Governor’s Conference on Effective Partnering in Cancer Research

New Technologies in Cancer Research

8:55 am - 9:00 am Welcoming Remarks

9:00 am - 10:00 am Benjamin Greenbaum, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Quantifying Non-Self in Tumors

10:00 am - 11:00 am David Kaufman, Merck Research Laboratories
Next-Generation Biomarkers for Precision Cancer Immunotherapy

11:00 am - 11:30 am Break: Bloomberg Hall Biology Atrium

11:30 am - 12:30 pm James R. Heath, California Institute of Technology
Physical and Biological Approaches Towards Understanding Tumor/Immune Interactions

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch: Available in Simons Hall

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Gunaretnam Rajagopal, Janssen Research & Development
Advancing Drug Discovery - Translating Small & Big Data Into Insight

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Afternoon Tea: Fuld Hall Common Room

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research New England & New York City
Algorithms for Pathway Discovery for Precision Medicine

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Chris Sander, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Computational and Systems Biology of Cancer: Discover, Design, Deliver

This conference is co-sponsored by the Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, in partnership with the New Jersey Commision on Cancer Research. For more information about the conference, please click here.