Conference Speakers

James P. Allison, PhD

Nobel Prize Winner, 2018
Regental Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology, the Olga Keith Wiess Distinguished University Chair for Cancer Research, Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Research, Executive Director of the Immunotherapy Platform, and Director of the James P. Allison Institute at MD Anderson Cancer Center

Institution: MD Anderson Cancer Center

Presentation Title: Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Immunotherapy: Mechanistic insights provide new therapeutic opportunities

Biography Research Lab

Aaron Ciechanover, MD, DSc

Nobel Prize Winner, 2004
Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of medicine at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel

Institution: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel

Presentation Title: The Ubiquitin Proteolytic System - From Basic Mechanisms thru Human Diseases  and on to Drug Development

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Randy Schekman, PhD

Nobel Prize Winner, 2013

Institution: University of California, Berkeley

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William G. Kaelin, MD

Nobel Prize Winner, 2019

Institution: Harvard Medical School

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Drew Weissman, MD, PhD

Nobel Prize Winner, 2023

Institution: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Presentation Title: Nucleoside-Modified mRNA-LNP Therapeutics

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Kristi Anseth, PhD

Institution: University of Colorado at Boulder

Presentation Title: Adaptable and Responsive Hydrogels to Develop Tissue Models for Drug Screening

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Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhD

Institution: New York University

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Chad Mirkin, PhD

Institution: Northwestern University

Presentation Title: The Emerging Era of Structural Nanomedicine

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Celeste Simon, PhD

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

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Ron DePinho, MD

Institution: MD Anderson Cancer Center

Presentation Title:  Aging: Insights and Interceptions

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Shana Kelley, PhD

Institution: Northwestern University

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Ali Shilatifard, PhD

Institution: Northwestern University

Presentation Title: Chromatin and transcriptional elongation in the regulation of development gene expression, aging, and disease

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Natalie Artzi, PhD

Institution: Harvard University

Presentation Title: Supercharging Immunotherapy Through Nanotechnology: Chemical Structure Matters

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Padmanee Sharma, MD, PhD

Institution: MD Anderson Cancer Center

Presentation Title: From the Clinic to the Lab: Investigating Mechanisms of Response and Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Therapy

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Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD

Institution: University of Michigan

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Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD

Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Presentation Title: Selective autophagy: ensuring healthy aging one protein at a time

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Carl June, MD

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Presentation Title: Updates in CAR T cells

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Jonathan Long, PhD

Institution: Stanford University

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Philipp Scherer, PhD

Institution: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Presentation Title: Lean and Connected: How Losing Weight Makes Fat Cells Talk Smarter

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Clay Semenkovich, MD

Institution: Washington University

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Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD

Institution: University of California, San Francisco

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Sabrina Diano, PhD

Institution: Columbia University / Yale University

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Milan Mrksich, PhD

Institution: Northwestern University

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