Past Seminars

“Targeting Cell Cycle and Transcriptional Vulnerabilities in Small Cell Lung Cancer”
Camilla L. Christensen, Ph.D.
Instructor
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

“Updates from the National Cancer Institute”
Norman E. Sharpless, M.D.
Director, National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Dahod Breast Cancer Research Visiting Professor Lecture
“Management of Advanced Breast Cancer: 2018”
Erica Mayer, M.D., MPH
Assistant Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Clinical Research (Faulkner Hospital), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center

“Expanding the Reach of Precision Medicine in Lung Cancer”
Bruce E. Johnson, M.D.
Professor of Harvard Medical School
Chief Clinical Research Officer of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
President of American Society of Clinical Oncology

BU-BMC Cancer/Pulmonary Center Seminar Series: The Jerry Brody Lectureship
Honoring Dr. Jerome S. Brody, MD, for his 20+ years of leadership as Pulmonary Center Director
“Disease Model Discovery: The Harwell Ageing Screen”
Paul K. Potter, Ph.D.
Head of Disease Model Discovery, Mammalian Genetics Unit, MRC, Harwell Institute
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Section of Renal and Vascular Inflammation
Division of Immunology and Inflammation, Department of Medicine
Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College

Dahod Breast Cancer Research Visiting Professor Lecture
“Transformation in trials and care to accelerate learning in medicine”
Laura J. Esserman, M.D., M.B.A.
Professor, Departments of Surgery and Radiology
Alfred A. de Lorimier Endowed Chair in General Surgery
Director, Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center;
Co-Leader, Breast Oncology Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

“How aneuploidy drives cancer”
Steve Elledge, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Geneticist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

“Genomic analysis of human lung cancers”
Matthew Meyerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard Medical School
American Cancer Society Research Professor
Director, Center for Cancer Genome Discovery

“Engineering in vitro models of tissue functions”
Christopher S. Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Founding Director, The Biological Design Center, Boston University
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University

Dahod Breast Cancer Research Visiting Professor Lecture
“Breast Cancer: What’s Race Got To Do With It?”
Nina A. Bickell, M.D., MPH
Professor, Department of Population Health Science and Policy
Professor, Department of Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Health Equity and Community Engaged Research
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

BU-BMC Cancer/Pulmonary Center Seminar Series: The Jerry Brody Lectureship
Honoring Dr. Jerome S. Brody, MD, for his years of leadership as Pulmonary Center Director
“Strategies to treat and prevent resistance to EGFR inhibitors in lung cancer”
Pasi A. Jänne, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology
Scientific Director, Belfer Center for Applied Cancer Science
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

“Metabolic dependencies in prostate cancer: regulation and targeting of lipogenesis”
Massimo Loda, M.D.
Chair, Department of Oncologic Pathology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Chief, Division of Translational and Molecular Oncologic Pathology,
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

The Cooperband Lectureship (In honor of the first BU-BMC Cancer Center Director, Dr. Sidney R. Cooperband) and Dahod Breast Cancer Research Visiting Professor Lecture
“Breast Tumor Evolution”
Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Department of Medical Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Medical School

“PID1, an obesity-relevant gene with novel function(s) in cancer and a yet-unknown molecular mechanism”
Anat Erdreich-Epstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California and Pediatric Brain Tumor Program
Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disease
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

“Therapeutic targeting of Id2, a transcription factor: a novel approach to brain tumor treatment”
Mark A. Israel, M.D.
Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer
Director, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Pediatrics and of Genetics
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

“Regional immunotherapy for solid tumors”
Steven C. Katz, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director, Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship
Director, Office of Therapeutic Development
Roger Williams Medical Center

“Translating cancer research at BU-BMC”
Avrum Spira, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Bioinformatics
Chief, Division of Computational Biomedicine
Director, Boston University-Boston Medical Center Cancer Center