Seminar Series

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center's (Case CCC) interdisciplinary seminar series addresses cutting-edge clinical, translational, and basic research topics in cancer, serving as a focal point for the educational and inter-programmatic activities of the cancer center.

Seminars are held at noon (12-1 p.m. ET) every Friday during the fall and spring semesters in the Wolstein Research Building Auditorium (1-413) and on livestream at case.edu/livestream/s4 unless otherwise noted below. Seminars are not available for viewing at a later date. Registration is not required to attend. 

Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit is available for those who attend seminars in person or via livestream. 

Fall 2025 Schedule

11/14/25

NEW PRESENTER!

 

"Role of TET-Dioxygenases in Somatic Cell Reprogramming and its therapeutic implication for anticancer immunotherapy"

Babal K. Jha, PhD
Associate Staff & Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine,  Center for Immunotherapy & Precision Immuno-Oncology (CITI), Department of Hematology and Oncology Research, Case CCC Immune Oncology Program member 

 

11/21/25

"Understanding and overcoming barriers to tumor clearance by macrophages"

Roarke Kamber, PhD
Assistant Professor, Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

11/28/25

No Seminar: Thanksgiving

 
 

 

12/5/25

Rui Cao, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, CWRU

12/12/25

TBD

 

Spring 2026 Schedule

 

1/2/26

 No Seminar -- Winter Recess

1/9/26

Mohammed Dwidar, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, CWRU

1/16/26

Shou Li, PhD
Leonard Case Jr. Professor of Engineering, CWRU

1/23/26

David Kaelber, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP, FACP
Chief Health Informatics Officer, MetroHealth System

1/30/26

Stephen Hecht, PhD
Winston R. and Maxine H. Wallin Land Grant Chair in Cancer Prevention University of Minnesota 

2/6/26

Haley Perlow, MD
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, CWRU SOM  

2/9/26

Jian Xu, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty, Center of Excellence in Leukemia Studies

Contact

Contact Case CCC Events (casecccevents@case.edu) for more information.