Invited Speaker Seminar Series 2022-2023

Seminar Schedule for 2022-2023

Date and Location Speaker

Thursday, 10/27/2022

SCTR 8-146

Linda M. Liau, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair
Department of Neurosurgery
Director of Brain Tumor Program
UCLA
"Targeting Treatment-induced Resistance in Glioblastoma" 

Thursday, 01/19/2023

SCTR 8-146

Sheila A. Stewart, PhD
Gerty Cori Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Cell Biology & Physiology
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
"Age related microenvironmental changes drive metastatic tumor progression"

Thursday, 01/26/2023

SCTR 8-146

Nancy Y. Lee, MD, FASTRO
Vice Chair, Experimental Therapeutics
Director of Head & Neck
Proton Service Chief 
Department of Radiation Oncology
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
"Rethinking Radiation Oncology:  Using Human Papillomavirus Related Oropharyngeal Cancer as a Model Biology Driven Precision Radiation"

Thursday, 02/23/2023

SCTR 8-146

Edward Graves, PhD
Associate Professor 
Department of Radiation Oncology - Radiation Physics
Stanford University
"Combining Radiation and CD47 Inhibition to Induce Macrophage-Mediated Abscopal Responses"

Thursday, 03/09/2023

SCTR 8-146

Terence M. Williams, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair 
Department of Radiation Oncology
City of Hope
“Towards more Biologically-Directed Approaches for the Treatment of Cancer with Radiation”

Thursday, 03/23/2023

SCTR 8-146

Joyce E. Bischoff, PhD
Professor, Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Research Associate, Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital
Principal Investigator, Surgery and Vascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital
“Endothelial Anomalies in Vascular Tumors and Vascular Malformations”

Thursday, 03/30/2023

SCTR 8-146

Xi Chen, PhD
Cullen Duncan McAshan Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
Associate Professor & CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
“Stressing Out Therapy-Resistant Cancers”

Thursday, 04/27/2023

SCTR 8-146

Sandeep Burma, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair (Research), Dept. of Neurosurgery
Mays Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Oncology
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
“Radiation-induced senescence as a driver of glioblastoma recurrence”

Thursday, 05/25/2023

SCTR 8-146

Imran Rizvi, PhD
Assistant Professor
Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
UNC Chapel Hill

“Targeting Platinum Resistance in Ovarian Cancer: Fluid Shear Stress, Environmental Contaminants, and the Role of Photodynamic Priming”

Schedule from previous years