The Little one Well being Analysis Institute’s 2024 Pediatric Most cancers Analysis Group Symposium, scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 27, will deal with pediatric mind tumor analysis.
The annual symposium brings collectively stakeholders from academia, scientific operations, authorities, affected person households and philanthropic teams who’re invested in creating developments in pediatric most cancers remedies. This yr, the Pediatric Most cancers Analysis Group has invited three exterior specialists on mind tumor analysis to share their work.
The invited audio system are:
- Rajeev Vibhakar, MD, PhD, professor, pediatrics-hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplantation, College of Colorado.
- Mateusz Koptyra, PhD, lab director, Heart for Information Pushed Discovery in Biomedicine, Youngsters’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
- Robert Wechsler-Reya, PhD, H. Houston Merritt Professor of Neurological Sciences, scientific director of mind tumor analysis, Herbert Irving Complete Most cancers Heart, Columbia College Medical Heart.
Dr. Vibhakar’s analysis focuses on the genetic mechanisms by which regular mind cells change into cancerous and the way these genetic variations can be utilized to raised diagnose and deal with youngsters with mind tumors.
Dr. Koptyra research noninvasive diagnostics in pediatric mind tumors, biomarker search, cell-free DNA/RNA and extra-cellular vesicles, together with the event of noninvasive medulloblastoma tumor profiling utilizing circulating in blood tumor materials (cell-free DNA).
Dr. Wechsler-Reya focuses on understanding the alerts that management cell progress and differentiation within the nervous system and the way these alerts are dysregulated in mind tumors.
After the featured audio system, analysis collaborative groups throughout the Pediatric Most cancers Analysis Group will current their tasks and experiences encompassing a number of areas of pediatric most cancers.
The symposium can be held on the UNMC Omaha campus on the Truhlsen Campus Occasions Heart from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a poster session beginning at 7 a.m. and working all through the day.
Data concerning poster submission guidelines, poster submission and symposium is accessible on the occasion webpage. Registration for the symposium is free.
