About
Annual Retreat of Cancer Grand Challenges Team PROSPECT
Thursday, October 2
- 9:00-9:30 – Welcome and opening remarks
- 9:30-9:45 – Ahmedin Jemal (Senior Vice President, American Cancer Society, USA) – The changing landscape of early-onset cancers
- 9:45-10:00 – Laurence Zitvogel (Professor, Gustave Roussy, France) – Next frontiers in cancer-microbiome axis
- 10:00-10:15 – Graham Colditz (Chief, Public Health Sciences Washington University, USA) – Cancer risk factors: from discovery to implementation
- 10:15-10:30 – John Carethers (Vice Chancellor, UC San Diego, USA) – Non-invasive testing for colorectal cancer: what’s next?
Friday, October 3
- 9:10-9:25 – Yasmine Belkaid (President, Institut Pasteur, France) – Immune control of host physiology
- 9:25-9:40 – Matthew Vander Heiden (Director, Koch Institute, MIT, USA) – Bridging the gap: are mechanistic models ready for human relevance?
- 9:40-9:55 – Ruth Langley (Professor, University College London, UK) – Insights from Add-Aspirin: rethinking chemoprevention strategies
- 9:55-10:30 – Panel discussion with patient advocates team, with Yin Cao, Anisha Patel, Manju George, Chris Norris, John Rosling, Diane Nathaniel
If you would like to attend these two sessions, please email Emilie Gehin at emilie.gehin@pasteur.fr before Friday, September 26, including your first name, last name, email address and current affiliation.