20th Annual Cancer Research Symposium: Ten Years at the Koch Institute

Ten Years at the Koch Institute

Join us for the 20th Annual Cancer Research Symposium hosted by MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. Sessions and presenters include:

—The Koch Institute on the National Stage—
Francis Collins, Science Advisor to the President and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

Ned Sharpless, Director of the National Cancer Institute

Matthew Vander Heiden, Director of the Koch Institute

—Convergent Science and Future Science—
Kristin Knouse, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Biology and Koch Institute

Angela Koehler, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Biological Engineering and Koch Institute

Francisco J. Sánchez-Rivera, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Biology and Koch Institute

Joelle Straehla, Charles W. (1955) and Jennifer C. Johnson Clinical Investigator, Koch Institute

Yadira Soto-Feliciano, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Biology and Koch Institute

Panelists:
Sangeeta Bhatia, John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Susan Hockfield, MIT President Emerita and Professor of Neuroscience

Phillip A. Sharp, Institute Professor and Professor of Biology

—Where are they now? Welcoming back our alumni—
Shawn Davidson, Associate Research Scholar, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University

Oliver Jonas, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital; Faculty, Joint Center for Cancer Precision Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Aviv Regev, Head, Genentech Research and Early Development, Roche

Giovanni Traverso, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering