Apr
10
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds Blume Memorial Lecture: Twenty-five years of Progress in the Clinical Art of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation @ LKSC Berg Hall
Apr 10 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds Blume Memorial Lecture: Twenty-five years of Progress in the Clinical Art of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Fred Appelbaum, MD

Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Washington

Executive Vice President and Deputy Director, External Affairs, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Dr. Appelbaum is the executive director of SCCA. His work centers on the biology and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.

Decades of working with cancer patients teaches you to savor everyday pleasures like the teasing notes of coriander and cumin in a simmering pot of curry or getting to hug your child, and it fortifies his resolve to keep moving cancer care forward. He’s determined to improve screening, enhance treatment and stop cancer from returning.

As a medical student in the early 1970s, Dr. Appelbaum happened upon Dr. E. Donnall Thomas’ initial description of bone-marrow transplantation in a medical journal. The pioneering technique eventually earned Thomas the Nobel Prize and transformed leukemia and related cancers, once thought incurable, into highly treatable diseases with survival rates as high as 90 percent.

Bone-marrow transplants became the cornerstone of the newly formed Hutchinson Center, and it wasn’t long before Dr. Appelbaum was recruited to join Thomas’ team of medical mavericks in Seattle making historic inroads against blood cancers.

Now, he holds the job that Thomas once held, and he has spent decades building on Thomas’ groundbreaking innovations. Dr. Appelbaum has been an innovator in his own right, refining transplant procedures, conducting clinical trials and caring for patients.

Part of that job is extending the Hutch’s patient research beyond transplants. We’ve expanded our role in the more common solid tumors and have created nontransplant approaches to blood cancers. We’ve made substantial gains in treating prostate, colon, pancreatic, lung, breast and ovarian cancers, but we have a long way to go.

Sep
16
Mon
12th Comprehensive Cancer Research Training Program (CCRTP) @ Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall
Sep 16 – Sep 17 all-day
12th Comprehensive Cancer Research Training Program (CCRTP) @ Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall

The Comprehensive Cancer Research Training Program is an annual two–day immersive course that invites graduate and postdoctoral students, residents, clinical fellows and research fellows to take part in a unique, comprehensive introduction to the vanguard of current cancer research.

This ambitious curriculum features daily plenary sessions on general topics followed by half-day sessions on two scientific themes, each featuring three to four presentations. Numerous nationally and internationally renowned Stanford faculty present didactic lectures and discussions on current topics of basic, translational and clinical cancer research.

REGISTER HERE.

Oct
21
Mon
Translational Oncology Program at Stanford (TOPS) Annual Symposium: Translating Discoveries to Cures @ Berg Hall, Li Ka Shing Center
Oct 21 @ 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
Translational Oncology Program at Stanford (TOPS) Annual Symposium: Translating Discoveries to Cures @ Berg Hall, Li Ka Shing Center

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This symposium brings together speakers from academia, industry and the FDA to discuss their perspectives on anticancer drug discovery and development.

One of the highlights of the symposium will be the poster session, which calls attention to the great research being done in translational oncology. Broad participation enriches this session, and students and scientists are encouraged to present their work. This poster session provides an excellent opportunity to publicly present recent science and to interact with members of many different academic organizations in the scientific community.

P R E S E N T I N G    A    P O S T E R
Posters will be on display for the entire day with a special poster viewing session taking place during lunch. Presenters should plan on being stationed by their work to answer questions during the poster viewing session. Only one poster can be submitted per person and that person must attend the symposium. Please bring your posters ready for display. A tack board will be provided to hang your poster, in addition to extra tacks. All posters must be removed by the end of the event. If you intend to present a poster, please send the presenter’s name and title and the title of the poster to Denise Baughman atdeniseb@stanford.edu.

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Please note the following information for the preparation of your poster:

–   Poster size not to exceed 36” x 48” (portrait)

–   The poster must be prepared on one sheet.

–   Allocate the top of the poster for the title and authors as stated on the submitted abstract.

–   The text, illustrations, etc. should be bold/large enough to be read from a distance of two meters.

–   Please check the poster presentation diagram upon arrival at the conference, for the poster board number assigned to you. Please use the board with that number.

–   Posters can be hung after 7:30 a.m., and must be removed at the conclusion of the symposium.

–   The event managers will not be responsible for posters that are not removed on time.

–   Each poster presenter is required to stand by his/her poster for informal discussion as indicated in the program.

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[month] [date], 2019

Please indicate your intention to submit a poster and the title of the poster at the time of registration. Email Denise Baughman at deniseb@stanford.edu with the name of your poster.