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.
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Date Speaker Lecture Title 02/06/2025 Martine Roussel, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Endowed Chair in Molecular OncogenesisDeveloping new models and therapies for high-risk pediatric embryonal brain tumors
02.13.2025 James R. Downing, MD
President and CEO
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo MD
Chair, Department of Global Pediatric Medicine
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalTransforming global pediatric cancer care: an update on strategies to address global inequities in childhood cancer care and control
02.27.2025 Jan-Henning Klusmann, MD, PhD
Director of the Department of Pediatrics, Professor for Pediatric
Goethe University FrankfurtTargeting aberrant splicing in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia 03.06.2025 Rising Star of Cancer Research:
Stephanie Dixon, MD, MPH
Assistant Member
St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalCardiometabolic risk factors in survivorship: a target to reduce morbidity and mortality
03.06.2025 Rising Star of Cancer Research:
Cindy Im, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
University of MinnesotaPrecision survivorship: predicting primary ovarian insufficiency risk in female survivors of childhood cancer
03.13.2025 Greg Wang, PhD
Professor
Duke Cancer Institute and Duke University School of MedicineChromatin-based regulations of gene transcription and oncogenesis
03.20.2025 Chris Jones, PhD
Head of Division of Molecular Pathology
Institute of Cancer Research, London UKLineage-specific dependencies in paediatric-type diffuse high-grade glioma
03.27.2025 Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD
Edward P. Evans Chair in MDS; Chair, Molecular Pharmacology Program
Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterNew therapeutic approaches for myeloid & lymphoid leukemias 04.03.2025 Hanna Mikkola, MD, PhD
Professor, Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California Los Angeles
Dissecting human hematopoietic stem cell development, self-renewal and transformation 04.10.2025 Rob Wechsler-Reya, PhD
H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurological Sciences, Department of Neurology
Scientific Director of Brain Tumor Research, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University Medical CenterLess heat, more light: discovering smarter therapies for pediatric brain tumors 04.17.2025 Paul Ekert, MB.BS, PhD, FRACP
Deputy Director, Children’s Cancer Institute, UNSW
Group Leader, Translational Tumour Biology Laboratory
Head, Translational Genomics ZERO Childhood Cancer ProgramThe ZERO Childhood Cancer - a national pediatric cancer precision medicine program
04.24.2025 Doug Hawkins, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital
Looking back and looking forward for the Children’s Oncology Group
05.01.2025 Tanja Mittag, PhD
Member, Department of Structural Biology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Dissecting mechanisms underlying transcription factor phase separation in function and disease
05.08.2025 Chris Vakoc, MD, PhD
Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Transcriptional dependencies in cancer
05.15.2025 Leonard Zon, MD
Director, Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical SchoolThe leukemic niche - endothelial and macrophage control of clonality
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Speaker Lecture Title 08.08.2024 Rob Pieters, MD PhD MSc
Chief Medical Officer
Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric OncologyRecent results from translational and clinical studies in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the Princess Máxima Center
08.15.2024 Rising Star of Cancer Research: Kyle Daniels, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Stanford University School of MedicineDecoding CAR T-cell phenotype using combinatorial signaling motif libraries and machine learning
08.15.2024 Rising Star of Cancer Research:
Evan Weber, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaTargeting transcription factors to augment CAR T cell fitness
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 HospitalEngineered cell therapy for pediatric cancer
08.29.2024 Guillermina Lozano, PhD
Chair, Department of Genetics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterWild type and mutant p53 functions
09.05.2024 Charles WM Roberts, MD PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Executive Vice President
Director, Comprehensive Cancer CenterChromatin and cancer: from mechanisms to emerging therapies
09.12.2024 Torsten Haferlach, MD PhD
CEO
Munich Leukemia LaboratoryDiagnosis of leukemia: from phenotype to genotype to artificial intelligence
09.19.2024 Adam Palmer, PhD
Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine Program
Department of Pharmacology
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of North Carolina, Chapel HillModeling curative combination therapies
09.26.2024 Howard Chang, MD PhD
Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteCancer 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 MedicineRNA biology in MDS and modeling myelodysplasia
10.10.2024 Cynthia Hawkins, MD, PhD
Neuropathologist, The Hospital for Sick Children
Professor, University of TorontoOncogenesis in pediatric glioma, moving beyond the genome
10.17.2024 Mark Hatley, MD, PhD
Associate Member
Director Division of Molecular Oncology
Department of OncologyDevelopmental heterogeneity in rhabdomyosarcoma
10.24.2024 Greg Reaman, MD
Scientific Director, Childhood Cancer Data Initiative
National Cancer InstituteThe Childhood Cancer Data Initiative: An update
10.31.2024 Wendy Landier, PhD, CRNP
Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
University of Alabama at BirminghamAddressing the challenges of HPV vaccination in young cancer survivors
11.07.2024 Alexander Stark, PhD
Senior Group Leader
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Vienna, AustriaDecoding transcriptional regulation
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11.14.2024 Michael Dyer, PhD
Chair, Developmental Neurobiology Department
Co-Leader, Developmental Biology & Solid Tumor Program
Richard C. Shadyac Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cancer Research
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical InstituteDevelopmental programs contribute to chemoresistance in pediatric solid tumors
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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 DiegoSingle-cell epigenome analysis: methods and applications
Lecture not archived02.15.2024 Jian Xu, PhD
Member, Center of Excellence for Leukemia Studies, Department of Pathology
St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalUnderstanding and targeting the non-coding regulatory genome
Watch video02.22.2024 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 NetherlandsMolecular and clinical analyses of rare pediatric brain tumor types
Lecture not archived02.29.2024 Sharon Castellino, MD, MSc
Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaBeyond owl eyes - advances in pediatric and AYA Hodgkin lymphoma
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 HospitalDissecting epigenetic control of transcription in pediatric cancer
Jarno Drost, PhD
Group leader, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
Group leader, Oncode InstituteOrganoids in pediatric cancer research
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 ProgramNon-genetic mechanisms of clonal dominance in normal and malignant haematopoiesis
03.21.2024 Kara Davis, DO
Stanford UniversityUnderstanding treatment resistance and relapse in ALL through single cell studies
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 MedicineStem cell programs in high risk leukemias
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 InstituteQuality of care for adolescents and young adults with advanced cancer
04.11.2024 Poul Sorensen, BSc, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
The University of British ColumbiaTargeting 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 JerseyNovel therapeutic targets in T-cell Leukemia
Lecture not archived04.25.2024 Gilles Vassal, MD, PhD
Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, Villejuif, FranceAccelerating therapeutic innovations for children and adolescents with cancer
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 SchoolMetabolism and epigenetics as integrated drivers of childhood brain cancer
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 CenterPoverty as a "druggable" target: opportunities and challenges for health equity research Matt Ehrhardt, MD, MS
Associate Member
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalGuideline 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 HospitalImproving Cognitive Outcomes for Children Treated for Cancer: Moving Beyond the Cure
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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 ServicesCell therapies for pediatric solid tumors – Beyond conventional CAR-T
Lecture not archived08.17.2023 Seth Karol, MD
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchNovel venetoclax combinations for relapsed pediatric leukemia
Watch lecture08.17.2023 Brian Crompton, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchLiquid biopsies in pediatric solid tumors: refining treatment and studying tumor evolution
Lecture not archived08.24.2023 Benjamin Greenbaum, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Weill Cornell MedicineTranslating the self/nonself discrimination problem in cancer
Watch lecture08.31.2023 Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical SchoolSounding an alarm: Innate immunity makes cancer immunogenic
Watch lecture09.07.2023 David Langenau, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Mass General Cancer CenterPushing for new biology and cancer therapies in rhabdomyosarcoma
Watch lecture09.14.2023 Frank Westermann, MD
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, GermanyChildhood neuroblastoma: evolution and malignant progression
Watch lecture09.21.2023 Sara Federico, MD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalAdvancing Outcomes for Patients with Neuroblastoma
Watch lecture09.28.2023 Paul Nathan, MD, MSc
The Hospital for Sick Children
University of TorontoThe financial burden of surviving childhood cancer
Watch lecture10.05.2023 Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD
University of California-San FranciscoGenomic analysis of osteosarcoma: Making sense of a complex genome to advance translational research and targeted therapy
Watch lecture10.12.2023 Sam Blackman, MD, PhD
Day One BiopharmaceuticalsOpportunities and challenges in pediatric oncology drug development: Lessons learned from the biopharmaceutical industry
Watch lecture10.19.2023 Feng Yue, PhD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of MedicineEpigenetic and 3D genome alteration in cancer
Lecture not archived10.26.2023 Annie Huang, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
Hospital for Sick Children
University of TorontoDrivers of transformation in embryonal tumors with multi-layered rosettes (ETMRs)
Watch lecture11.02.2023 Julie Park, MD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalNeuroblastoma: The power of immunotherapy in pediatric malignancy
Watch lecture11.09.2023 Saro Armenian, DO, MPH
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer CenterEmerging paradigms in cancer survivorship across the lifespan
Watch lecture11.16.2023 Sam Behjati, BMBCh, PhD
Wellcome Sanger Institute
University of Cambridge, UKThe origins of childhood cancer
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Date Speaker Lecture Title 02.16.2023 Benjamin Ebert, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteClonal Hematopoiesis and the Origins of Blood Cancers
Watch lecture02.23.2023 Leontien CM Kremer, MD, PhD
Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The NetherlandsThe Dutch Childhood Cancer Survivor Study LATER; Results and Implications
Lecture not archived03.02.2023 Trey Ideker, PhD
University of California, San DiegoBuilding a Mind for Cancer
Lecture not archived03.09.2023 Tara M. Brinkman, PhD
St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalPsychological and Biobehavioral Health Outcomes in Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Watch lecture03.16.2023 Mario Suva, MD, PhD
Mass General Hospital
Harvard Medical SchoolDissecting Adult and Pediatric Gliomas by Single-cell Genomics
Lecture not archived03.23.2023 Giedre Krenciute, PhD
St Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchWhat will it take to make CARTs effective for pediatric brain tumors?
Watch lecture03.23.2023 Maksim Mamonkin, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchCAR T-cells for T-cell Malignancies: Proving and Improving
Watch lecture03.30.2023 Kathrin M. Bernt, MD
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of PennsylvaniaHOX-high Leukemias in Childhood
Watch lecture04.06.2023 Miguel N. Rivera, MD
Harvard Medical School
Mass General HospitalMechanisms of chromatin regulation by EWS fusion proteins
Watch lecture04.13.2023 Asya Agulnik, MD, MPH
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalHarnessing Implementation Science to Improve Outcomes for Children with Cancer who Develop Critical Illness
Watch lecture04.20.2023 Amar Gajjar, MD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalEvolution of Our Understanding of WNT and SHH Medulloblastoma
Watch lecture04.27.2023 Fernando Camargo, PhD
Harvard UniversityLineage Histories and Function in the Hematopoietic System
Lecture not archived05.04.2023 Sarah K Tasian, MD
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaEmerging Therapies for Pediatric Leukemia
Watch lecture05.11.2023 Gerald Crabtree, MD
Stanford UniversityRewiring Cancer Drivers to Activate Apoptosis
Watch lecture05.18.2023 Jeffery M. Klco, MD, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalNew mechanistic insights into the development of pediatric myeloid tumors
Watch lecture05.25.2023 Kim E. Nichols, MD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalHereditary Predisposition to Cancer: At the Tip of the Iceberg
Watch lecture06.08.2023 Jinghui Zhang, PhD
Clay McLeod
Kirsten K. Ness, PT, PhD, FAPTA
Xin Zhou, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalNew BIG data resources on St Jude Cloud: The Pediatric Cancer Knowledgebase (PeCanV2) and Survivorship Portal
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Date Speaker Lecture Title 08.11.2022 Carl H. June, MD
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaEngineered T Cells for Cancer Therapy
Watch lecture08.18.2022 Benjamin Youngblood, PhD
St Jude Children’s Research HospitalIdentifying Epigenetic Mechanisms of Failure in T Cell-Based Immunotherapy
Lecture not archived08.25.2022 Nada Jabado, MD, PhD
McGill UniversityOncohistones Organize Chromatin Architecture to Regulate Developmental Programs
Watch lecture09.01.2022 Trever Bivona, MD, PhD
University of California, San FranciscoA New Model of Oncogenic Kinase Signaling via Membraneless Cytoplasmic Protein Granules
Watch lecture09.08.2022 John M. Maris, MD
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaDesigning and Developing Pediatric Cancer-Specific Immunotherapies
Watch lecture09.15.2022 David Malkin, MD, FRCPC
The Hospital for Sick Children
University of TorontoThe Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Genomic Landscape: Harnessing p53 for Clinical Utility
Lecture not archived09.22.2022 Leslie S. Kean, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteFrom Bedside to Bench and Back to Bedside: Travels in the Systems Biology of GVHD
Watch lecture09.29.2022 Malcolm A. Smith, MD, PhD
National Cancer InstitutePediatric Oncology Drug Development – Learning from Past Successes to Create a Better Future
Watch lecture10.06.2022 Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterTargeting Bcl-2 Family Proteins in Leukemia
Watch lecture10.13.2022 Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD
St. Jude Global
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalCuring Childhood Cancer and Curing Children with Cancer – Strategies to Address Global Inequities in Childhood Cancer Care and Control
Watch lecture10.20.2022 Jolanta Grembecka, PhD
University of MichiganTherapeutic Targeting of Epigenetic Modifiers in Leukemia
Lecture not archived10.27.2022 Greg Armstrong, MD, MSCE
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalThe Lifetime Impact of Childhood Cancer and Cancer Therapy: The Childhood Cancer Survivor Study
Watch lecture11.03.2022 Dr. Geneviève Almouzni
Institut Curie - Research Center / CNRSHistone Variants and Chaperones in Shaping Chromatin and Cell Fate
Lecture not archived11.10.2022 Robbie Majzner, MD
Stanford University
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchCo-opting the TCR Machinery to Enhance CAR T Cell Efficacy and Specificity
Watch lecture11.10.2022 Pratiti (Mimi) Bandopadhayay, MBBS, PhD
Dana-Farber/Boston Childen's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchThe Evolution of Pediatric Gliomas
Watch lecture11.17.2022 Sogol Mostoufi-Moab, MD, MSCE
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaPrognostic Significance of Aberrant Body Composition and Musculoskeletal Deficits in Childhood Cancer Survivors
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Date Speaker Lecture Title 02.10.2022 Kevin Oeffinger, MD
Duke UniversitySecondary Breast Cancer: A Paradigm for Survivorship Research
Watch lecture02.17.2022 Akiko Shimamura, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders CenterClonal Evolution and Somatic Reversion in Genetic Predisposition to TP53-Mutated MDS
Watch lecture02.24.2022 Ralph J. DeBerardinis, MD, PhD
Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT SouthwesternHuman Metabolic Outliers
Lecture not archived03.03.2022 Yaël Mossé, MD
Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaDiscovering and Targeting Neuroblastoma Vulnerabilities: ALK Inhibition as a Paradigm
Watch lecture03.10.2022 Hongbo Chi, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalFunctional Genomics of T-Cell Metabolism and Immuno-oncology
Watch lecture03.17.2022 Prof. Dr. Stefan M. Pfister
Hopp Children's Cancer Center
Heidelberg University HospitalMapping Childhood Brain Tumor Profiles Onto Normal Development Identifies Novel Therapeutic Vulnerabilities
Watch lecture03.24.2022 Jiyang Yu, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalTargeting Hidden Drivers Toward Precision Oncology
Watch lecture03.31.2022 Katherine A. Janeway, MD, MMSc
Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteLearning From Children: Designing Better Clinical Trials with Their Data
Watch lecture04.07.2022 Alejandro Gutierrez, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.Pathobiology of asparaginase resistance
Lecture not archived04.14.2022 Yutaka Yasui, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalWhat Can We Learn From GWAS Data? Genetic Heterogeneity and Rare Variant Hypothesis of Cancer Risk
Watch lecture04.21.2022 Suzanne J. Baker, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalDisrupted Development in Pediatric High-Grade Glioma
Lecture not archived04.28.2022 Liling Wan, PhD
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchReading Epigenetic Landscape: New Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities
Lecture not archived04.29.2022 David Chen, PhD
City of Hope Cancer CenterIdentify Novel Therapeutic Opportunities in Pediatric Cancers Using High-Resolution CRISPR Tiling Scans
Watch lecture05.05.2022 Jun J. Yang, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalUnraveling the Heterogeneity of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Through the Lens of Pharmacogenomics
Watch lecture05.12.2022 Lindsay M. Morton, PhD
National Cancer InstituteGenetic Susceptibility to Subsequent Neoplasms Following Childhood Cancer
Watch lecture05.19.2022 Charalampos Kalodimos, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalThe Conformational Landscape of Protein Kinases in Physiology and Disease
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Date Speaker Lecture title 08.12.2021 Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS (Hons), MSc, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalDeconvoluting the Origins of Acute Leukemia
Watch lecture08.19.2021 Meredith Irwin, MD
The Hospital for Sick ChildrenIdentification of Biomarkers, Models and Targets to Improve Outcomes and Precision Approaches for Neuroblastoma
Watch lecture08.26.2021 Olivier Delattre, MD, PhD
Institut Curie, Paris, FranceModulation of the Activity of the Dominant Oncogene EWS-FLI1 by Germline Polymorphisms and Cohesin Mutations
Watch lecture09.02.2021 Melissa M. Hudson, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalThe Role of Survivorship Research in Advancing Childhood Cancer Care and Quality of Survival
Watch lecture09.09.2021 Dan A. Landau, MD, PhD
Weill Cornell Medical CollegeDeciphering Somatic Evolution with Single-Cell Multi-Omics
Lecture not archived09.16.2021 David T. Teachey, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of MedicineThe Biology, Diagnosis, and Management of T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Lymphoma
Watch lecture09.23.2021 David E. Fisher, MD, PhD
Mass General Hospital & Harvard Medical SchoolSunlight and Skin: Lessons for Melanoma Therapeutics From Its Unique Pathogenesis
Watch lecture09.30.2021 Matt Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MITInfluence of Metabolism on Cancer Progression
Watch lecture10.07.2021 Saar Gill, MBBS, PhD, FRACP
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchChimeric Antigen Receptor-Redirected Macrophages for the Treatement of Solid Tumors
Watch lecture10.07.2021 Yvonne Chen, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchEngineering Next-Generation CAR-T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy
Lecture not archived10.14.2021 Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteEpigenetic Mechanisms of Tumorigenesis
Watch lecture10.21.2021 Mignon Loh, MD
Benioff Children’s Hospital, UCSF, San Francisco, CAWhat Will it Take To Cure Every Child with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia?
Watch lecture10.28.2021 Martin Pule, MB, FRCPath
University College LondonCAR T Cell Therapies for Childhood Cancer, the University College London Experience
Watch lecture11.04.2021 Kirsten K. Ness, PT, PhD, FAPTA
St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalInterventions to Prevent or Remediate Frailty in Childhood Cancer Survivors
Watch lecture11.11.2021 Giles Robinson, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchTailoring Medulloblastoma Therapy to Fit the Evolving Molecular Landscape
Watch lecture11.11.2021 Mariella Filbin, MD, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Rising Stars of Cancer ResearchDevelopmental Pathways, Plasticity and Novel Treatment Opportunities in Pediatric High-Grade Brain Tumors
Lecture not archived11.18.2021 Douglas R. Green, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalPersister Act: Near-Death Experiences in Cancer Cells
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Date Speaker Lecture Title 01.28.2021 Jinghui Zhang, PhD
St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalGenomic Variants in Pediatric Cancer: Landscape, Precision Oncology, and Data Sharing Ecosystem
Watch lecture02.04.2021 Richard Gilbertson, MD, PhD
University of Cambridge, EnglandWill We Ever Cure Cancer?
Watch lecture02.11.2021 Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD
Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders CenterChromatin Complexes as Therapeutic Opportunities in Cancer
Watch lecture02.18.2021 Robin Yabroff, PhD, MBA
American Cancer SocietyFinancial Hardship After Childhood Cancer
Watch lecture02.25.2021 John Crispino, PhD, MBA
St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalMechanisms of Leukemogenesis in Children with Down Syndrome
Watch lecture03.04.2021 Sheila Singh, MD, PhD, FRCS(C)
McMaster Children's Hospital, McMaster UniversityTherapeutic Targeting of Self-Renewal of Medulloblastoma Stem Cells: Strategies for Blocking Recurrence
Watch lecture03.11.2021 Aviv Regev, PhD
GenentechSingle Cell Atlases as Roadmaps in Pediatric Cancer
Watch lecture03.18.2021 Douglas S. Hawkins, MD
University of Washington School of MedicineSuccesses and Challenges in Pediatric Cancer: The COG Perspective
Watch lecture03.25.2021 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 lecture04.01.2021 Karen Vousden, PhD
The Francis Crick InstituteA Role for Metabolism in Cancer Development and Progression
Lecture not archived04.08.2021 Anne Kirchhoff, PhD, MPH
University of Utah/Huntsman Cancer InstituteIdentifying Strategies to Improve HPV Vaccination Among Childhood Cancer Survivors
Watch lecture04.15.2021 Madan Babu, PhD, FRSC
St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalData Science Approaches to GPCR Signaling and Personalized Medicine
Watch lecture04.22.2021 Zhaoming Wang, PhD
St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalGenetic and Epigenetic Approaches Towards Understanding Risk of Chronic Health Conditions Among Survivors of Childhood Cancer
Watch lecture04.29.2021 Kimberly Stegmaier, MD
Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteA First-generation Pediatric Cancer Dependency Map
Watch lecture05.06.2021 Cigall Kadoch, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteStructure and Function of Mammalian SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complexes in Human Cancer
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Date Speaker Lecture Title 08.14.2020 Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterCAR T Cells: On the Road to Synthetic Immunity
Watch lecture08.20.2020 Charles W.M. Roberts, MD, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalChromatin Remodeler Mutations in Cancer: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities
Watch lecture08.27.2020 Terry J. Fry, MD
University of Colorado School of MedicineThe Future of CAR T Cells for Hematologic Malignancies: Beyond Antigen Targeting
Watch lecture09.03..2020 Richard W. Kriwacki, PhD
St. Jude Children's REsearch HospitalPhase Separation in Gene Transcription: From the Nucleolus to Aberrant Transcription in Leukemia
Watch lecture09.10.2020 Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH
School of Medicine, University of Alabama at BirminghamLate Effects Among Survivors of Blood or Marrow Transplantation
Watch lecture09.17.2020 Christine Brown, PhD
City of HopeAdvancing CAR T Cells for the Treatment of Glioblastoma: Progress and Challenges
Lecture not archived09.24.2020 Kevin R. Krull, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalCognitive Outcomes of Childhood Cancer: Neurophysiology, Biomarkers and Interventions
Watch lecture10.01.2020 Iannis Aifantis, PhD
New York University Grossman School of Medicine3D Chromosomal Organization in Pediatric Leukemia: Impact for Drug Response and Disease Progression
Watch lecture10.08.2020 Paul A. Northcott, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalMedulloblastomics 2020: Biological & Clinical Insights From 1,000s of Patients
Watch lecture10.15.2020 Crystal Mackall, MD
Stanford UniversityCAR T Cells for Pediatric Cancers: Progress and Challenges
Watch lecture10.22.2020 Richard A. Young, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Isaac A. Klein, MD, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer InstitutePartitioning of Cancer Therapeutics in Nuclear Condensates
Watch lecture10.29.2020 Rani George, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteHarnessing Lineage Plasticity for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma
Watch lecture11.05.2020 Paul G. Thomas, PhD
St. Jude Children's Research HospitalOrganized Destruction and Destructive Organization: The Diversity of Immune Responses Towards Tumors and Pathogens
Watch lecture11.12.2020 Michelle Monje, MD, PhD
Stanford UniversityTargeting Neuron-Glial Interactions in Childhood Brain Cancer
Watch lecture11.19.2020 Eric Chow, MD, MPH
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterEmerging Late Effects of Targeted Molecular Therapies
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