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The Science of Childhood Cancer

Lecture Archives

 
 

The Science of Childhood Cancer is an interactive, weekly lecture series designed to engage the scientific community on key questions in pediatric cancer research. The series, hosted by the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center, originally launched in August 2020 and features leading experts across the spectrum of basic, translational, clinical and population science. Explore our library of archived lectures below, and visit our registration page to receive updates about upcoming live events. 

 
 

Prior Lectures: 2020-2023

  1. Annie Huang
     
     

    Drivers of transformation in embryonal tumors with multi-layered rosettes (ETMRs)

    Annie Huang, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
    Pediatric Neuro-oncologist, Pediatric Brain Tumor Program, Division of Hematology Oncology, Senior Scientist, Program in Cell Biology – Labatt Brain Tumor Research Centre
    Canada Research Chair in Rare Childhood Brain Tumors, Professor of Paediatrics, Medical Biophysics, Lab Medicine & Pathobiology; Associate Chair (Research), Department of Pediatrics – SickKids Hospital, University of Toronto
    Lead investigator – The Rare Brain Tumor Consortium

     
     
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    Epigenetic and 3D genome alteration in cancer

    Feng Yue, PhD
    Director, Center for Cancer Genomics – Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Duane and Susan Burnham Professor for Molecular Medicine, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

     
     

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    Opportunities and challenges in pediatric oncology drug development: Lessons learned from the biopharmaceutical industry

    Sam Blackman, MD, PhD
    Head of Research & Development – Day One Biopharmaceuticals

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    Alejandro Sweet-Cordero
     
     

    Genomic analysis of osteosarcoma: Making sense of a complex genome to advance translational research and targeted therapy

    Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD
    Chief, Division of Pediatric Oncology – 
    University of California-San Francisco

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    Paul Nathan
     
     

    The financial burden of surviving childhood cancer

    Paul Nathan, MD, MSc
    Head, Solid Tumor Section & Director, AfterCare Program, Division of Hematology/Oncology –  The Hospital for Sick Children
    Professor, Pediatrics and Health Policy, Management & Evaluation – University of Toronto

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    Advancing outcomes for patients with neuroblastoma

    Sara Federico, MD
    Member – Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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    Frank Westermann
     
     

    Childhood neuroblastoma: evolution and malignant progression

    Frank Westermann, MD
    Head of Division –  German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
    Head of Section Embryonal Tumors – Hopp Children’s Cancer Center (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany

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    David Langenau
     
     

    Pushing for new biology and cancer therapies in rhabdomyosarcoma

    David Langenau, PhD
    Professor of Pathology – Harvard Medical School
    Faculty – Mass General Cancer Center and Pathology

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    Judy Lieberman
     
     

    Sounding an alarm: Innate immunity makes cancer immunogenic

    Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD
    Endowed Chair in Cellular and Molecular Medicine – Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Boston Children's Hospital
    Professor of Pediatrics – Harvard Medical School

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    Translating the self/nonself discrimination problem in cancer

    Benjamin Greenbaum, PhD

    Associate Attending & Program Leader in Computational Immuno-oncology – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Associate Professor, Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology – Weill Cornell Medicine

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    Liquid biopsies in pediatric solid tumors: refining treatment and studying tumor evolution

    Brian Crompton, MD
    Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
    Co-Director for Research, Pediatric Solid Tumor Program, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics – Harvard Medical School
    Associate Member – Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

    Lecture not recorded

     

      

     
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    Novel venetoclax combinations for relapsed pediatric leukemia

    Seth Karol, MD
    Associate Member – Leukemia & Lymphoma Division, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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    Catherine Bollard
     
     

    Cell therapies for pediatric solid tumors – Beyond conventional CAR-T

    Catherine Bollard, MBChB, MD

    Interim Chief Academic Officer, Director – Center for Cancer & Immunology Research
    Director – Program for Cell Enhancement & Technologies for Immunotherapy
    Professor of Pediatrics and of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine – Children's National Hospital, Children's National Research Institute, The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Services

    Lecture not recorded

     
     
  2. Special Event:

    New BIG data resources on St Jude Cloud: The Pediatric Cancer Knowledgebase (PeCanV2) and Survivorship Portal

    This presentation will include an overview followed by live demo of two newly released BIG data resources on St Jude Cloud, a Cloud-based pediatric cancer data sharing ecosystem:

    1. PeCanV2 for ontology-driven exploration of interesting patterns of genomic landscapes, mutational signatures, transcriptomics, and histology slides from >9,000 pediatric cancer samples; and
    2. A survivorship portal for on-the-fly analysis of 1,621 clinical variables related to demographics, cancer diagnosis/treatment, laboratory measurements and late effects, 3,328 polygenic risk scores, with 100M genetic variants from 7,169 long-term survivors enrolled in St. Jude Lifetime (SJLIFE) and Childhood Cancer Survivorship Study (CCSS).

    The panel of St. Jude experts:

     
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    Jinghui Zhang, PhD
    Member and Chair
    Department of Computational Biology
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

     
     
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    Clay McLeod
    Director of Product Development and Engineering
    Computational Biology  
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

     
     
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    Kirsten K. Ness, PT, PhD, FAPTA
    Member
    Epidemiology and Cancer Control
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

     
     
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    Xin Zhou, PhD
    Assistant member
    Computational Biology
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

     
     
     

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    Hereditary Predisposition to Cancer: At the Tip of the Iceberg

    Kim E. Nichols, MD
    Member, Department of Oncology
    Director, Division of Cancer Predisposition
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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    New mechanistic insights into the development of pediatric myeloid tumors

    Jeffery M. Klco, MD, PhD
    Associate Member, Department of Pathology
    Director, Division of Hematopathology and Molecular Pathology

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    Gerald Crabtree
     
     

    Rewiring Cancer Drivers to Activate Apoptosis

    Gerald Crabtree, MD
    David Korn Professor of Pathology
    Professor, Developmental Biology
    Stanford University

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    Emerging Therapies for Pediatric Leukemia

    Sarah K Tasian, MD
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
    Chief, Hematologic Malignancies Program, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

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    Lineage Histories and Function in the Hematopoietic System

    Fernando Camargo, PhD
    Professor
    Stem Cell Program, Children's Hospital Boston
    Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

    Lecture not recorded.

     
     

    Amar Gajjar
     
     

    Evolution of Our Understanding of WNT and SHH Medulloblastoma

    Amar Gajjar, MD
    Member and Chair, Department of Pediatric MedicineCo-Chair, Department of Oncology
    Director, Neuro-Oncology Division
    Co-Leader, Neurobiology & Brain Tumor Program
    Scott and Tracie Hamilton Endowed Chair in Brain Tumor Research
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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    Harnessing Implementation Science to Improve Outcomes for Children with Cancer who Develop Critical Illness

    Asya Agulnik, MD, MPH
    Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
    Director, Global Critical Care Program, St. Jude Global
    Director, Euro Regional Program, St. Jude Global

    Dr. Sara Federico's presentation, originally scheduled for April 13, was postponed.

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    Mechanisms of chromatin regulation by EWS fusion proteins

    Miguel N. Rivera, MD
    Associate Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School
    Investigator, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital

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    HOX-high Leukemias in Childhood

    Kathrin M. Bernt, MD
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Attending Physician, Division of Pediatric Oncology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Member, University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center (NCI designated)

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    Maksim Mamonkin
     
     

    CAR T-cells for T-cell Malignancies: Proving and Improving

    Maksim Mamonkin, PhD
    Assistant Professor
    Pathology & Immunology
    Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
    Baylor College of Medicine

     

       

     
    Greta Krenciute
     
     

    What will it take to make CARTs effective for pediatric brain tumors? 

    Giedre Krenciute, PhD
    Assistant Member
    Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy
    Comprehensive Cancer Center
    St Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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    Dissecting Adult and Pediatric Gliomas by Single-cell Genomics

    Mario Suva, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor of Pathology, Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
    Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

    Lecture not recorded

     
     

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    Psychological and Biobehavioral Health Outcomes in Survivors of Childhood Cancer

    Tara M. Brinkman, PhD
    Associate Member
    Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control
    Department of Psychology
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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    Building a Mind for Cancer

    Trey Ideker, PhD
    Professor of Genetics, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego

    Lecture not recorded

     
     

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    The Dutch Childhood Cancer Survivor Study LATER; Results and Implications

    Leontien CM Kremer, MD, PhD
    Professor Survivorship Childhood Cancer, Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Lecture not recorded

     
     

    photo of  Yutaka Yasui
     
     

    Clonal Hematopoiesis and the Origins of Blood Cancers

    Benjamin Ebert, MD, PhD
    George P. Canellos, M.D. and Jean S. Canellos Professor of Medicine – Harvard Medical School
    Chair of Medical Oncology – Dana Farber Cancer Institute
    Investigator – Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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    Prognostic Significance of Aberrant Body Composition and Musculoskeletal Deficits in Childhood Cancer Survivors

    Sogol Mostoufi-Moab, MD, MSCE
    Associate Professor
    Perelman School of Medicine
    University of Pennsylvania
    Richard and Sheila Sanford Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oncology
    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

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    Co-opting the TCR Machinery to Enhance CAR T Cell Efficacy and Specificity

    Robbie Majzner, MD
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Division of Hematology, Oncology, Stem Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine
    Stanford University

     

     
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    The Evolution of Pediatric Gliomas

    Pratiti (Mimi) Bandopadhayay, MBBS, PhD
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center

     

     
     
     
    Genvieve Almouzni
     
     

    Histone Variants and Chaperones in Shaping Chromatin and Cell Fate

    Dr. Geneviève Almouzni
    Head of the Chromatin Dynamics team
    Institut Curie - Research Center / CNRS

    Lecture not recorded

     
     

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    The Lifetime Impact of Childhood Cancer and Cancer Therapy: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study

    Greg Armstrong, MD, MSCE
    Full Member, Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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    Therapeutic Targeting of Epigenetic Modifiers in Leukemia

    Jolanta Grembecka, PhD
    Professor of Pathology
    University of Michigan

    Lecture not recorded

     

     
     

    photo of Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo
     

    Curing Childhood Cancer and Curing Children with Cancer – Strategies to Address Global Inequities in Childhood Cancer Care and Control

    Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD
    Executive Vice President
    Director, St. Jude Global
    Chair, Department of Global Pediatric Medicine
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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    Targeting Bcl-2 Family Proteins in Leukemia

    Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD
    Leader of the Leukemia Program; Professor of Hematology-Oncology and Co-DirectorTranslational Blood Cancer Institute
    Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Professor of Medicine
    University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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    Pediatric Oncology Drug Development – Learning from Past Successes to Create a Better Future

    Malcolm A. Smith, MD, PhD
    Associate Branch Chief, Pediatrics
    Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP)
    National Cancer Institute (NCI)

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    From Bedside to Bench and Back to Bedside: Travels in the Systems Biology of GVHD

    Leslie S. Kean, MD, PhD
    Director, Stem Cell Transplantation Program
    Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital
    Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Robert A. Stranahan Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

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    Photo of David Malkin
     

    The Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Genomic Landscape: Harnessing p53 for Clinical Utility

    David Malkin, MD, FRCPC
    Senior Staff Oncologist & Senior Scientist
    The Hospital for Sick Children
    Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Biophysics
    University of Toronto

    Lecture not recorded.

     
     

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    Designing and Developing Pediatric Cancer-Specific Immunotherapies

    John M. Maris, MD
    Giulio D'Angio Professor of Pediatric Oncology
    Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

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    A New Model of Oncogenic Kinase Signaling via Membraneless Cytoplasmic Protein Granules

    Trever Bivona, MD, PhD
    Professor of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology
    University of California, San Francisco

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    Oncohistones Organize Chromatin Architecture to Regulate Developmental Programs

    Nada Jabado, MD, PhD
    Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics
    McGill University

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    Identifying Epigenetic Mechanisms of Failure in T Cell-Based Immunotherapy

    Benjamin Youngblood, PhD
    Associate Member
    St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Presented August 18, 2022.

    Lecture not recorded.

     
     

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    Updates with Engineered T Cells

    Carl H. June, MD
    Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
    Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
    Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
    Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

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    The Conformational Landscape of Protein Kinases in Physiology and Disease

    Charalampos Kalodimos, PhD
    Member, St. Jude Faculty
    Chair, Structural Biology Department
    Joseph Simone Endowed Chair in Basic Research
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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    Genetic Susceptibility to Subsequent Neoplasms Following Childhood Cancer

    Lindsay M. Morton, PhD
    Senior Investigator & Deputy Branch Chief, Radiation Epidemiology Branch
    Head, Cancer Survivorship Research Unit
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute 

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    Unraveling the Heterogeneity of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Through the Lens of Pharmacogenomics

    Jun J. Yang, PhD
    Member and Vice Chair, Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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    Identify Novel Therapeutic Opportunities in Pediatric Cancers Using High-Resolution CRISPR Tiling Scans

    David Chen, PhD
    Associate Professor, Systems Biology , City of Hope Cancer Center

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    Reading Epigenetic Landscape: New Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities

    Liling Wan, PhD
    Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology
    Penn Epigenetics Institute
    Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

    Lecture not recorded

     
     

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    Disrupted Development in Pediatric High-Grade Glioma

    Suzanne J. Baker, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

    Lecture not recorded

     
     

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    What Can We Learn From GWAS Data?  Genetic Heterogeneity and Rare Variant Hypothesis of Cancer Risk

    Yutaka Yasui, PhD
    Member, Epidemiology and Cancer Control
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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    Pathobiology of asparaginase resistance

    Alejandro Gutierrez, MD
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

    Lecture not recorded

     
     

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    Learning From Children: Designing Better Clinical Trials with Their Data

    Katherine A. Janeway, MD, MMSc
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
    Senior Physician, Dana-Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
    Director, Clinical Genomics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

     
     

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    Targeting Hidden Drivers Toward Precision Oncology

    Jiyang Yu, PhD
    Associate Member
    Department of Computational Biology
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

     
     

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    Mapping Childhood Brain Tumor Profiles Onto Normal Development Identifies Novel Therapeutic Vulnerabilities

    Prof. Dr. Stefan M. Pfister
    Director Preclinical Program, Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ)
    Head, Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, DKFZ
    Deputy Head, KiTZ Clinical Trial Unit (ZIPO) and Pediatric Brain Tumors, Heidelberg University Hospital

     
     

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    Functional Genomics of T-Cell Metabolism and Immuno-oncology

    Hongbo Chi, PhD
    Member and Robert G. Webster Endowed Chair in Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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    Discovering and Targeting Neuroblastoma Vulnerabilities: ALK Inhibition as a Paradigm

    Yaël Mossé, MD
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

     
     

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    Human Metabolic Outliers

    Ralph J. DeBerardinis, MD, PhD
    HHMI Investigator and Professor
    Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern

    Lecture not archived

     
     

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    Clonal Evolution and Somatic Reversion in Genetic Predisposition to TP53-Mutated MDS

    Akiko Shimamura, MD, PhD
    Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
    Samuel E. Lux IV Chair in Hematology Oncology
    Director, Bone Marrow Failure and MDS Program
    Dana Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center

     
     

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    Secondary Breast Cancer: A Paradigm for Survivorship Research

    Kevin Oeffinger, MD
    Director
    DCI Center for Onco-Primary Care
    Duke University

     
     
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    Deconvoluting the Origins of Acute Leukemia

    Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS (Hons), MSc, MD
    Member, Pathology
    Deputy Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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    Meredith Irwin portrait
     

    Identification of Biomarkers, Models and Targets to Improve Outcomes and Precision Approaches for Neuroblastoma

    Meredith Irwin, MD
    Paediatrician-in-Chief
    The Hospital for Sick Children
    Chair, Department of Paediatrics; Professor, Departments of Paediatrics; Medical Biophysics; Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
    University of Toronto

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    Olivier Delattre portrait
     

    Modulation of the Activity of the Dominant Oncogene EWS-FLI1 by Germline Polymorphisms and Cohesin Mutations

    Olivier Delattre, MD, PhD
    Inserm Research Director
    Head of Cancer, Heterogeneity, Instability and Plasticity Department
    Head of the Pediatric Oncology Center
    Institut Curie, Paris, France

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    The Role of Survivorship Research in Advancing Childhood Cancer Care and Quality of Survival

    Melissa M. Hudson, MD
    Director, Cancer Survivorship Division
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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    Deciphering Somatic Evolution with Single-Cell Multi-Omics

    Dan A. Landau, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology
    Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
    Weill Cornell Medical College
    Core Member
    New York Genome Center

    Lecture not archived.

     
     

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    The Biology, Diagnosis, and Management of T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Lymphoma

    David T. Teachey, MD
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    Division of Oncology
    The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
    University of Pennsylvania
    Perelman School of Medicine

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    David Fisher portrait
     

    Sunlight and Skin: Lessons for Melanoma Therapeutics From Its Unique Pathogenesis

    David E. Fisher, MD, PhD
    Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics
    Chair, Dept of Dermatology
    Mass General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

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    Influence of Metabolism on Cancer Progression

    Matt Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
    Director, Koch Institute
    Lester Wolfe Professor in Molecular Biology
    Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

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    Epigenetic Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis

    Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD
    Chair, Department of Cancer Biology
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Institute Member
    Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

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    Rising Stars of Cancer Research

     
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    Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Redirected Macrophages for the Treatment of Solid Tumors

    Saar Gill, MBBS, PhD, FRACP
    Associate Professor of Medicine
    Scientific Co-Director, Cell Therapy and Transplantation
    University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

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    Rising Stars of Cancer Research

     
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    Engineering Next-Generation CAR-T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy

    Yvonne Y. Chen, PhD
    Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics
    University of California, Los Angeles

    Lecture not archived.

     
     

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    What Will it Take To Cure Every Child with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia?

    Mignon Loh, MD
    Professor of Pediatrics
    Benioff Chair of Children’s Health
    Deborah and Arthur Ablin Endowed Professor of Pediatric Molecular Oncology
    Chair, ALL Committee, Children’s Oncology Group
    Benioff Children’s Hospital, UCSF, San Francisco, CA

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    CAR T Cell Therapies for Childhood Cancer, the University College London Experience

    Martin Pule, MB, FRCPath
    Senior Lecturer in Haematology
    University College London

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    Interventions to Prevent or Remediate Frailty in Childhood Cancer Survivors

    Kirsten K. Ness, PT, PhD, FAPTA
    Member, Epidemiology and Cancer Control
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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    Rising Stars of Cancer Research

     
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    Tailoring Medulloblastoma Therapy to Fit the Evolving Molecular Landscape

    Giles Robinson, MD
    Associate Member, Oncology Department
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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    Rising Stars of Cancer Research

     
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    Developmental Pathways, Plasticity and Novel Treatment Opportunities in Pediatric High-Grade Brain Tumors

    Mariella Filbin, MD, PhD
    Attending Physician in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
    Co-Director for Research, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Program
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorder Center

    Lecture not archived.

     
     

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    Persister Act: Near-Death Experiences in Cancer Cells

    Douglas R. Green, PhD
    Chair, Immunology Department
    Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program
    Peter C. Doherty Endowed Chair of Immunology
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

    Lecture not yet archived.

     
     
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    Genomic Variants in Pediatric Cancer: Landscape, Precision Oncology, and Data Sharing Ecosystem

    Jinghui Zhang, PhD
    Chair, Department of Computational Biology
    St. Jude Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Original lecture date: January 28

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    Will We Ever Cure Cancer?

    Richard Gilbertson, MD, PhD
    Li Ka Shing Chair of Oncology
    Head, Department of Oncology
    Director, Cancer Research UK Major Centre 
    University of Cambridge, England
    Original lecture date: February 4

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    Chromatin Complexes as Therapeutic Opportunities in Cancer

    Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD
    President, Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
    Chair, Department of Pediatric Oncology
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    David G. Nathan Professor of Pediatrics
    Harvard Medical School
    Original lecture date: February 11

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    Financial Hardship After Childhood Cancer

    Robin Yabroff, PhD, MBA
    Scientific Vice President, Health Services Research
    American Cancer Society
    Original lecture date: February 18

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    Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis in Children with Down Syndrome

    John Crispino, PhD, MBA
    Director, Division of Experimental Hematology
    The Wall Street Committee Endowed Chair
    Department of Hematology
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Original lecture date: February 25

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    Sheila Singh portrait
     

    Therapeutic Targeting of Self-Renewal of Medulloblastoma Stem Cells: Strategies for Blocking Recurrence

    Sheila Singh, MD, PhD, FRCS(C)
    Pediatric Neurosurgeon, McMaster Children's Hospital
    Professor of Surgery, McMaster University
    Principal Investigator, Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, McMaster University
    Senior Canada Research Chair in Human Cancer Stem Cell Biology
    University Scholar, Chair, McMaster College of Health Inventors
    Original lecture date: March 4

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    Single Cell Atlases as Roadmaps in Pediatric Cancer

    Aviv Regev, PhD
    Head of Research and Early Development
    Genentech
    Original lecture date: March 11

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    Successes and Challenges in Pediatric Cancer: The COG Perspective

    Douglas S. Hawkins, MD
    Chair of Children's Oncology Group
    Professor of Pediatrics
    University of Washington School of Medicine
    Seattle Children’s Hospital
    Original lecture date: March 18

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    Pediatric High-grade Glioma – Novel Drivers Define a Spectrum of New Tumor Subgroups

    David T.W. Jones, PhD
    Group Leader, 'Pediatric Glioma Research'
    Hopp Children’s Cancer Center (KiTZ)
    German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
    Original lecture date: March 25

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    A Role for Metabolism in Cancer Development and Progression

    Karen Vousden, PhD
    Senior Group Leader
    The Francis Crick Institute
    Original lecture date: April 1

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    Identifying Strategies to Improve HPV Vaccination Among Childhood Cancer Survivors

    Anne Kirchhoff, PhD, MPH
    Associate Professor, Pediatrics
    Investigator
    University of Utah/Huntsman Cancer Institute
    Original lecture date: April 8

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    Data Science Approaches to GPCR Signaling and Personalized Medicine

    Madan Babu, PhD, FRSC
    Endowed Chair in Biological Data Science
    Director, Center of Excellence for Data Driven Discovery
    Department of Structural Biology
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Original lecture date: April 15

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    Genetic and Epigenetic Approaches Towards Understanding Risk of Chronic Health Conditions Among Survivors of Childhood Cancer

    Zhaoming Wang, PhD
    Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control
    Department of Computational Biology
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Original lecture date: April 22

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    A First-generation Pediatric Cancer Dependency Map

    Kimberly Stegmaier, MD
    Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
    Ted Williams Chair and Vice Chair of Pediatric Oncology Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Institute Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
    Original lecture date: April 29, 2021

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    Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Human Cancer

    Cigall Kadoch, PhD
    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Oncology
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
    Institute Member and Epigenomics Program Co-Director, Broad Institute
    Original lecture date: May 6, 2021

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    CAR T Cells: On the Road to Synthetic Immunity

    Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD
    Director, Center for Cell Engineering
    Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair
    Member, Immunology Program
    Member, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics
    Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
    Original lecture date: August 13

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    Chromatin Remodeler Mutations in Cancer: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities

    Charles W.M. Roberts, MD, PhD
    Member, St. Jude Faculty
    Executive Vice President
    Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Director, Division of Molecular Oncology
    Department of Oncology
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Original lecture date: August 20

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    The Future of CAR T Cells for Hematologic Malignancies: Beyond Antigen Targeting

    Terry J. Fry, MD
    Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology and Immunology
    Co-Director, Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Initiative and Director of Cancer Immunotherapy
    University of Colorado School of Medicine
    Robert and Kathleen Clark Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cancer Therapeutics
    Children’s Hospital Colorado, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
    Original lecture date: August 27

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    Phase Separation in Gene Transcription: From the Nucleolus to Aberrant Transcription in Leukemia

    Richard W. Kriwacki, PhD
    Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program
    Department of Structural Biology
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Original lecture date: September 3

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    Late Effects Among Survivors of Blood or Marrow Transplantation

    Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH
    Director, Institute for Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship
    Gay and Bew White Endowed Chair in Pediatric Oncology
    Professor and Vice Chair, Dept. of Pediatrics
    School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Original lecture date: September 10

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    Advancing CAR T Cells for the Treatment of Glioblastoma: Progress and Challenges

    Christine Brown, PhD
    Heritage Provider Network Professor of Immunotherapy
    Deputy Director, T Cell Therapeutics Research Laboratory
    City of Hope
    Original lecture date: September 17

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    Cognitive Outcomes of Childhood Cancer: Neurophysiology, Biomarkers and Interventions

    Kevin R. Krull, PhD
    Endowed Chair, Cancer Survivorship
    Faculty Member, Departments of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, and Psychology
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Original lecture date: September 24

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    3D Chromosomal Organization in Pediatric Leukemia: Impact for Drug Response and Disease Progression

    Iannis Aifantis, PhD
    Professor and Chair
    Department of Pathology and Perlmutter Cancer Center
    NYU Grossman School of Medicine
    Original lecture date: October 1

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    Medulloblastomics 2020: Biological & Clinical Insights From 1,000s of Patients

    Paul A. Northcott, PhD
    Associate Faculty Member, Department of Developmental Neurobiology
    Division of Brain Tumor Research
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Original lecture date: October 8

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    CAR T Cells for Pediatric Cancers: Progress and Challenges

    Crystal Mackall, MD
    Ernest and Amelia Gallo Family Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
    Founding Director, Stanford Center for Cancer Cell Therapy
    Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Stanford
    Associate Director, Stanford Cancer Institute
    Leader, Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Program
    Director, Cancer Immunotherapy Program
    Department of Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology
    Department of Medicine - Blood & Marrow Transplantation
    Stanford University
    Original lecture date: October 15

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    Partitioning of Cancer Therapeutics in Nuclear Condensates

    Richard A. Young, PhD
    Professor, Department of Biology
    Member, Whitehead Institute
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

    Isaac A. Klein, MD, PhD
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Whitehead Institute
    Original lecture date: October 22

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    Harnessing Lineage Plasticity for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma

    Rani George, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
    Dept. of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children's Hospital
    Original lecture date: October 29

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    Organized Destruction and Destructive Organization: The Diversity of Immune Responses Towards Tumors and Pathogens

    Paul G. Thomas, PhD
    Faculty Member, Department of Immunology
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Original lecture date: November 5

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    Targeting Neuron-Glial Interactions in Childhood Brain Cancer

    Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
    Stanford University
    Original lecture date: November 12

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    Emerging Late Effects of Targeted Molecular Therapies

    Eric Chow, MD, MPH
    Associate Professor, Clinical Research Division
    Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences Division
    Director, Prevention Center Shared Resource
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    Medical Director, Cancer Survivorship Program
    Seattle Children's Hospital
    Associate Professor, Pediatrics
    University of Washington
    Original lecture date: November 19

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