Ontario Cancer Institute Seminars

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 4:00pm

Combining Single-Cell Signaling with Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Insight into Blood Cell Fitness
Rob Welner, PhD
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Hematology & Oncology; O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Anastasia Tikhonova
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice_Robert Welner_November 21, 2024.pdf

Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 4:00pm

Targets and Personalized Therapies for Small Cell Lung Cancer
Dr. Taofeek K. Owonikoko, MD, PhD
Executive Director of the University of Maryland’s NCI-designated Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC)
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Lok
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 11:00am

Discovery, chemical biology and early clinical development of NXP800, an activator of GCN2 and the Integrated Stress Response and suppressor of the HSF1 pathway, for ARID1 A mutant ovarian cancer
Dr. Paul Workman
Professor, Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery, The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 11:00am
Host: Dr. Cheryl Arrowsmith
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Special Seminar
Special Seminar

Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 4:00pm

The Two Faces of Prostate Cancer: Plasticity and Heterogeneity
Ping Mu PhD
Associate Professor of Urology, Yale University, U.S.A.
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Hansen He
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 4:00pm

Conquering Stress in Cancer—Understanding the Stressed Tumor Microenvironment
Dr. Xueyan He, PhD
Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Aaron Schimmer
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 4:00pm

Enabling Technologies Applied to Accelerating Oncology Projects in a Sustainable Manner
Dr. Paul Richardson
Director, Analytical and Synthesis Technologies, Oncology Medicine Design, Pfizer
Thursday, February 27, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Professor Mark Reed
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 4:00pm

Combining targeted photothermal therapy with a locally administered novel immunostimulant for treatment of metastatic cancers: from benchtop to bedside
Wei R. Chen, PhD
Stephenson Endowed Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Interim Director Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, DDUniversity of Oklahoma
Thursday, March 6, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Gang Zheng
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 4:00pm

Preclinical studies on FLASH Proton radiotherapy in mice and canines: are we ready for clinical translation?
Dr. Constantinos Koumenis, PhD
Professor and Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Radiation Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Fei-Fei Liu
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 4:00pm

Perchance to Dream: Sleep and neuroinflammation
Douglas R. Green, PhD
Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Thursday, March 20, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Drs. Catherine O'Brien and Linda Penn
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 4:00pm

Sequence-to-Activity Models
Katie Pollard, PhD
L.K. Whittier Director, Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology; Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Michael Hoffman
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice_Katie Pollard_March 27, 2025.pdf

Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 4:00pm

Technology Disruptions in Radiation Oncology
Thomas R. Mackie, PhD
Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Catherine Coolens
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 7th Floor, Rm 7-605
OCI Seminar Series

Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 4:00pm

The leukemia driving microenvironment in pathogenesis and treatment
Stavroula Kousteni, PHD
Professor, Department of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University; Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Anastasia Tikhonova
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar
Poster available: PDF icon Seminar Notice_Stavroula Kousteni.docx_.pdf

Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 4:00pm

Single cell genotype-to-phenotype mapping in clonal hematopoiesis and myeloproliferative neoplasms
Dr. Franco Izzo
Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Federico Gatti
Margaret Cancer Research Tower (PMCRT) 4th Fl , rm 204
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 4:00pm

Harnessing targeted protein degradation to overcome the limitations of inhibition
Dr. Guangrong Zheng
Professor, University of Florida
Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Robert Kridel
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Monday, May 26, 2025 - 4:00pm

Perchance to Dream: Sleep and Neuroinflammation
Douglas R. Green, PhD
Department of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Monday, May 26, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Linda Penn and Dr. Catherine O'Brien
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 4:00pm

Cellular Senescence, Cancer, and Senolytics: The Path to Translation
James Kirkland, M.D, Ph.D
Director, Center for Advanced Gerotherapeutics, Medicine at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles, California
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Catherine O'Brien
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-605
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 4:00pm

Novel Biology and Emerging Therapies for Lung Cancer
Triparna Sen, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Director, Lung Cancer PDX PlatformIcahn, School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 4:00pm
Host: Dr. Benjamin Lok and Dr. Hansen He
PMH, 610 University Avenue, 6th Floor Auditorium, Rm 6-604
OCI Seminar Series
Invited Speaker Seminar

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