University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center Annual Research Retreat
Monday, April 15, 2024 – 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
This year’s event focused on Cancer Modeling. The in-person event allows us to come together to engage, share research visions, and learn from each other. The contributions from each individual to our Carbone Cancer Center team – from trainees, to administrators, researchers, clinicians, and faculty – allow us to move forward together and be the driving force for research, prevention, and treatment initiatives critical to defeating cancer in Wisconsin and around the world.
2024 Research Retreat Agenda
8:00 am – 8:30 am Retreat set up, poster placement
8:30 am – 9:00 am Registration
9:00 am – 9:15 am Introductions/Welcome
9:15 am – 9:30 am Bothwell Award – Dr. Lang
9:30 am – 9:45 am Theranostics Institute – Dr. Morris
9:45 am – 10:00 am Break
10:00 am – 11:00 am Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD
11:00 am -12:30 pm Breakout Sessions
12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Claudia Fischbach, PhD
2:00 pm – 2:40 pm General Session
2:40 pm – 3:10 pm Luis Cavajal-Carmona, PhD.
3:10 pm – 4:10 pm Trainee Flash Talks
4:10 pm – 5:10 pm Poster Session/Reception
Keynote Speakers
“Organoid models of cancer and tissue microenvironments”
Calvin Kuo, MD, PhD
Maureen Lyles D’Ambrogio Professor of Medicine
Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology
Stanford University
Surrozen Founder
Dr. Kuo leads the Cancer Biology Program at Stanford Cancer Center and is Vice Chair for Basic and Translational Research in the Department of Medicine at Stanford. He is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians, American Society for Clinical Investigation and AAAS. Dr. Kuo’s lab seeks to understand the biology of progenitor populations, with a central interest on intestinal and lung stem cell populations, developing improved anti-angiogenic cancer therapies, investigating endothelial cell regulation of physiology, and discovering oncogenes using organoid cultures. Dr. Kuo has identified numerous systems with important applications for the study of stem cell biology, cancer, tissue engineering and infectious diseases. Notably, his work has established extracellular Wnt signaling as essential for ongoing proliferation in the adult intestine. Dr. Kuo joined the Stanford faculty in 2001. Previously, he performed postdoctoral research at Harvard Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kuo received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and his A.B. from Harvard College. Dr. Kuo received junior faculty awards from the Burroughs Welcome and Kimmel Foundations and has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
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“Extracellular matrix – a mechanical regulator of cancer”
Claudia Fischbach Teschl, PhD
Stanley Bryer 1946 Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University
Associate Director of Cornell Nanoscale Science and Engineering Facility (CNF). She received her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Regensburg, Germany and conducted her postdoctoral work at Harvard University in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her lab utilizes engineering tools and strategies to gain a better understanding of how tumor-microenvironment interactions regulate cancer development, progression, and therapy resistance with a focus on cell-ECM interactions. She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the Biomedical Engineering Society, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. She is the recipient of the Momentum Mid-Career Award by the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Special Interest Group of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and the inaugural awardee of a Rosalind Franklin Award by the Max Planck Centre for Physics in Medicine in Germany. She is a Senior Editor of Cancer Research and serves on the Editorial Board of the ACS journal Biomaterials Science and Engineering, Tissue Engineering, and APL Bioengineering. She is an advocate for interdisciplinary cancer research and has written Op-Ed articles on this topic including in Scientific American.
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View Recordings for anything you missed are below!
Morning Breakout Sessions:
“Theranostics: Hitting the Target”
Presenters for this session were:
Quaovi Sodji, MD, PhD; Michael Veronesi, MD, PhD; Ali Pirasteh, MD; Amy Fowler, MD, PhDView Here
“Taking Models Beyond UWCCC”
Presenters for this session were:
John Young, PhD; Dhanu Shanmuganayagam, PhD; Chris Fletcher, MD; Jessica Lang, PhD
“Genomics, Cancer and Data Science”
Presenters for this session were:
Christina Kendziorski, PhD; Juan Caicedo, PhD; Nathanael Fillmore, PhD; Hamid Emamekhoo, MD
Guest Speaker: Luis Cavajal-Carmona, PhD
General Session: Head and Neck Cancer Research
Presenters for this session were:
Sheena Kerr, PhD; Pippa Cosper, MD, PhD; Adam Burr, MD, PhD
Introductions
Presented by: Dr. Howard Bailey
Bothwell Prize
Presented by: Drs. Howard Bailey Caroline Alexander and Paul Ahlquist to Dr. Joshua Lang’s Lab
Theranostics Institute
Presented by: Dr. Zach Morris
Trainee Flash Talks
Presenters for this session were:
Adeel Ahmed, Yunxia Liu, Zhouyuan Shen, Cole Weaver, Abbey Williams, Desmond Layne
2024 Research Retreat Steering Committee
Co-chairs:
Jeremy Kratz, MD
Irene Ong, PhD
Committee Members
Anna Huttenlocher, MD
Paul Ellison, PhD
Ting Fu, PhD
Huy Dinh, PhD
Nabeel Zafar, MD, MPH
Dhanu Shanmuganayagam, PhD
Sheena Kerr, PhD
Amanda Shea, CTN Vice-President, trainee
Cristina Paz CTN Leadership Team, trainee