Events

The following list includes events and seminars of notable interest to the Solid Tumor Therapeutics Program and its members. Please look for the Upcoming STT Events list on the right edge of this page; this list is updated automatically and may be added to your Outlook or Google calendars.

Seminar Series

Seminars led by the Solid Tumor Therapeutics Program featuring speaker whose research has changed the course of cancer research and care. Expand the panels for schedules, locations, webinar links, and more information.

Upcoming Seminars

Please stay tuned for upcoming seminars as they are announced.

Previous Seminars

December 2024 Seminar Speaker

Lukas Chavez, PhD | Precision Diagnostics for Children with Brain Tumors

September 2024 Seminar Speaker

Michael Bouvet, MD | Development of Imaging Probes for Fluorescence Guided Surgery of GI and Endocrine Tumors

August 2024 Seminar Speaker

Shiri Gur-Cohen, PhD | Non-genetic drivers of oncogenic plasticity and tumorigenesis in Squamous Cell Carcinoma

July 2024 Seminar Speaker

Silvio Gutkind, PhD | Novel Immunotherapy Targets: The Druggable Immune GPCRome and new Immune-Evasive Cancer Drivers

June 2024 Seminar Speaker

Maurizio Zanetti, MD | Immortality, Cancer and Immunity. An open-end game

May 2024 Seminar Speaker

David Schlaepfer, PhD | Focal Adhesion Kinase (FAK) Signaling: Uncovering Tumor Vulnerabilities and Expanding Clinical Opportunities

April 2024 Seminar Speaker

Jennifer Guerriero, PhD | The complexities of tumor associated macrophages and the key to effective targeting for anti-cancer therapy

November 2023 Seminar Speaker

Ye Zheng, PhD | Mechanism of Treg suppression of anti-tumor immunity

October 2023 Seminar Speaker

Napoleone Ferrara, MD | Tumor Angiogenesis

Program Events

Seminars, lectures, and other programmatic meetings led by the STT Program. Expand the panels for schedules, locations, webinar links, and more information.

Molecular Tumor Board Meetings

2nd/3rd/4th Thursdays of the month

Tumor profiling and personalized cancer therapy.

Audience: Solid Tumor Therapeutics Program Members
Contact: Suzanna Lee

Head and Neck Cancer Retreat

Annually in November, date TBD, Altman CTRI Auditorium

The Head and Neck Cancer Retreat brings together leading scientists and clinicians from UCSD, Salk, Sanford Burnham Prebys Cancer Center.

Contact: Tia Smith

Moores Cancer Center Events

Seminars, lectures, and other programmatic meetings led by the programs and offices within Moores Cancer Center. Click on an event to learn more and RSVP to attend.