Summit on Pancreatic Cancer

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Agenda: Friday, August 3, 2007

8:00 - 8:15am

Welcome, Jason Kuhn, Chairman of the Board (PanCAN)

8:15 - 8:45am

PanCAN Overview, Julie Fleshman, President and CEO (PanCAN)

9:00 - 9:45am

Diane Simeone (University of Michigan)
Topic: Cancer Stem Cells

9:45 - 10:30am

Moderated Discussion: Geoff Wahl (Salk Institute), Susan Bonner-Weir (Harvard Medical School)

10:30 - 10:45am

BREAK

10:45 - 11:30am

Steven Leach (Johns Hopkins)
Topic: Cell of Origin

11:30 - 12:15pm

Moderated Discussion: Sunil Hingorani (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

12:15 - 12:45pm

Lunch

12:45 - 1:30

Tony Hunter (Salk Institute)
Topic: Signaling

1:30 - 2:15

Presenter: Neal Rosen (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Topic: Mechanism Based Therapeutic Strategies

2:15 - 3:00

Moderated Discussion: Channing Der (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); Murray Korc (Dartmouth)

3:00 - 3:15

BREAK

3:15 - 4:30

Dafna Bar-Sagi (NYU)
David Tuveson (Cambridge Research Institute)
Topic: Disease Modeling -Ex Vivo (Bar-Sagi) and In Vivo (Tuveson)
Moderated Discussion: Nabeel Bardeesy (Massachusetts General Hospital)

4:30 - 5:30

Breakout Sessions
Thea Tlsty (UC San Francisco)
Topic: Epigenetics
Michael Goggins (Johns Hopkins)
Topic: Early Detection
Tony Hollingsworth (University of Nebraska Medical Center
Topic: Metastatic Disease

6:00pm

Depart for dinner

Agenda: Saturday, August 4, 2007

8:00 - 8:30am

BREAKFAST

8:30 - 9:30am

Mariano Barbacid (CNIO - Spanish National Cancer Research Center)
Inder Verma (Salk Institute)
Topic: Oncogenesis and Inflammation

9:30 - 10:15am

Moderated Discussion: Ashok Saluja (University of Minnesota)

10:15 - 10:30am

BREAK

10:30 - 10:45am

Ronald Evans (Salk Institute)
Reuben Shaw (Salk Institute)
Topic: The Crossroads of Inflammation and Metabolism

10:45 - 11:30am

Moderated Discussion: Michael Karin (UC San Diego)

11:30 -1:00pm

Lunch and Lecture on Salk Architecture: Inder Verma (Salk Institute)

1:00 - 1:45pm

Timothy Yeatman (Moffitt Cancer Center)
Topic: Exploiting Molecular Tools to Personalize Pancreatic Cancer Therapeutics

1:45 - 2:30pm

Moderated Discussion: Mace Rothenberg (Vanderbilt)

2:30 - 2:45pm

BREAK

2:45 - 3:30pm

Ralph Hruban (Johns Hopkins)
Topic: Hunting for and Using Pancreatic Cancer Genes

3:30 - 4:15pm

Moderated discussion: David Tuveson (Cambridge Research Institute);

4:15 - 5:30pm

Late Breaking News:
Roger Tsien (UC San Diego)
Susan Bonner-Weir (Harvard Medical School)
Aram Hezel (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
Nabeel Bardeesy (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Adrienne Cox (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

6:00pm

Depart for dinner

Agenda: Sunday, August 5, 2007

8:00 - 9:30am

Panel Discussion: Early Detection and Translational Research

9:30 - 9:45am

BREAK

9:45 - 11:15am

Panel Discussion: Therapeutics and Clinical Implications

11:15 - 12:00pm

Wrap-Up and Assignments

Featuring

Monday, March 3, 2008
8:00am - 5:00pm

Frederic de Hoffmann Auditorium, Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

TSN Signature Series

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