New York Cancer Genomics Research Network Meeting

To advance collaborative efforts on cancer genomics, the New York Genome Center (NYGC) hosts meetings on the first Tuesday of every month to bring together leading cancer researchers, clinicians and postdocs from the NYGC’s Institutional Founding Members and other key academic institutions.

WHEN:
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM:  Speaker Presentations and Q&A

This will be a VIRTUAL meeting via Zoom.

MODERATOR

Harold Varmus, MD Senior Associate Core Member New York Genome Center Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine

SPEAKERS

Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson, MD Peter C. Nowell, MD, Professor Founding Director of the Penn Center for Personalized Diagnostics Founding Director of the Division of Precision and Computational Diagnostics Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania “Proteogenomics as a Driver of Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets in Lymphoma”

Michael Dyer, PhD Chair, Developmental Neurobiology Department Co-Leader, Developmental Biology & Solid Tumor Program St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital “Systematic Identification of Cell- and Developmental Stage-Specific Enhancer Elements Important for Neurogenesis”

William A. Weiss, MD, PhD Evelyn and Mattie Anderson Endowed Chair in Cancer Research Professor, Departments of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Neurological Surgery Leader, Pediatric Malignancies Program UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center University of California San Francisco “Targeting the Myeloid Compartment in a Non-Germline GEM Model for High-Risk Neuroblastoma”

DISCUSSION AND Q&A
Moderated by Harold Varmus, MD
Discussion and Q&A will take place after each speaker presents.

These meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month; are attended, when held in person, by principal investigators in the New York region and their trainees; and are intended to be viewed by anyone in the world with an internet connection.

Any questions on this event, contact events@nygenome.org.