Whitehead Institute Press Seminar Program
The Future of Cancer Research
May 12 & 13, 2005

Thursday, May 12

5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Keynote:
Douglas Hanahan, University of California, San Francisco

6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
MIT Museum Reception
265 Massachusetts Avenue

Friday, May 13

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration, continental breakfast
 
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Welcome
Keynote:
Robert Weinberg, Whitehead Institute

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m
Matthew Meyerson, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Daniel Haber, Massachusetts General Hospital
Q&A
 
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Break
 
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Thijn Brummelkamp, Whitehead Institute
Alfred Goldberg, Harvard Medical School
Q&A
 
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Keynote:
Mina Bissell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Tan Ince, Whitehead Institute
Juswinder Singh, BioGen-Idec
Q&A
 
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Tyler Jacks, MIT Center for Cancer Research
Q&A
 
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Break
 
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Rakesh Jain, Massachusetts General Hospital
Robert Blelloch, Whitehead Institute
Q&A

For questions, contact press_seminar@wi.mit.edu

Last updated April 21, 2005.