Invited Speaker Seminar Series

Invited Speaker Seminar Series

Seminar Schedule for 2024-2025

Date and Location Speaker

Friday, 09/20/2024

SCTR 8-146

Karl Butterworth, PhD
Professor
Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Queen’s University Belfast
“Spatial-temporal dependency & interventions for radiation-induced cardiac toxicity”

Thursday, 09/26/2024

SCTR 8-146

Lei Xing, PhD
Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Physics
Stanford University
“Biomedical Physics & Radiation Oncology in the Era of AI”

Thursday, 10/17/2024

SCTR 8-146

David M. Ashley, MBBS, FRACP, PhD
Professor
Department of Neuro-Oncology
Duke University
“Innate immunity in Glioma; identifying and exploiting therapeutic vulnerabilities”

Thursday, 10/24/2024

SCTR 8-146

Freddy E. Escorcia, MD, PhD
Lasker Clinical Research Scholar
Molecular Imaging Branch
NCI/NIH
“Beyond the Beam: Radiation Oncology & Radiotheranostics”

Thursday, 01/23/2025

SCTR 8-146

Ramesh Rengan, MD, PhD, FASTRO
Professor and Chair
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Washington
"The Value Proposition of Proton Beam Radiotherapy in the Era of Precision Oncology"

Thursday, 02/27/2025

SCTR 8-146

Kamini Singh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular Pharmacology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Mutant KRAS-driven mRNA Translation Reveals New Mechanisms and Therapeutic Vulnerability in Cancer"

Thursday, 03/20/2025

SCTR 8-146

Jessie Villanueva, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis Program
The Wistar Institute
“From Resistance to Response: Mapping Therapeutic vulnerabilities to target NRAS mutant melanoma”

Thursday, 03/27/2025

SCTR 8-146

Girgis Obaid, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
UT Dallas
“Photodynamic medicine using lipid nanoparticles: can a single modality manipulate both the stroma and the immune contexture of solid cancers?” ​​​​​​​

Thursday, 04/17/2025

SCTR 12-146

Amit Maity, MD, PhD, FASTRO
Professor and Chair
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of Utah
"Quinacrine derivatives as novel radiosensitizers"

Schedule from previous years