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Translational Oncology
Translational Oncology involves moving scientific discoveries made in a laboratory setting into clinical applications that enhance treatment efficacy and outcomes for cancer patients. Translational Oncology approaches include pre-clinical research, which can be done in an in vivo, in vitro, or ex vivo setting, before validating the laboratory findings with a clinical trial.
OCT 10, 2019 | 10:30 AM
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common bone tumor in pediatric and adolescent/young adult patients. Over the past three decades, significant improvements in the survival rates or therapeutic ap...
OCT 09, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Although about one in every seven men in the developed world will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, the mortality rate remains low with a 99% five-year survival rate for lo...
SEP 17, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: September 17, 2019TIME: 9:00am PTSpatial Transcriptomics (ST) technology reveals gene expression from up to one thousand spots across a tissue section. In this webinar, Dr. H...
SEP 17, 2019 | 6:00 AM
DATE: September 17, 2019TIME: 6:00 am PDT, 9:00am EDT, 2:00pm BST, 3:00pm CEST Abstract: Learning Objectives: one two Webina...
AUG 27, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: August 27, 2019 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Immunotherapies targeting PD-1 or PD-L1 have proven remarkably effective for treating cancer in some patients, with considerabl...
AUG 15, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: August 15, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Radiation therapy is a critical tool for the treatment of brain tumors, however, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation...
JUN 20, 2019 | 1:30 PM
The practice of precision medicine utilizes advanced diagnostic tools to identify specific groups of patients on the basis of particular molecular characteristics, and guide their treatment w...
JUN 20, 2019 | 1:30 PM
Tumor heterogeneity is a hallmark of cancer and can have significant impact on identifying drivers, including those that may be therapeutically relevant. Although, the traditional sequencing...
JUN 20, 2019 | 12:00 PM
This talk will review successful efforts at Washington University to employ novel reagents and informatics to the problem of rare allele detection. I will discuss a published bakeoff of in si...
JUN 20, 2019 | 10:30 AM
The development of automated DNA sequencers utilizing Sanger sequencing and capillary electrophoresis made it possible to develop the first draft sequences of the human genome. The cost of do...
JUN 20, 2019 | 10:30 AM
In this presentation, Dr. Kothari will provide an overview of the Precision Medicine Initiative from NIH and how NGS technologies have helped the researchers to look deep inside the human tra...
