Seminar Series

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center's (Case CCC) interdisciplinary seminar series addresses cutting-edge clinical, translational, and basic research topics in cancer, and is a focal point of 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. 

Spring 2025 Schedule

1/31/25

"Revealing Neural Circuitry Disruptions in Glioblastoma with Light"

Murat Yildirim, PhD
Assistant Professor, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic

2/7/25

"Functional Profiling of Oncogenic Distal Enhancers in B Lineage Cancers"

Russell Ryan, MD
Assistant Professor, Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School

2/14/25

"The Molecular Epidemiology of Brain Tumors: Implications for Prevention and Therapy"

Kyle Walsh, PhD
Associate Professor, Neurosurgery, Duke University

2/21/25

"Beyond Prognosis: p53 Status as an Actionable Biomarker in Endometrial Cancer"

Roberto Vargas, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, CWRU School of Medicine
Member, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Case CCC

2/28/25

"Non-invasive Colorectal Cancer Screening for Addressing Disparities in Outcomes"

Chyke Doubeni, MD, MPH
Chief Health Equity Officer, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center

3/7/25

No Seminar

Join us at Case CCC's Cancer Disparities Symposium!

3/14/25

Rong Xu, PhD
Director, Center for AI in Drug Discovery, CWRU School of Medicine
Member, Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics Program, Case CCC

3/21/25

Kristen Purrington, PhD
Associate Professor of Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine

3/28/25

The Adamczyk Lecture in partnership with CWRU's Department of Biomedical Engineering

Thomas Yankeelov, PhD
Director, Center for Computational Oncology, University of Texas at Austin

4/4/25

Ken Lau, PhD
Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University

4/11/25

Carlo Maley, PhD
Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

4/18/25

No Seminar

4/25/25

No Seminar

Attend AACR's Annual Meeting in Chicago

5/2/25

Linda (Lai) Chan, PhD
Assistant Staff, Cleveland Clinic
Member, Immune Oncology Program, Case CCC

5/9/25

Kristopher Bosse, MD
Attending Physician, Division of Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Member, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania

Contact

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