The Science of Childhood Cancer

A 15-week virtual lecture series

Chris Vakoc

Transcriptional dependencies in cancer

Original lecture date: May 8, 2025

Chris Vakoc, MD, PhD

Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Other lectures in the Spring 2025 series

Looking back and looking forward for the Children’s Oncology Group
Precision survivorship: predicting primary ovarian insufficiency risk in female survivors of childhood cancer
The leukemic niche - endothelial and macrophage control of clonality
Developing new models and therapies for high-risk pediatric embryonal brain tumors
Chromatin-based regulations of gene transcription and oncogenesis
Lineage-specific dependencies in paediatric-type diffuse high-grade glioma
The ZERO Childhood Cancer - a national pediatric cancer precision medicine program
Transforming global pediatric cancer care: an update on strategies to address global inequities in childhood cancer care and control
Cardiometabolic risk factors in survivorship: a target to reduce morbidity and mortality

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