2024 is shaping up to be another full year as the Scientific Advisory Board has approved eight new meeting topics in addition to the annual Spring and Fall Scholar Retreats.

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Environment, host and Tumor Interactions

• Janelle Ayres of The Salk Institute
• Mark Febbraio of Monash University

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Non-genetic Drug Tolerance Mechanisms: From Bacteria to Cancer

• ‍Shruti Bhatt, PhD of National University of Singapore
• Yaara Oren of Tel Aviv University

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Cancer and Nanotechnology

• Jinming Gao of UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Molecular mechanisms driving Metastasis: moving discovery towards therapy

• ‍Raul Mostoslavsky of Massachusetts General Hospital
• Karen Vousden of the Francis Crick Institute
• Salvador Aznar Benitah of IRB Barcelona

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Mechanisms of Cancer Genome Rearrangements

• Peter Ly of UT Southwestern Medical Center

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 Cellular Quiescence and Tumor Dormancy

• Hilary Coller of UCLA

Addressing disparities among populations in cancer research

• Carla Daniela Robles Espinoza, PhD of International Laboratory for Human Genome Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico
• Cassie Kline, MD, MAS of University of Pennsylvania

Fusion Oncogene

• James Amatruda, MD, PhD of USC
• Kimberly Stegmaier, MD of Harvard University

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