Plenary Speakers
Douglas R. Green
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, TN
Andrey Loboda
Director at Merck
Boston
Robert Weinberg
Founding Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Director, MIT Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology, Cambridge
Raghu Kalluri
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX
Dae Yoon Chi
CEO, FutureChem Co Ltd
Korea
A Thomas Look
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School, MA
Ali Shilatifard
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL
Keynote Speakers
Li Peng
Chief Scientific Officer at Palleon Pharmaceuticals, Boston
Benjamin Haibe-Kains
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network. Canada
X. Shirley Liu
Co-founder & CE
GV20 Therapeutics, MA
Michael B Yaffe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
Ji-Xin Cheng
Boston University Photonics Center
MA
Alan D. D'Andrea
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
MA
Kaifu Chen
Harvard Medical School
MA
Speakers
Constantine S Mitsiades
Harvard University
MA
Khosrow Kashfi
The City College of New York
NY
Jing Hong Wang
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA
Suresh Ambudkar
NCI, National Institutes of Health
MD
Eric W. Humke
IGM Biosciences, Inc.,
CA
Alice Cheung
Duke-NUS Medical School
Singapore
Aljona Malyukova
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
Amanda C. Poholek
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine PA
Andrés Blanco
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, PA
Anthony Faber
VCU Massey Cancer Center
VA
Carla Van Den Berg
The University of Texas at Austin
TX
Christopher A. Pennell
University of Minnesota
MN
David Entenberg
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
NY
Dawn S Nin
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Degen Zhuo
BioTailor Inc
FL
Di Zhao
MD Anderson Cancer Center
TX
Dimitris Anastassiou
Columbia University
NY
Duxin Sun
The University of Michigan
MI
Edward V. Prochownik
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
PA
Eran Andrechek
Michigan State University
MI
Fahri Saatcioglu
University of Oslo
Norway
Giorgia Pastorin
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Guangwen "Gary" Ren
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, ME
Hannah Knochelmann
Stanford University
CA
Jason T. George
Texas A&M University
TX
Jenny Zilberberg
Head of Research, Imvax
Inc., PA
Jessica E. Thaxton
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Jinfeng Zhang
Florida State University
FL
Jing Huang
NCI, National Institutes of Health
MD
Julyun Oh
A2 Biotherapeutics
USA
Keith T. Wilson
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
TN
Khosrow Rezvani
The University of South Dakota
SD
Kunihiko Hinohara
Nagoya University
Japan
Lee M. Graves
The University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill, NC
Lih-Wen DENG
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Lixin Rui
University of Wisconsin-Madison
WI
Lixing Yang
The University of Chicago
IL
Liya Ding
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, NY
Lucas Ferrari de Andrade
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Lucia Borriello
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
NY
Maja H. Oktay
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
NY
Marcin Iwanicki
Stevens Institute of Technology
NJ
Marion R. Curtis
Mayo Clinic
AZ
Martin K. Thomsen
Aarhus University
Denmark
Mar Valés-Gómez
Spanish National Research Council
Spain
Mats Ljungman
University of Michigan Medical School
MI
Medhi Wangpaichitr
University of Miami
FL
Michael Goldstein
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
MD
Michelle Mendoza
University of Utah
UT
Mumtaz V Rojiani
Penn State Cancer Institute
PA
Myron Ignatius
UT Health Sciences Center
Texas
Nagi G Ayad
Georgetown University
DC
Namhee Lee
SillaJen, Inc.
South Korea
Nils Cordes
OncoRay
Germany
Ozgur Sahin
Medical University of South Carolina
SC
Payam A Gammage
CRUK Beatson Institute
UK
Peiwen Chen
Northwestern University
IL
Qin Feng
University of Houston
TX
Qingrun Zhang
University of Calgary
Canada
Rachel Karchin
Johns Hopkins University
MD
Romi Gupta
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
Safiah Olabi
Helmholtz Zentrum München
Germany
Satyamaheshwar Peddibhotla
University of Florida
FL
Sean Ahern
IGM Biosciences, Inc.
CA
Sergey Karakashev
Temple University
PA
Shaheen Sikandar
University of California @ Santa Cruz
CA
S. Stephen Yi
University of Texas at Austin
TX
Sihan Wu
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, TX
Soona Shin
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH
Stefanie Galban
University of Michigan
MI
Stephen T. C. Wong
Houston Methodist, Weill Cornell Medical College, TX
Subhamoy Dasgupta
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center NY
Tracy Murray Stewart
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
MD
Wenliang Li
University of TX Health Science Center at Houston, TX
William H. Gmeiner
Wake Forest University
NC
Wolf-Karsten Hofmann
University Hospital Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany
Xiaoling Li
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NC
Xi Chen
Baylor College of Medicine
TX
Yan Peng
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, TX
Yi Nan Gong
University of Pittsburgh
PA
Yi Zheng
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, OH
Young-Mee Kim
University of Illinois at Chicago
IL
Zhe Ji
Northwestern University
IL
Zhou Wang
University of Pittsburgh
PA
Zohar Sachs
University of Minnesota
MN
Wenge Zhu
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science, DC
Allen C. Gao
University of California
CA
Gamze Ayaz
National Institutes of Health
MD
Eugen Dhimolea
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
NY
Richard Kolesnick
Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute
NY