2024 Kickoff

Thu May 30 2024 at 04:30 pm

UCI Research Park | Irvine

Anti-Cancer Challenge
Publisher/HostAnti-Cancer Challenge
2024 Kickoff
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Be the first to hear the announcement of newly funded projects and 2024 UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge updates. Engage with researchers supported by the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge and gain insights into the progress of their groundbreaking research.
Presentations will be delivered by Dr. Richard Van Etten, director of the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and founder of the UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge, Dr. Farshid Dayyani, medical director for the Stern Center for Cancer Clinical Trials & Research and Dr. Maheswari Senthil, chief of the division of Surgical Oncology.
This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required. Complimentary refreshments generously donated by Puesto.
Connect directly with UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge funded researchers about their work. Attending researchers and their highlighted projects include:

Exploiting USP7 Inhibitors as a Therapeutic Approach in Osteosarcoma
Claudia Benavente, PhD, UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences Associate Professor

Innate Immune Agonist Codrugs for Cancer Immunotherapy
Thomas Burke, PhD, UCI School of Medicine Assistant Professor

Multiomic Study of Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC) Heterogeneity at the Single Cell Level
Ling Gao, MD, PhD, UCI School of Medicine Associate Professor

Cell Therapy for Muscle Atrophy Following Irradiation in Rhabdomyosarcoma
Michael Hicks, PhD, UCI School of Medicine Assistant Professor

Biobehavioral Intervention to Reduce Adverse Outcomes in Young Adult Latino Men with Testicular Cancer
Michael Hoyt, PhD, UCI Program in Public Health Professor

Stress and Coping in Asian Americans with Advanced/Metastatic Cancer
Jacqueline Kim, PhD, UCI School of Medicine Assistant Professor

Targeting Breast Cancer Metastasis with Natural Killer Cells
Devon Lawson, PhD, UCI School of Medicine Associate Professor

Identifying Early Metabolic-Hormonal Signals of Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer
Yunxia Lu, MSc, PhD, UCI Program in Public Health Associate Professor

New Machine Learning Methods to Identify Metabolomic and Genomic Biomarkers for Colorectal Cancer
Min Zhang, MD, PhD, UCI Program in Public Health Professor

Connecting Mevalonate Pathway with Oncogene Transcriptional Networks in Leukemia
David Fruman, PhD, UCI School of Biological Sciences Professor
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UCI Research Park, 5301 California,Irvine,CA,United States

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