date of lecture: February 5, 2021
Lecture Title: "Upstream Regulation of Wnt Signaling: Biology and Therapy"

Distinguished Lecturer: Andrea Califano, Dr.*
Date of lecture: January 22, 2021
Lecture Title: "Elucidating and Targeting Mechanisms of Single Cell State Maintenance"

Distinguished Lecturer: Kunle Odunsi, M.D., Ph.D.
Date of lecture: January 15, 2021
Lecture Title: "New Insights on Overcoming Innate and Adaptive Immune Resistance in Ovarian Cancer"

Distinguished Lecturer: Sarat Chandarlapaty, M.D., Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: November 20, 2020
Lecture Title: "Challenges and Opportunities in Targeted Therapy of Breast Cancer"

Distinguished Lecturer: Aaron Ring, M.D., Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: November 13, 2020
Lecture Title: "Engineered Cytokines in Cancer Immunotherapy"

Distinguished Lecturer: Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, PhD, RD*
Date of lecture: November 6, 2020
Lecture Title: "Creating Scalable Behavioral Interventions to Improve the Health of Cancer Survivors"

Distinguished Lecturer: Deborah Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN*
Date of lecture: September 25, 2020
Lecture Title: "Cancer Survivorship: Unmet Needs and Research Priorities"

Distinguished Lecturer: Yibin Kang, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: February 7, 2020
Lecture Title: “Identification and Therapeutic Targeting of a Breast Cancer Metastasis Gene"

Distinguished Lecturer: Paul Jacobsen, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: January 31, 2020
Lecture Title: “Improving Cancer Care and Outcomes: The Role of Healthcare Delivery Research"

Distinguished Lecturer: Karlene Cimprich, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: January 24, 2020
Lecture Title: “The Causes and Consequences of Replication Stress"

Distinguished Lecturer: J. Silvio Gutkind, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: January 17, 2020
Lecture Title: “Targeting the mTOR and Hippo Signaling Networks in Cancer: Opportunities for Multimodal Precision Immunotherapies"

Distinguished Lecturer: Cristina Antonescu, M.D.*
Date of lecture: January 10, 2020
Lecture Title: “Recent Advances in the Molecular Classification of Mesenchymal Tumors"

Distinguished Lecturer: Scarlett Lin Gomez, PhD, MPH*
Date of lecture: December 13, 2019
Lecture Title: “Building Infrastructures to Address Multilevel Social Determinants of Health Disparities"

Distinguished Lecturer: Everett Vokes, MD*
Date of lecture: November 22, 2019
Lecture Title: “De-escalation of Treatment Intensity in Head and Neck Cancer”

Distinguished Lecturer: Marianne Sadar, PhD*
Date of lecture: November 15, 2019
Lecture Title: “Drugging the Undruggable: Developing a New Therapy for Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer”

Distinguished Lecturer: Daniel Durocher, PhD*
Date of lecture: November 8, 2019
Lecture Title: “Charting the Human DNA Damage Response“

Distinguished Lecturer: Stanley R. Hamilton, MD, FCAP, AGAF*
Date of lecture: November 1, 2019
Lecture Title: “Precision Oncology. Really?”

Distinguished Lecturer: Ie-Ming Shih, MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: September 20, 2019
Lecture Title: “The Origin of Ovarian Cancer Precursor Species"

Distinguished Lecturer: Alex Kentsis, MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: September 13, 2019
Lecture Title: “Jumping Genes and Proteomics for New Cancer Therapies"

Distinguished Lecturer: Paolo Sassone-Corsi, PhD*
Date of lecture: May 10, 2019
Lecture Title: “The Epigenetics Language of Circadian Metabolism"

Distinguished Lecturer: Cathrine Hoyo, PhD*
Date of lecture: April 5, 2019
Lecture Title: “Trace Metals, Liver Cancer Susceptibility and Epigenomics"

Distinguished Lecturer: Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD*
Date of lecture: March 15, 2019
Lecture Title: “Targeting the Stem Cell Phenotype of Aggressive Cancer Cells”

Distinguished Lecturer: J. Michael Oakes, PhD*
Date of lecture: February 22, 2019
Lecture Title: “Community-Engaged Research Leadership: The RWJF IRL Program”

Distinguished Lecturer: Eirini Papapetrou, MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: February 1, 2019
Lecture Title: “Modeling Leukemia Stem Cells and Clonal Evolution with Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells”

Distinguished Lecturer: Iman Osman, MD*
Date of lecture: December 7, 2018
Lecture Title: “Moving Forward in the New Era of Effective Melanoma Systemic Therapy”

Distinguished Lecturer: Jonathan D. Licht, MD*
Date of lecture: November 2, 2018
Lecture Title: “Disorders of Histone Methylation in Hematological Malignancy”

Distinguished Lecturer: Marc Ladanyi, MD*
Date of lecture: October 19, 2018
Lecture Title: “Clinical Tumor: Normal Genomic Profiling to Guide Patient Selection for Targeted and Immune Therapies and Screen for Germline Cancer Predisposition and Clonal Hematopoiesis”

Distinguished Lecturer: Maciej Wiznerowicz, MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: October 5, 2018
Lecture Title: “Cancer Stemness as Hallmark of Oncogenic Progression”

Distinguished Lecturer: Maha Hussain, MD*
Date of lecture: April 27, 2018
Lecture Title: “Translating Biology into Therapeutics in Prostate Cancer: Progress & Ongoing Discoveries”

Distinguished Lecturer: Tyler Curiel, MD*
Date of lecture: April 20, 2018
Lecture Title: "Novel Tumor Intrinsic PD-L1/PD-1 Signals: Revising the Immune Checkpoint Paradigm"

Distinguished Lecturer: David DeNardo, PhD
Date of lecture: March 30, 2018
Lecture Title: “Targeting the pancreatic tumor microenvironment to unlock response to immunotherapy”

Distinguished Lecturer: Susann Brady-Kalnay, PhD*
Date of lecture: March 23, 2018
Lecture Title: “Detection of tumors by PTPmu molecular imaging agents”

Distinguished Lecturer: Louis M. Staudt, MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: March 9, 2018
Lecture Title: “Precision Lymphoma Therapies Guided by Genomics”

Distinguished Lecturer: Jennifer Grandis, MD*
Date of lecture: March 2, 2018
Lecture Title: “Head and Neck Cancer Precision Medicine”

Distinguished Lecturer: James Brugarolas, MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: February 16, 2018
Lecture Title: “Molecular Genetics, Biology and Translation”

Distinguished Lecturer: Samuel Achilefu, PhD*
Date of lecture: February 9, 2018
Lecture Title: “High Throughput Surgery Using Cancer Goggles”

Distinguished Lecturer: John E. Dick, PhD*
Date of lecture: February 1, 2018
Lecture Title: “Stem Cells in Leukemia Matter from the Beginning to the End”

Distinguished Lecturer: Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD*
Date of lecture: January 26, 2018
Lecture Title: "Understanding and Targeting Spliceosomal Gene Mutations in Cancer"

Distinguished Lecturer: Iannis Aifantis, PhD*
Date of lecture: January 19, 2018
Lecture Title: “Transcriptional and Post-Translational Regulation of Stress Response in Cancer”

Distinguished Lecturer: Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD, RD*
Date of lecture: January 12, 2018
Lecture Title: “Obesity and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer: Biological Mechanisms and Clinical Applications”

Distinguished Lecturer: Scott Woodman, MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: January 5, 2018
Lecture Title: “A Comprehensive and Integrated Analysis of Uveal Melanoma”

Distinguished Lecturer: Oliver McDonald MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: December 15, 2017
Lecture Title: “Metabolic-Epigenomic Reprogramming During Pancreatic Cancer Progression"

Distinguished Lecturer: Danny Welch, PhD*
Date of lecture: October 27, 2017
Lecture Title: “Breast Cancer Metastasis: Role of Host and Tumor Cell Mitochondrial Genetics”

Distinguished Lecturer: Xosé R. Bustelo, PhD
Date of lecture: June 16, 2017
Lecture Title: “Bivalent Roles of Vav Oncoproteins in Cancer: Genetic Evidence and Potential Translation to Human Settings"

Distinguished Lecturer: Henry Rodriguez, PhD
Date of lecture: May 26, 2017
Lecture Title: “Omics Convergence in Cancer Research - Advances in Biology and Precision Medicine”

Distinguished Lecturer: Massimo Loda, MD*
Date of lecture: April 28, 2017
Lecture Title: “Metabolic Dependencies in Prostate cancer: Regulation and Targeting of Lipogenesis”

Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Stephen J Weiss
Date of lecture: April 25, 2017
Lecture Title: “Breast Cancer Initiation & Progression: Interplay of Transcription Factor and Proteolytic Effector Networks”

Distinguished Lecturer: Ajay Goel, PhD
Date of lecture: April 18, 2017
Lecture Title: “Noncoding RNAs as Liquid Biopsy Biomarkers in Gastrointestinal Cancer”

Distinguished Lecturer: Yoshiaki Ito, MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: March 24, 2017
Lecture Title: “Emerging Roles of RUNX Transcription Factors”

Distinguished Lecturer: Daniel Starczynowski, PhD*
Date of lecture: March 17, 2017
Lecture Title: “Modeling and Targeting Innate Immune Signaling Pathways in Hematologic Malignancies”

Distinguished Lecturer: Ross Levine, MD*
Date of lecture: March 3, 2017
Lecture Title: “Role of mutations in epigenetic regulators in myeloid leukemogenesis and targeted therapy”

Distinguished Lecturer: Ulrich Steidl, MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: February 17, 2017
Lecture Title: “Mechanisms of Formation and Progression of Pre-Cancerous Stem Cells”

Distinguished Lecturer: Dean Felsher, MD, PhD*
Date of lecture: February 10, 2017
Lecture Title: “Oncogene Addiction and the Immune Response”

Distinguished Lecturer: Lee Helman, MD*
Date of lecture: February 3, 2017
Lecture Title: “Identification of new targets for the treatment of Ewing’s Sarcoma”

Distinguished Lecturer: Craig Moskowitz, MD*
Date of lecture: January 20, 2017
Lecture Title: “Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma 2017”

Distinguished Lecturer: Lee Ellis, MD, FACS, FASCO*
Date of lecture: November 18, 2016
Lecture Title: “The Erosion of Research Integrity: The Need For a Culture Change”

Distinguished Lecturer: Mario Capecchi, PhD*
Date of lecture: November 11, 2016
Lecture Title: “Gene Targeting into the 21st Century: Mouse Models of Human Disease from Cancer to Neuropsychiatric Disorders”

Distinguished Lecturer: Dennis Weisenburger, MD*
Date of lecture: October 14, 2016
Lecture Title: “New Insight into Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma”

Distinguished Lecturer: Rick Kittles, PhD*
Date of lecture: September 23, 2016
Lecture Title: “The Use of Genetic Ancestry to Understand Cancer Disparities”