2018 Early Detection Seminar Series
Seminar & Discussion: 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Reception: 5:30pm - 6:00pm
The Early Detection Seminar Series presents seminars highlighting new research in Early Cancer Detection. This seminar series alternates months with the Information Sciences in Imaging Seminars.
Seminars will be held in Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) Freidenrich Auditorium or Li Ka Shing Learning Center (LKSC), Room LK130, Munzer Auditorium, Alway, Clark Auditorium, or Clark S360.
NOTE: This seminar does not run through the Summer months.
Invited Speakers
January 25, 2018
Location: Munzer Auditorium
Title: Translating the Airway Transcriptome into Biomarkers for Early Lung Cancer Detection: The Road less Traveled
Avrum Spira, M.D., M.Sc., Professor, Boston University School of Medicine
May 24, 2018
Location: Munzer Auditorium
Title: Why Early Lung Cancer Detection Matters: Biology Creates Opportunities
Speaker: Edward Patz Jr., MD, Professor of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center
October 25, 2018
Location: Munzer Auditorium
Title: Tracing the evolutionary history of metastatic cancer with hypermutable DNA
Speaker: Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Systems Biology
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
