Wednesday, February 5, 2020
8:00 am-4:00 pm
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Rotunda Third Floor
Harvard Medical School
77 Louis Pasteur, Boston MA
Registration is now closed.
Agenda
8:00-8:30 am Registration
8:30-9:00 am Welcome and Introductions
9:00 am-Noon Session 1: Novel Diagnostic Tools and Methods
Moderator: Timothy Rebbeck, PhD
Director, Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention, and Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. Professor of Cancer Prevention,
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate Director for Equity and Engagement, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Keynote Address
Ultrasensitive Protein Assays for Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Efficacy
David Walt, PhD
Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Institute Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Break
Early Detection Technology Updates from Mass General
Lecia V. Sequist, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Innovation in Early Cancer Detection, Massachusetts General Hospital
Landry Family Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Liquid biopsies for cancer detection and treatment response monitoring
Viktor Adalsteinsson, PhD
Associate Director, Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Noon-1:00 pm Lunch
1:00-4:00 pm Session 2: Implementation of Early Detection Approaches
Announcement of PEER Grant Awardees
Moderator: John Flanigan, MD
Center for Global Health, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Keynote Address
Cancer Research UK – Strategy, Activities and Opportunities in Early Detection Research
David Crosby, PhD
Head of Early Detection Research, Cancer Research UK
Break
Screening for a Better Cancer Diagnosis
Kenneth Fleming, DPhil, MA(Oxon), MB ChB, FRCPath, FRCP
Emeritus Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford
Chair, the Lancet Commission Diagnostics
Panel Discussion: How Can We Translate Novel Cancer Early Detection Methods to Impact the Health of Populations?
All Speakers
Parking and Directions
Parking and Directions
Contact us
Questions regarding the symposium or the Zhu Center. Contact us at cgcp@hsph.harvard.edu