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, February 2, 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

Núria López-Bigas, PhD ICREA Research Professor Group Leader, Biomedical Genetics Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) Associate Professor University Pompeu Fabra “Somatic Mutations in Cancer and Clonal Hematopoiesis” To learn more about Dr. López-Bigas’s research, see her lab page.

Dolores Hambardzumyan, PhD, MBA Associate Professor Departments of Oncological Sciences & Neurosurgery Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “Myeloid Cells in Brain Tumors” To learn more about Dr. Hambardzumyan’s research, see her lab page.

Emmanuelle Passegué, PhD Alumni Professor of Genetics & Development Director of the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative (CSCI) Columbia University Irving Medical Center “Metabolic Control of Emergency Hematopoiesis” To learn more about Dr. Passegué’s research, see her lab page.

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.