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Sylvester’s Distinguished Guest Lecture Series provides a forum for outstanding clinical and translational researcher guest lecturers to interact and ultimately collaborate with Sylvester faculty. The focus of the series is to bring basic science and clinical researchers together to discuss recent advances in the understanding and treatment of human cancer – a realization of the “bench to bedside” ideal. The audience is typically a mix of clinicians, clinical researchers, basic scientists, and physician scientists.

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 Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) channel on Office 365 Stream by searching for DLS (login required).

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Distinguished Lecturer: Andrea Schietinger, Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: June 7, 2024
Lecture Title: “T Cells in Cancer and Autoimmunity”

Distinguished Lecturer: Dan Landau, M.D., Ph.D.
Date of lecture: April 19, 2024
Lecture Title: “Somatic Evolution - From Basic Insights to Translational Impact”

Distinguished Lecturer: Padmanee Sharma, M.D., Ph.D.*
Date of lecture: March 8, 2024
Lecture Title: “Integrating Clinical and Laboratory Research to Identify Mechanisms of Response and Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Therapy”

Distinguished Lecturer: Sally Barrington*
Date of lecture: March 1, 2024
Lecture Title: “Horizons in Lymphoma Imaging”

Distinguished Lecturer: Rolf Brekken, Ph.D.
Date of lecture: February 16, 2024
Lecture Title: “Growth Factor Pathways That Drive Immune Evasion and Metastasis”

Distinguished Lecturer: Mary Armanios, M.D.
Date of lecture: February 9, 2024
Lecture Title: “Telomeres, Time and the Genetic Basis of Cellular Immortality”

Distinguished Lecturer: Feng Yue, Ph.D.
Date of lecture: January 26, 2024
Lecture Title: “Enhancer-hijacking and 3D Genome Alteration in Cancer”

Distinguished Lecturer: : Lewis Cantley, Ph.D.
Date of lecture: January 12, 2024
Lecture Title: “Developing an Atlas of the Substrate Specificity of All Human Protein-Tyrosine Kinases”

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