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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. View past lectures organized by category.

 
 

Prior Lectures: 2020-2024

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    Speaker Lecture Title
    08.08.2024

    Rob Pieters, MD PhD MSc

    Chief Medical Officer
    Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology

    Recent results from translational and clinical studies in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the Princess Máxima Center

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    Rising Stars of Cancer Research


    08.15.2024 

    Kyle Daniels, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Genetics
    Stanford University School of Medicine 

    Decoding CAR T-cell phenotype using combinatorial signaling motif libraries and machine learning

    Evan Weber, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    University of Pennsylvania
    Children’s Hospital of

    Philadelphia

    Targeting transcription factors to augment CAR T cell fitness

    Watch video (both lectures)
     
    08.22.2024

    Stephen Gottschalk, MD

    Chair, Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
    Co-Director, Center of Excellence for Pediatric Immuno-Oncology
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

    Engineered cell therapy for pediatric cancer

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    08.29.2024

    Guillermina Lozano, PhD

    Chair, Department of Genetics
    The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Wild type and mutant p53 functions

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    09.05.2024

    Charles WM Roberts, MD PhD

    Member, St. Jude Faculty
    Executive Vice President
    Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Chromatin and cancer: from mechanisms to emerging therapies

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    09.12.2024

    Torsten Haferlach, MD PhD

    CEO
    Munich Leukemia Laboratory

    Diagnosis of leukemia: from phenotype to genotype to artificial intelligence 

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    09.19.2024

    Adam Palmer, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine Program
    Department of Pharmacology
    Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
    University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    Modeling curative combination therapies

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    09.26.2024

    Howard Chang, MD PhD

    Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
    Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Cancer genes beyond chromosomes
    10.03.2024

    Stephanie Halene, MD

    Chief, Section of Hematology
    Department of Internal Medicine and Yale Cancer Center
    Yale University School of Medicine

    RNA biology in MDS and modeling myelodysplasia
    10.10.2024

    Cynthia Hawkins, MD, PhD

    Neuropathologist, The Hospital for Sick Children
    Professor, University of Toronto

    Oncogenesis in pediatric glioma, moving beyond the genome
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    Speaker Lecture Title
    02.08.2024 Bing Ren, PhD
    Director, Center for Epigenomics; Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
    University of California, San Diego
    Single-cell epigenome analysis: methods and applications
    Lecture not archived
    02.15.2024 Jian Xu, PhD
    Member, Center of Excellence for Leukemia Studies, Department of Pathology
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Understanding and targeting the non-coding regulatory genome
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    02.22.2024 Marcel Kool, PhD
    Group leader, deputy division head, Division of Pediatric Neuro-oncology, Hopp Children’s Cancer Center (KiTZ) & German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
    Heidelberg, Germany
    Group leaders, Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology, Utrecht, the Netherlands
    Professor, pediatric brain tumors,
    University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
    Molecular and clinical analyses of rare pediatric brain tumor types
    Lecture not archived
    02.29.2024 Sharon Castellino, MD, MSc
    Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
    Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

    Beyond owl eyes - advances in pediatric and AYA Hodgkin lymphoma

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    03.07.2024

    Rising Stars of  Cancer Research

    Adam Durbin, MD, PhD
    Assistant Member, Division of Molecular Oncology, Department of Oncology
    St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital

    Dissecting epigenetic control of transcription in pediatric cancer

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    Jarno Drost, PhD
    Group leader, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
    Group leader, Oncode Institute

    Organoids in pediatric cancer research

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    03.14.2024 Mark Dawson, MBBS (Hons), BMedSci, FRACP, FRCPA, PhD 
    Professor, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology & Centre for Cancer Research
    University of Melbourne
    HHMI International Research Scholar, CCV Sir Edward Dunlop Fellow, Associate Director for Research Translation, Consultant Haematologist (RMH / PMCC)
    Head, Cancer Biology & Therapeutics Program

    Non-genetic mechanisms of clonal dominance in normal and malignant haematopoiesis

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    03.21.2024 Kara Davis, DO
    Stanford University    

    Understanding treatment resistance and relapse in ALL through single cell studies

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    03.28.2024 Kai Tan, PhD
    Professor of Pediatrics, Richard & Sheila Sanford Endowed Chair
    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
    University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

    Stem cell programs in high risk leukemias

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    04.04.2024 Jenny Mack, MD, MPH
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    Harvard Medical School
    Associate Chief, Division of Population Sciences, Division of Population Sciences, Faculty Vice President for the Office for Faculty Development, Professionalism, and Inclusion
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Quality of care for adolescents and young adults with advanced cancer

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    04.11.2024 Poul Sorensen, BSc, MD, PhD, FRCPC
    Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
    The University of British Columbia
    Targeting metabolic vulnerabilities in high-risk childhood cancer using immunotherapy (and other modalities)
    04.18.2024 Daniel Herranz, PharmD, PhD
    Associate Professor of Pharmacology and PediatricsRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey 
    Novel therapeutic targets in T-cell Leukemia
    Lecture not archived
    04.25.2024 Gilles Vassal, MD, PhD
    Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, Villejuif, France

    Accelerating therapeutic innovations for children and adolescents with cancer 

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    05.02.2024 Sriram Venneti, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor of Pathology and Pediatrics; Al and Robert Glick Family Research Professor of Pediatrics; Scientific Research Director, Chad Carr Pediatric Brain Tumor Center, University of Michigan Medical School

    Metabolism and epigenetics as integrated drivers of childhood brain cancer

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    05.09.2024 Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    Kira Bona, MD, MPH
    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    Harvard Medical School
    Attending Physician, Pediatric Oncology
    Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
    Poverty as a "druggable" target: opportunities and challenges for health equity research
    Matt Ehrhardt, MD, MS
    Associate Member
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Guideline development and delivery of precision-survivorship care
    05.16.2024

    Heather Conklin, PhD
    Chief, Division of Neuropsychology; Full Member, Department of Psychology and Biobehavioral Sciences
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

    Improving Cognitive Outcomes for Children Treated for Cancer: Moving Beyond the Cure

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  3. Date Speaker Lecture Title
    08.10.2023 Catherine Bollard, MBChB, MD
    Children's National Hospital,
    Children's National Research Institute
    The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Services
    Cell therapies for pediatric solid tumors – Beyond conventional CAR-T
    Lecture not archived
    08.17.2023 Seth Karol, MD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    Novel venetoclax combinations for relapsed pediatric leukemia
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    08.17.2023 Brian Crompton, MD
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    Liquid biopsies in pediatric solid tumors: refining treatment and studying tumor evolution
    Lecture not archived
    08.24.2023 Benjamin Greenbaum, PhD
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Weill Cornell Medicine
    Translating the self/nonself discrimination problem in cancer
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    08.31.2023 Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD
    Harvard Medical School
    Sounding an alarm: Innate immunity makes cancer immunogenic
    Watch lecture
    09.07.2023 David Langenau, PhD
    Harvard Medical School
    Mass General Cancer Center
    Pushing for new biology and cancer therapies in rhabdomyosarcoma
    Watch lecture
    09.14.2023 Frank Westermann, MD
    German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
    Childhood neuroblastoma: evolution and malignant progression
    Watch lecture
    09.21.2023 Sara Federico, MD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Advancing Outcomes for Patients with Neuroblastoma
    Watch lecture
    09.28.2023 Paul Nathan, MD, MSc
    The Hospital for Sick Children
    University of Toronto
    The financial burden of surviving childhood cancer
    Watch lecture
    10.05.2023 Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD
    University of California-San Francisco
    Genomic analysis of osteosarcoma: Making sense of a complex genome to advance translational research and targeted therapy
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    10.12.2023 Sam Blackman, MD, PhD
    Day One Biopharmaceuticals
    Opportunities and challenges in pediatric oncology drug development: Lessons learned from the biopharmaceutical industry
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    10.19.2023 Feng Yue, PhD
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Epigenetic and 3D genome alteration in cancer
    Lecture not archived
    10.26.2023 Annie Huang, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
    Hospital for Sick Children
    University of Toronto
    Drivers of transformation in embryonal tumors with multi-layered rosettes (ETMRs)
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    11.02.2023 Julie Park, MD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Neuroblastoma: The power of immunotherapy in pediatric malignancy
    Watch lecture
    11.09.2023 Saro Armenian, DO, MPH
    City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Emerging paradigms in cancer survivorship across the lifespan
    Watch lecture
    11.16.2023 Sam Behjati, BMBCh, PhD
    Wellcome Sanger Institute
    University of Cambridge, UK
    The origins of childhood cancer
    Watch lecture
  4. Date Speaker Lecture Title
    02.16.2023 Benjamin Ebert, MD, PhD
    Harvard Medical School
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Clonal Hematopoiesis and the Origins of Blood Cancers
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    02.23.2023 Leontien CM Kremer, MD, PhD
    Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    The Dutch Childhood Cancer Survivor Study LATER; Results and Implications
    Lecture not archived
    03.02.2023 Trey Ideker, PhD
    University of California,  San Diego
    Building a Mind for Cancer
    Lecture not archived
    03.09.2023 Tara M. Brinkman, PhD
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Psychological and Biobehavioral Health Outcomes in Survivors of Childhood Cancer
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    03.16.2023 Mario Suva, MD, PhD
    Mass General Hospital
    Harvard Medical School
    Dissecting Adult and Pediatric Gliomas by Single-cell Genomics
    Lecture not archived
    03.23.2023 Giedre Krenciute, PhD
    St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    What will it take to make CARTs effective for pediatric brain tumors?
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    03.23.2023 Maksim Mamonkin, PhD
    Baylor College of Medicine
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    CAR T-cells for T-cell Malignancies: Proving and Improving
    Watch lecture
    03.30.2023 Kathrin M. Bernt, MD
    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    University of Pennsylvania
    HOX-high Leukemias in Childhood
    Watch lecture
    04.06.2023 Miguel N. Rivera, MD
    Harvard Medical School
    Mass General Hospital
    Mechanisms of chromatin regulation by EWS fusion proteins
    Watch lecture
    04.13.2023 Asya Agulnik, MD, MPH
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Harnessing Implementation Science to Improve Outcomes for Children with Cancer who Develop Critical Illness
    Watch lecture
    04.20.2023 Amar Gajjar, MD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Evolution of Our Understanding of WNT and SHH Medulloblastoma
    Watch lecture
    04.27.2023 Fernando Camargo, PhD
    Harvard University
    Lineage Histories and Function in the Hematopoietic System
    Lecture not archived
    05.04.2023 Sarah K Tasian, MD
    Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Emerging Therapies for Pediatric Leukemia
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    05.11.2023 Gerald Crabtree, MD
    Stanford University
    Rewiring Cancer Drivers to Activate Apoptosis
    Watch lecture
    05.18.2023 Jeffery M. Klco, MD, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    New mechanistic insights into the development of pediatric myeloid tumors
    Watch lecture
    05.25.2023 Kim E. Nichols, MD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Hereditary Predisposition to Cancer: At the Tip of the Iceberg
    Watch lecture
    06.08.2023 Jinghui Zhang, PhD
    Clay McLeod

    Kirsten K. Ness, PT, PhD, FAPTA
    Xin Zhou, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    New BIG data resources on St Jude Cloud: The Pediatric Cancer Knowledgebase (PeCanV2) and Survivorship Portal
    Special Event
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  5. Date Speaker Lecture Title
    08.11.2022 Carl H. June, MD
    Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    Engineered T Cells for Cancer Therapy
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    08.18.2022 Benjamin Youngblood, PhD
    St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Identifying Epigenetic Mechanisms of Failure in T Cell-Based Immunotherapy
    Lecture not archived
    08.25.2022 Nada Jabado, MD, PhD
    McGill University
    Oncohistones Organize Chromatin Architecture to Regulate Developmental Programs
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    09.01.2022 Trever Bivona, MD, PhD
    University of California, San Francisco
    A New Model of Oncogenic Kinase Signaling via Membraneless Cytoplasmic Protein Granules
    Watch lecture
    09.08.2022 John M. Maris, MD
    Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    Designing and Developing Pediatric Cancer-Specific Immunotherapies
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    09.15.2022 David Malkin, MD, FRCPC
    The Hospital for Sick Children
    University of Toronto
    The Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Genomic Landscape: Harnessing p53 for Clinical Utility
    Lecture not archived
    09.22.2022 Leslie S. Kean, MD, PhD
    Harvard Medical School
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    From Bedside to Bench and Back to Bedside: Travels in the Systems Biology of GVHD
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    09.29.2022 Malcolm A. Smith, MD, PhD
    National Cancer Institute
    Pediatric Oncology Drug Development – Learning from Past Successes to Create a Better Future
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    10.06.2022 Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD
    University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Targeting Bcl-2 Family Proteins in Leukemia
    Watch lecture
    10.13.2022 Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD
    St. Jude Global
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Curing Childhood Cancer and Curing Children with Cancer – Strategies to Address Global Inequities in Childhood Cancer Care and Control
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    10.20.2022 Jolanta Grembecka, PhD
    University of Michigan
    Therapeutic Targeting of Epigenetic Modifiers in Leukemia
    Lecture not archived
    10.27.2022 Greg Armstrong, MD, MSCE
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    The Lifetime Impact of Childhood Cancer and Cancer Therapy: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study
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    11.03.2022 Dr. Geneviève Almouzni
    Institut Curie - Research Center / CNRS
    Histone Variants and Chaperones in Shaping Chromatin and Cell Fate
    Lecture not archived
    11.10.2022 Robbie Majzner, MD
    Stanford University
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    Co-opting the TCR Machinery to Enhance CAR T Cell Efficacy and Specificity
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    11.10.2022 Pratiti (Mimi) Bandopadhayay, MBBS, PhD
    Dana-Farber/Boston Childen's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    The Evolution of Pediatric Gliomas
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    11.17.2022 Sogol Mostoufi-Moab, MD, MSCE
    Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    Prognostic Significance of Aberrant Body Composition and Musculoskeletal Deficits in Childhood Cancer Survivors
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    02.10.2022 Kevin Oeffinger, MD
    Duke University
    Secondary Breast Cancer: A Paradigm for Survivorship Research
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    02.17.2022 Akiko Shimamura, MD, PhD
    Harvard Medical School
    Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
    Clonal Evolution and Somatic Reversion in Genetic Predisposition to TP53-Mutated MDS
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    02.24.2022 Ralph J. DeBerardinis, MD, PhD
    Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern
    Human Metabolic Outliers
    Lecture not archived
    03.03.2022 Yaël Mossé, MD
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Discovering and Targeting Neuroblastoma Vulnerabilities: ALK Inhibition as a Paradigm
    Watch lecture
    03.10.2022 Hongbo Chi, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Functional Genomics of T-Cell Metabolism and Immuno-oncology
    Watch lecture
    03.17.2022 Prof. Dr. Stefan M. Pfister
    Hopp Children's Cancer Center
    Heidelberg University Hospital
    Mapping Childhood Brain Tumor Profiles Onto Normal Development Identifies Novel Therapeutic Vulnerabilities
    Watch lecture
    03.24.2022 Jiyang Yu, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Targeting Hidden Drivers Toward Precision Oncology
    Watch lecture
    03.31.2022 Katherine A. Janeway, MD, MMSc
    Harvard Medical School
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Learning From Children: Designing Better Clinical Trials with Their Data
    Watch lecture
    04.07.2022 Alejandro Gutierrez, MD
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
    Pathobiology of asparaginase resistance
    Lecture not archived
    04.14.2022 Yutaka Yasui, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    What Can We Learn From GWAS Data?  Genetic Heterogeneity and Rare Variant Hypothesis of Cancer Risk
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    04.21.2022 Suzanne J. Baker, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Disrupted Development in Pediatric High-Grade Glioma
    Lecture not archived
    04.28.2022 Liling Wan, PhD
    Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    Reading Epigenetic Landscape: New Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities
    Lecture not archived
    04.29.2022 David Chen, PhD
    City of Hope Cancer Center
    Identify Novel Therapeutic Opportunities in Pediatric Cancers Using High-Resolution CRISPR Tiling Scans
    Watch lecture
    05.05.2022 Jun J. Yang, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Unraveling the Heterogeneity of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Through the Lens of Pharmacogenomics
    Watch lecture
    05.12.2022 Lindsay M. Morton, PhD
    National Cancer Institute
    Genetic Susceptibility to Subsequent Neoplasms Following Childhood Cancer
    Watch lecture
    05.19.2022 Charalampos Kalodimos, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    The Conformational Landscape of Protein Kinases in Physiology and Disease
    Watch lecture
  7. Date Speaker Lecture title
    08.12.2021 Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS (Hons), MSc, MD
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Deconvoluting the Origins of Acute Leukemia
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    08.19.2021 Meredith Irwin, MD
    The Hospital for Sick Children
    Identification of Biomarkers, Models and Targets to Improve Outcomes and Precision Approaches for Neuroblastoma
    Watch lecture
    08.26.2021 Olivier Delattre, MD, PhD
    Institut Curie, Paris, France
    Modulation of the Activity of the Dominant Oncogene EWS-FLI1 by Germline Polymorphisms and Cohesin Mutations
    Watch lecture
    09.02.2021 Melissa M. Hudson, MD
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    The Role of Survivorship Research in Advancing Childhood Cancer Care and Quality of Survival
    Watch lecture
    09.09.2021 Dan A. Landau, MD, PhD
    Weill Cornell Medical College
    Deciphering Somatic Evolution with Single-Cell Multi-Omics
    Lecture not archived
    09.16.2021 David T. Teachey, MD
    University of Pennsylvania
    Perelman School of Medicine
    The Biology, Diagnosis, and Management of T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Lymphoma
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    09.23.2021 David E. Fisher, MD, PhD
    Mass General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
    Sunlight and Skin: Lessons for Melanoma Therapeutics From Its Unique Pathogenesis
    Watch lecture
    09.30.2021 Matt Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
    Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
    Influence of Metabolism on Cancer Progression
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    10.07.2021 Saar Gill, MBBS, PhD, FRACP
    University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Redirected Macrophages for the Treatement of Solid Tumors
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    10.07.2021 Yvonne Chen, PhD
    University of California, Los Angeles
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    Engineering Next-Generation CAR-T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy
    Lecture not archived
    10.14.2021 Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Epigenetic Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis
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    10.21.2021 Mignon Loh, MD
    Benioff Children’s Hospital, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
    What Will it Take To Cure Every Child with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia?
    Watch lecture
    10.28.2021 Martin Pule, MB, FRCPath
    University College London
    CAR T Cell Therapies for Childhood Cancer, the University College London Experience
    Watch lecture
    11.04.2021 Kirsten K. Ness, PT, PhD, FAPTA
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Interventions to Prevent or Remediate Frailty in Childhood Cancer Survivors
    Watch lecture
    11.11.2021 Giles Robinson, MD
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    Tailoring Medulloblastoma Therapy to Fit the Evolving Molecular Landscape
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    11.11.2021 Mariella Filbin, MD, PhD
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Rising Stars of Cancer Research
    Developmental Pathways, Plasticity and Novel Treatment Opportunities in Pediatric High-Grade Brain Tumors
    Lecture not archived
    11.18.2021 Douglas R. Green, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Persister Act: Near-Death Experiences in Cancer Cells
    Lecture not archived
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    01.28.2021 Jinghui Zhang, PhD
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Genomic Variants in Pediatric Cancer: Landscape, Precision Oncology, and Data Sharing Ecosystem
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    02.04.2021 Richard Gilbertson, MD, PhD
    University of Cambridge, England
    Will We Ever Cure Cancer?
    Watch lecture
    02.11.2021 Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD
    Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
    Chromatin Complexes as Therapeutic Opportunities in Cancer
    Watch lecture
    02.18.2021 Robin Yabroff, PhD, MBA
    American Cancer Society
    Financial Hardship After Childhood Cancer
    Watch lecture
    02.25.2021 John Crispino, PhD, MBA
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Mechanisms of Leukemogenesis in Children with Down Syndrome
    Watch lecture
    03.04.2021 Sheila Singh, MD, PhD, FRCS(C)
    McMaster Children's Hospital, McMaster University
    Therapeutic Targeting of Self-Renewal of Medulloblastoma Stem Cells: Strategies for Blocking Recurrence
    Watch lecture
    03.11.2021 Aviv Regev, PhD
    Genentech
    Single Cell Atlases as Roadmaps in Pediatric Cancer
    Watch lecture
    03.18.2021 Douglas S. Hawkins, MD
    University of Washington School of Medicine
    Successes and Challenges in Pediatric Cancer: The COG Perspective
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    03.25.2021 David T.W. Jones, PhD
    Hopp Children’s Cancer Center (KiTZ)
    German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
    Pediatric High-grade Glioma – Novel Drivers Define a Spectrum of New Tumor Subgroups
    Watch lecture
    04.01.2021 Karen Vousden, PhD
    The Francis Crick Institute
    A Role for Metabolism in Cancer Development and Progression
    Lecture not archived
    04.08.2021 Anne Kirchhoff, PhD, MPH
    University of Utah/Huntsman Cancer Institute
    Identifying Strategies to Improve HPV Vaccination Among Childhood Cancer Survivors
    Watch lecture
    04.15.2021 Madan Babu, PhD, FRSC
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Data Science Approaches to GPCR Signaling and Personalized Medicine
    Watch lecture
    04.22.2021 Zhaoming Wang, PhD
    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    Genetic and Epigenetic Approaches Towards Understanding Risk of Chronic Health Conditions Among Survivors of Childhood Cancer
    Watch lecture
    04.29.2021 Kimberly Stegmaier, MD
    Harvard Medical School
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    A First-generation Pediatric Cancer Dependency Map
    Watch lecture
    05.06.2021 Cigall Kadoch, PhD
    Harvard Medical School
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 
    Structure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Human Cancer
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    08.14.2020 Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD
    Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
    CAR T Cells: On the Road to Synthetic Immunity 
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    08.20.2020 Charles W.M. Roberts, MD, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Chromatin Remodeler Mutations in Cancer: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities
    Watch lecture
    08.27.2020 Terry J. Fry, MD
    University of Colorado School of Medicine
    The Future of CAR T Cells for Hematologic Malignancies: Beyond Antigen Targeting
    Watch lecture
    09.03..2020 Richard W. Kriwacki, PhD
    St. Jude Children's REsearch Hospital
    Phase Separation in Gene Transcription: From the Nucleolus to Aberrant Transcription in Leukemia
    Watch lecture
    09.10.2020 Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH
    School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Late Effects Among Survivors of Blood or Marrow Transplantation
    Watch lecture
    09.17.2020 Christine Brown, PhD
    City of Hope
    Advancing CAR T Cells for the Treatment of Glioblastoma: Progress and Challenges
    Lecture not archived
    09.24.2020 Kevin R. Krull, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Cognitive Outcomes of Childhood Cancer: Neurophysiology, Biomarkers and Interventions
    Watch lecture
    10.01.2020 Iannis Aifantis, PhD
    New York University Grossman School of Medicine
    3D Chromosomal Organization in Pediatric Leukemia: Impact for Drug Response and Disease Progression
    Watch lecture
    10.08.2020 Paul A. Northcott, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Medulloblastomics 2020: Biological & Clinical Insights From 1,000s of Patients
    Watch lecture
    10.15.2020 Crystal Mackall, MD
    Stanford University
    CAR T Cells for Pediatric Cancers: Progress and Challenges
    Watch lecture
    10.22.2020 Richard A. Young, PhD
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Isaac A. Klein, MD, PhD
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Partitioning of Cancer Therapeutics in Nuclear Condensates
    Watch lecture
    10.29.2020 Rani George, MD, PhD
    Harvard Medical School
    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Harnessing Lineage Plasticity for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma
    Watch lecture
    11.05.2020 Paul G. Thomas, PhD
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    Organized Destruction and Destructive Organization: The Diversity of Immune Responses Towards Tumors and Pathogens
    Watch lecture
    11.12.2020 Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
    Stanford University
    Targeting Neuron-Glial Interactions in Childhood Brain Cancer
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    11.19.2020 Eric Chow, MD, MPH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    Emerging Late Effects of Targeted Molecular Therapies
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St. Jude is the first and only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children.

 
 
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