BC Cancer Research Seminar Series and Trainee Lunch and Learn

Supported by the BC Cancer Foundation, the BC Cancer Research Seminar Series hosts prominent researchers in the cancer field for monthly seminars on Mondays at 12pm. Trainees are able to register for a Lunch and Learn session with the speaker, held from 1-2pm.


Next Speaker

february 3rd: DR. davide ruggero, pHd

Professor of Urology at the University of California, San Francisco

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Register for the Trainee Lunch and Learn session with Dr. Ruggero here.

Past Speakers

2025

january 13th: DR. christopher oakes, pHd

Associate Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at the Ohio State University

Deciphering the Epigenome to Improve Therapeutic Precision in Leukemia

2024

december 9th: DR. rosana pelayo, pHd

Head, Health Education and Research. Full Professor in Oncoimmunology and Cytomics. Mexican Institute for Social Security, Mexico

ADDRESSING CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA IN VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IN MEXICO FROM A COMPLEXITY PERSPECTIVE

november 4th: DR. Stephanie zhi-juan xie, pHd

Affiliate Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto

Stressing Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Understand Aging and Pre-leukemia

October 21st: Dr. David Knapp, phd

Principle Investigator, Cellular Engineering Research Unit, IRIC, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal

Dissecting Cellular Crosstalk and Regulatory Networks via Precision Engineering and Spatial Measurements

October 7th: Dr. joseph lehar, phd

Advisor to various Biotechs, Incubators, & Funds

Precision Medicine at Scale: Towards Finding the Right Treatment for Every Patient

september 16th: Dr. Kanaga Sabapathy, phd

Professor & Chair, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University

P53 THERAPY FOR SPORADIC AND FAMILIAL LI-FRAUMENI SYNDROME CANCERS

July 15th: Dr. Mamiko Sakata-Yanagimoto, md, phd

Professor in the Department of Hematology, Institute of Medicine, and in the Division of Advanced Hemato-Oncology, Transborder Medical Research Center at the University of Tsukuba

Immune Cells with Somatic Mutations Function as a niche for cancer cells

June 24th: Dr. frank wuest, phd

Professor and Chair of the Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta

Imaging Biomarkers in Oncology: The Role of Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals in the Era of Precision Oncology

may 6th: Dr. gina m. denicola, phd

Leader of the Metabolism Program at Moffitt Cancer Center

NRF2 and Cysteine Metabolism in Cancer

april 15th: Dr. daniela quail, phd

Assistant Professor at the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute and the Department of Physiology at McGill University

Fuelling Cancer Progression Through the Myeloid Compartment

march 4th: Dr. daniel schramek, phd

Senior Investigator at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital and Associate Professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Canadian Research Chair in Functional Cancer Genomics

In Vivo Veritas - Using CRISPR Technologies in Mice to Unravel Novel Cancer Driver Alterations and Novel Drug Targets

february 5th: Dr. nicolette fonseca, phd

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Vancouver Prostate Centre and the Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia

Leveraging Circulating Tumor DNA for Genomic and Immune Biomarker Discovery in Prostate Cancer

january 8th: Dr. sarah crome, phd

Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute within University Health Network (UHN), and Assistant Professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto

Balancing Act: Innate Lymphoid Cells as Rheostats of Immune Responses in Human Health and Disease