Annual Zubrod Memorial Lecture & Sylvester Cancer Research Poster Session
For more information please contact the Office of Education & Training at zubrod2025.oet@miami.edu or 305-243-1539
Distinguished Lecturer:
For UM faculty, staff and students who would like to view the video of these lectures, please click on the ones with (*) next to the name of the presenter. You can also visit our Zubrod channel on Office 365 Stream by searching for Zubrod (login required).
Zubrod Lecturer: Tak W. Mak, OC, PhD, DSc (Hons), FRSC, FRS
Year of lecture: 2025
Lecture Title: "Beyond immune checkpoint blockade: emerging strategies"
Zubrod Lecturer: Laurie H. Glimcher, MD
Year of lecture: 2023
Lecture Title: "Identification of RIOK2 as a Master Regulator of Human Blood Development"
Zubrod Lecturer: David Baltimore, PhD*
Year of lecture: 2021
Lecture Title: "Perspectives on Cancer Research"
Zubrod Lecturer: Karen Heather Vousden, PhD, CBE, FRS, FRSE
Year of lecture: 2020
Lecture Title: "Metabolic Control of ROS and Tumour Progression"
Zubrod Lecturer: Titia de Lange, PhD
Year of lecture: 2019
Lecture Title: "Telomeres and the DNA damage response"
Zubrod Lecturer: James P. Allison, PhD*
Year of lecture: 2018
Lecture Title: “Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: New Insights, Opportunities, and Prospects for Cures”
Zubrod Lecturer: Carl June, MD*
Year of lecture: 2017
Lecture Title: “Self-driving CARs: Safer Cancer Therapy”
Zubrod Lecturer: Robert A. Weinberg, PhD
Year of lecture: 2016
Lecture Title: “Mechanism of Carcinoma Malignant Progression”
Zubrod Lecturer: Arul M. Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD
Year of lecture: 2015
Lecture Title: “The Application of Integrative Sequencing for Precision Oncology”
Zubrod Lecturer: Kenneth C. Anderson, MD
Year of lecture: 2014
Lecture Title: “New Insights into Therapeutic Targets in Multiple Myeloma”
Zubrod Lecturer: James R. Downing, MD
Year of lecture: 2013
Lecture Title: “The Pediatric Cancer Genome Project – Implications of Clinical Medicine”
Zubrod Lecturer: Ronald Levy, MD
Year of lecture: 2012
Lecture Title: “Immunotherapy of Lymphoma”
Zubrod Lecturer: Vishva Dixit, MD
Year of lecture: 2011
Lecture Title: “Lessons from Death Signaling”
Zubrod Lecturer: Mario R. Capecchi, PhD
Year of lecture: 2010
Lecture Title: “Modeling Human Cancer in the Mouse”
Zubrod Lecturer: Bert W. O’Malley, MD
Year of lecture: 2009
Lecture Title: “Nuclear Receptor Coactivators: ‘Master Genes’ and Targets of Disease”
Zubrod Lecturer: Tyler Jacks, PhD
Year of lecture: 2008
Lecture Title: “Modeling Cancer in the Mouse”
Zubrod Lecturer: Susan Band Horwitz, PhD
Year of lecture: 2007
Lecture Title: “Taxol, Tublin and Tumors: Challenges in the New Era of Chemotherapy”
Zubrod Lecturer: Judah Folkman, MD
Year of lecture: 2006
Lecture Title: “Lessons from Antiangiogenic Therapy and Other Diseases”
Zubrod Lecturer: Rainer F. Storb, MD
Year of lecture: 2005
Lecture Title: “Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation 1965-2005: Advancing Knowledge, Saving Lives”
Zubrod Lecturer: Carlos L. Arteaga, MD
Year of lecture: 2004
Lecture Title: “From Sarcoma Growth Factor to TGF-beta Targeted Therapeutics in Human Neoplasia”
Zubrod Lecturer: Ralph M. Steinman, MD
Year of lecture: 2003
Lecture Title: “The Control of Immunity and Tolerance by Dendritic Cells”
Zubrod Lecturer: Stanley Korsmeyer, MD
Year of lecture: 2002
Lecture Title: “Mitochondrial Gateway to Apoptosis”
Zubrod Lecturer: Craig B. Thompson, MD
Year of lecture: 2001
Lecture Title: “Does Apoptosis Play a Role in the Etiology or Treatment of Cancer”
Zubrod Lecturer: Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD
Year of lecture: 2000
Lecture Title: “The Development of Cancer Vaccines”