RadioBiology and Imaging Program (RBI) Retreat

Date/Time:

Friday, May 13, 2022, 8:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

Smilow Center for Translational Research
Conference Room 8-146
3400 Civic Center Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Keynote Speaker:

Marie-Catherine Vozenin, PhD
Professor of Radiation Therapy
Head of Radiobiology
Lausanne University

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8:00-8:30AM

Breakfast

8:30 AM

Welcome and Overview of the RBI Program
Katherine Nathanson, MD
Deputy Director, Abramson Cancer Center
and
Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil
Director, Abramson Cancer Center

8:40 AM

Introductions
Costas Koumenis, PhD
Vice Chair of Research; Department of Radiation Oncology

8:45 AM

Keynote Presentation:
“From Irradiation at ultra-high dose rate to FLASH radiotherapy”

Marie-Catherine Vozenin, PhD
Professor of Radiation Therapy
Head of Radiobiology
Swiss Cancer Center, Lausanne University

10:00 AM

A transcriptomic atlas of the mouse skin irradiated with FLASH proton radiation
Anastasia Velalopoulou, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

10:20 AM

Break

10:45 AM

Amino-acid metabolism in adult and pediatric glioma, opportunities for imaging and beyond
Ali Nabavizadeh, MD
Department of Radiology

11:05 AM

A balancing act: regulating mRNA translation for cancer progression
Crystal Conn, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

12:15 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

Panel Session with ACC Clinical Trial Ambassadors
Camille Walker
Merium Burwell
Armenta Washington, MS, Research Coordinator Senior, ACC
Moderated by: 
Carmen E. Guerra, MD, MSCE, FACP

1:30 PM

NCI's Plan to Enhance Diversity
Carmen E. Guerra, MD, MSCE, FACP
Associate Director of Diversity and Outreach, ACC

2:00 PM

ACC Catchment Area 
Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH
Associate Director of Community Engaged Research

2:30 PM

Break

2:45 PM
3:00 PM

Dose verification with Cherenkov imaging for TSET patients
Weili Zhong, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

3:15 PM

Surgery-induced immunosuppression limits photodynamic therapy efficacy for mesothelioma
Gwendolyn M. Cramer, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology

3:45 PM

Best Abstract Award Announcement:
Leening P. Liu, BS 
Department of Bioengineering

Real-time spectral CT thermometry via physical density for image-guided tumor ablation

Closing Remarks

Dr. Amit Maity and Dr. Dan Pryma 

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