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Mini-Retreat and Olof H. Pearson, MD Memorial Lecture in Hormone-Responsive Malignancies
Friday, April 10, 2026
Keynote: Arul Chinnaiyan | 12:00-1:00 pm EST
Wolstein Research Building Auditorium (1-413)
2103 Cornell Road
Cleveland, OH 44106
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Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD
S.P. Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology
Director, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology
Professor of Pathology and Professor of Urology, University of Michigan Medical School
Arul M. Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, presents Rewiring oncogenic transcriptional complexes with domain-ALTeration chimeras (DALTACs) in prostate cancer, which examines how large-scale genomics has reshaped cancer discovery and its translation to patient care. His work is widely recognized for identifying TMPRSS2-ETS gene fusions in prostate cancer—the first causative gene fusion described in a common solid tumor—using a bioinformatics approach that leveraged outlier analysis across aggregated tumor gene expression datasets. This discovery not only redefined prostate cancer biology but also demonstrated the power of computational methods to uncover clinically meaningful alterations at scale.
Mini Retreat
Friday, April 10, 2026 | 9:00 am-12:00 pm EST
Wolstein Research Building Cancer Center Room (1-422D)
2103 Cornell Road
Cleveland, OH 44106
Justin Lathia: Sex hormones impact tumor microenvironment interactions in glioblastoma
Berkley Gryder: Features of 3D Enhancer Clusters that Predict Transcriptional Drug Response
Kaixiang Cao: Non-canonical roles of epigenetic modifiers in regulating cell identity
Daniel McGrail: One man's trash: discovering new biology through neglected data
Coming Soon
April 17, 2026 | No Speaker (AACR)
April 24, 2026 | David Solit, MD - Expanding the Actionable Genome
May 1, 2026 | Yi Fan, PhD
May 8, 2026 | Susan Mazanec, PhD, MSN
Inside the Seminar
Cancer research moves quickly. Our weekly seminar series connects you with the latest discoveries, the people behind them, and the ideas shaping what comes next.
- Hear emerging research before publication
- Discover new methods and approaches
- Connect with researchers across disciplines
- CME credits available (when applicable)
- Join in person or via livestream
- Complementary light lunch provided
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