RadioBiology and Imaging Program (RBI) Retreat (2017)

Date/Time:

Friday, December 1, 2017, 8:00am - 4:15pm

Location:

Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium
Smilow Center for Translational Research
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Keynote Speaker:

George Sgouros, Ph.D.
Director, Radiopharmaceutical Dosimetry
Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science
Johns Hopkins University

 
Agenda:

 

8:00-8:30AM

Hang Posters / Breakfast
Smilow Atrium

8:30 AM

Welcome and Overview of the RBI Program
Costas Koumenis, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

8:40 AM

A novel mouse model for image guided precision intestinal damage
Costas Koumenis, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

9:00 AM

The impact of gut microbiome on the antitumor effects of radiotherapy
Andrea Facciabene, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

9:20 AM

Trends in Translation: Bedside-to-Bench Research in Photodynamic Therapy
Theresa Busch, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

9:40 AM

Nab-paclitaxel and Vitamin D as radiosensitizers in pancreatic cancer
Edgar Ben-Josef, MD
Department of Radiation Oncology

10:00 AM

Directing alpha-emitting conjugates to cancer chromatin via PARP-1
Mehran Makvandi, PhD
Department of Radiology

10:20 AM

Break and Poster Viewing

10:40 AM

Overview of Molecular Imaging and Cancer Research Relevant to the RBI Program
David Mankoff, MD, PhD
Department of Radiology

11:15 AM

Machine learning and Radiomics in the treatment of Lung Cancer
Yong Fan, PhD
Department of Radiology

11:35 AM

Metabolomics of Human Cancer Patients & HIFU
Jerry Glickson, PhD
Department of Radiology

11:55 AM

New Applications of Oxygen Imaging by Phosphorescence Quenching and Luminescent Dual-Mode Temperature/Oxygen Probes
Sergei Vinogradov, PhD
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department of Chemistry

12:15 PM

Summer Undergraduate Program Educating Radiation Scientists (SUPERS)
How are we doing after 8 years?
Sydney Evans, VMD, MS
Department of Radiation Oncology

12:35 PM

Lunch and Poster Viewing

1:15 PM

Keynote Presentation:
Imaging, Dosimetry and Radiobiology for Radiopharmaceutical Therapy
George Sgouros, PhD
Director, Radiopharmaceutical Dosimertry
Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science
Johns Hopkins University

2:15 PM

Engineering targeted nanoparticles for molecular imaging and therapeutic applications
Andrew Tsourkas, PhD
Department of Bioengineering

2:35 PM

A Gift of Time: CTC Analyses for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Gary Kao, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

2:55 PM

Break and Poster Viewing

3:15 PM

IR navigation system for Photofrin-mediated Pleural PDT
Timothy Zhu, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

3:35 PM

Combining Radiotherapy with Immunology
Amit Maity, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

3:55 PM

High-resolution Digital PCR (dPCR) Profiling of EGFRvIII from rare Brain Tumor Cell populations
Jay Dorsey, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

4:15 PM

Poster Award Announcement and Closing remarks

Poster Presentations

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  1. “TIPSTer” to the Rescue: A Rapid and Sensitive Method for Detecting Tumor Cells in Pleural Fluid from Lung Cancer Patients
    Louise Aguarin, MS, Samuel Jean-Baptiste
    Department of Radiation Oncology
     
  2. Pre-surgical magnetic resonance imaging and photoacoustic-guided surgery with indocyanine green and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle clusters
    Ahmad Amirshaghaghi, PhD
    Department of Radiology
     
  3. Best Poster Winner: Non-invasive in vivo biomarker of EGFR pathway activation alterations in glioblastoma, from clinically-acquired dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging: the ‘φ’ index. 
    Spyridon Bakas, PhD
    Department of Radiology
     
  4. Development of a Preclinical Model of Surgically-Induced Inflammation in Malignant Mesothelioma
    Richard Davis, PhD
    Department of Radiation Oncology
     
  5. Targeting Auger electrons to cellular nuclei via PARP-1
    Mehran Makvandi, PharmD, RPh, ANP
    Department of Radiology
     
  6. Blood-flow informed photodynamic therapy improves therapeutic efficacy
    Yi Hong Ong, PhD
    Department of Radiation Oncology
     
  7. Estimation of cellular glutamine pool size in breast cancer by [18F](2S,4R)4-Fluoroglutamine PET: a quantitative kinetic approach
    Austin Pantel, MD, PhD
    Department of Radiology
     
  8. High-resolution digital PCR (dPCR) profiling of EGFRvIII from rare cell populations
    Deeksha Saxena, PhD
    Department of Radiation Oncology
     
  9. “PD-L1ing to the C (CTCs)”:  Developing a new Assay for Bladder Cancer Circulating Tumor Cells
    Nicolas Seranio
    Department of Radiation Oncology
     
  10. Best Poster Winner:  Targeting treatment-refractory glioma stem cells via activation of the integrated stress response
    Saad Sheikh, MD
    Department of Radiation Oncology
     
  11. ERβ sensitizes NSCLC cells to chemotherapeutic agents by regulating DNA damage response
    Christoforos Thomas, PhD
    Department of Radiation Oncology
     
  12. Photoporphyrin IX- superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle (SPION) nanoclusters for MR imaging and photodynamic therapy
    Lesan Yan, PhD
    Department of Bioengineering​​​
     
  13. Quantification of Cell-to-Cell Variations in Target Molecules Identified by Immunofluorescence
    Jennifer Zou, PhD
    Department of Radiation Oncology
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