2024 Featured Speakers

OCMF is honored to be featuring speakers from across a number of institutions and disciplines.

Featured Keynote

Dr. Don Cleveland

Professor and Chair of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of California, San Diego.

Topic: Complex chromosome rearrangements and their significance in the context of cancer

Featured Keynote

Dr. Denise Montell

Duggan Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Topic: Harnessing cellular cannibalism to combat cancer

Confirmed 2024 Speakers

Wenfeng An, PhD

"Preclinical study of a novel vaccine against head and neck cancer"

South Dakota State University

Jeremy Borniger, PhD

“Sleep Disturbances in Cancer“

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Huy Q Dinh, PhD

"Single-cell Analysis of Fallopian Tube Immune Cells and Implications for Early Cancer Detection"

University of Wisconsin

Kevin Elias, MD

"Early detection in ovarian cancer: the role of miRNAs"

Harvard

Michael Kareta, PhD

"Identifying novel pathways of SCLC progression"

Sanford Research

Hilary Kenny, PhD

"The influence of the tumor microenvironment in ovarian cancer development and metastasis"

University of Chicago

Susan Lutgendorf, PhD

"The Biology of Stress and Resilience in Ovarian Cancer"

University of Iowa

Honami Naora, PhD

"Cell dynamics in the omentum: Insights into pre-metastatic niche formation and metastasis prevention"

University of Texas

Steven Powell, MD

"The Next Generation in Immunotherapy: Ovarian Cancer"

Sanford Research

Seth Tomchik, PhD

"Metabolic alterations in neurofibromatosis type 1"

University of Iowa

Barbara Vandehyden, PhD

"The aging ovary and ovarian cancer risk"

University of Ottawa