Annual Scientific Retreat Agenda | Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Thursday, July 21 Tinkham Veale
2:00 – 2:15 PM	"Year of Accomplishments" Stan Gerson, MD Director, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
2:15 – 3:20	TED-style Talks "Nurture Equity to Diversify Academia" Angel L. Reyes-Rodriguez, PhD Director, McNair Scholars Program, Cleveland State University "Reimagining how we harmonize diversity and meritocracy" Charles V. Barber, PhD Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs "Snowflakes and Onions: Shaping Ideas through Diverse Experiences" Ruth Keri, PhD Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine Associate Director for Basic Research, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
3:20 - 5:00	Poster Sessions and Reception
Friday, July 22 Corporate College East
7:30 – 8:00	Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15 AM	"Strategic Directions" Stan Gerson, MD Director, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
8:15 – 8:30	Introduction and Vision Alex Adjei, MD Director, Taussig Cancer Center
8:30 – 10:10	Session I: Technologies/Innovations Moderator: William Schiemann, PhD CAB Member: Waverly Willis "Contrast Enhance Ultrasound for Personalized Nanomedicine - From Drug-free Theranostics to Precision Drug Therapy" Agata Exner, PhD Professor, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case School of Engineering Co-Leader, Cancer Imaging Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center "TIGIT as a marker of CD19 CAR-T call dysfunction in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma" David Wald, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine Member, Immune Oncology Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center "Differentiation Defects in Mammary Epithelia of Germline BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation Cancers" Mihriban Karaayvaz, PhD Assistant Staff, Lerner Research Institute "Wild-type IDH1 is required for meatbolic rewiring in pancreatic cancer cells under nutrient limitation" Ali Vaziri-Gohar, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine Panel Discussion/Q&A
10:10 – 10:30	Break
10:10 – 11:30	Keynote "Cellular crosstalk in pancreatic cancer" Marina Pasca Di Magliano, PhD Maude T. Lane Profesor of Surgical Immunology Professor, Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology University of Michigan
11:30 – 12:45	Lunch/Program Breakout Rooms Developmental Therapeutics (DT): Room 203 Molecular Oncology (MO): Room 204 Population Cancer Prevention (PCP): Room 223 Immune Oncology (IO): Room 224 Cancer Genomics (CG): Room 229 Cancer Imaging (CI): Room 230 Trainees: Room 205
12:45 – 1:00	Break
1:00 – 2:40	Session II: Microbiome Moderator: Mahmoud Ghannoum, PhD CAB Member: Michele Seyranian "Alcohol Effects on the Gut-Liver Axis" Gail Cresci, PhD, RD Staff, Lerner Research Institute "Gut Microbial Metabolites and Host Disease Susceptibility" Ina Nemet, PhD Project Scientist, Cleveland Clinic "The vaginal microbiome and cervical cancer in women living with HIV" Adam Burgener, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine Director, Center for Global Health and Diseases, School of Medicine Co-Leader, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center "Microbiome-Host Interaction in Human Health and Disease" William (BJ) Massey, PhD Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Panel Discussion/Q&A
2:40 – 2:50	Break
2:50 – 4:30	Session III: Bench-to-Bedside-to-Population Moderator: Mariam AlHilli, MD CAB Member: Yvonne Oliver "Metabolite to nucleotide to physiology of sex steroid dependent cancers" Nima Sharifi, MD Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center "A ligand based CAR-T targeting multiple receptors for B cell cancer therapy" Reshmi Parameswaran, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine Member, Immune Oncology Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center "The Long and Winding Road from Lynch Syndrome, to TGF-beta-RII, to 15-PGDH; from bedside, to bench, and almost back again" Sandy Markowitz, MD, PhD Ingalls Professor of Cancer Genetics, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, School of Medicine Member, Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center "Moving Discovery to Impact: Innovation to Increase Update of Cancer Screening" Erika Trapl, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine Director, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, School of Medicine Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program Panel Discussion
4:30 – 5:00	Reception
5:00 – 5:30	Program Leaders/Executive Committee closed session