2025 Symposium
About the event
Each year the CRI symposium brings together faculty and trainees from across campus to share their research and build collaborations. The schedule includes a keynote lecture from Dr. Reuben Shaw (Salk Institute), a series of short talks by UCI faculty, and a poster session for trainees. Details of the 2025 program are provided below – we hope to see you there!
Hosted by:
Admission is open to all members of UCI and the surrounding community without charge. Advance notification of attendance is requested. For information, contact the Cancer Research Institute at cri@uci.edu.
Where
Sprague Hall
839 Health Sciences Road, First Floor, Irvine, CA 92617
When
Friday, May 2, 2025
9:30AM - 3:00PM PDT
Schedule
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 AM | Dr. Aimee Edinger CRI Interim Director | Welcome |
| 9:35 AM | Dr. Jianhua Yu | "Advancing CAR-NK and CAR-T Cell Therapies for Hematologies and Solid Tumors" |
| 9:55 AM | Dr. Suzann Duan | "Elucidating transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of cell lineage plasticity in neuroendocrine neoplasms" |
| 10:15 AM | Dr. Stanley Ng | "Harnessing spatial pathomics toward precision targeting of malignant tissue clones" |
| 10:35 AM | Break | |
| 10:50 AM | Dr. Mei Kong | "Ketone Bodies in Cancer Treatment: Friend or Foe?" |
| 11:10 AM | Dr. Andrej Luptak | "Illuminating the RNA world" |
| 11:30 AM | Dr. Elizabeth Bess | "Gut Reactions: The Gut Microbiome in Disease Treatment" |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch (Poster Reviewers Meeting) | |
| 1:30 PM | Dr. Reuben Shaw | Keynote Lecture: "The LKB1 tumor suppressor: decoding downstream targets in cancer metabolism, transcription, and immunotherapy resistance" |
| 2:45 PM | Trainee Poster Awards & Adjourn |
About our Speakers
Andrej Luptak, PhD
Professor,
Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
