2024 Research Symposium
 Agenda

8:00 – 9:00 AM Registration/Breakfast/Exhibitors
9:00 – 9:15 AM  Welcome  Opening Remarks

Ke Jian “Jim” Liu, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology
Associate Director for Basic Science
Stony Brook  Cancer Center
9:15 – 10:15 AM American Cancer Society Speakers
9:15 – 9:25 AM

Kartik Mani, MD, PhD
Radiation Oncologist Stony Brook Cancer Center
Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology Department of Biomedical Informatics
Stony Brook University
Prospective Evaluation of Radiosurgical Decompression in Patients with High-Risk Spinal Metastases
9:25 – 9:35 AM Christina Lee, MD
Hematologist and Medical OncologistStony Brook Cancer Center
Clinical Assistant Professor in Medicine
Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells in Hematologic Malignancy
 
9:35 – 9::45 AM Prateek Prasanna, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Informatics
Stony Brook University
Quantitative Image-Based Response Prediction in Patients Receiving Radiation for Intracranial Metastases
 
9:45 – 9:55 AM Julie Rageul, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University
Role of TIMELESS in DNA Replication and Cancer Therapy
 
9:55 – 10:05 AM

Nick Ahn, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University
A Clinical Trial of Kaletra (Lopinavir/Ritonavir) as Therapy of HPV Related Anal High Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions
10:15 - 11:45 AM

Phase I - Poster Session Presented by Trainees
●   Four/five thematic small groups
●   Each presenter has 5 minutes to discuss his/her/their poster

●   Q&A to follow each presentation

●  Two discussion facilitators (one clinician and one researcher)
      will join each group
●  Two judges for each small group will grade presentations.
●  General audience will choose a small group of interest and join the
     discussion.
11:45 - 1:00 PM

Lunch / Exhibitors
Phase II - Poster Small Groups   
●  Over lunch, each group of poster presenters and the two discussion
     facilitators will brainstorm on potential new ideas for research
     collaborations.

●  Judges will meet and discuss awards for the best posters based on
     abstracts, presentations, Q & A and poster boards.
1:00 - 1:45 PM Report Back on Research Ideas
1:45 - 2:30

Shared Resources:  Richard R. Kew, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Department of Pathology
Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University

Pop Science:  Paola Boffetta, MD, MPH
Associate Director for Population Sciences
Stony Brook Cancer Center Full Professor,
Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine
Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University

Community Outreach: Linda Mermelstein, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement
Stony Brook Cancer Center
2:30 - 3:30 Keynote Speaker
Yusuf Hannun, MD
Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center
Vice Dean for Cancer Medicine
Joel Strum Kenny Professor in Cancer Research 
3:30 – 4:00pm Awards / Social Networking
 
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