2026 Cell & Cancer Biology Seminar Series
Seminar Series: 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021
April 9 - Leveraging DC Biology to Enhance Therapies of Cancer and Infections
Pawel Kalinski, MD, PhD
Vice Chair of Translational Research Development in Women’s Health, Magee-Women’s
Research Institute
Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Professor, Department of Immunology
University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
President, Translational Research Consortium of Cancer Centers (TRCCC)
Pittsburgh, PA
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
April 16 - HPV in Head and Neck Cancer: Biology and Novel Therapeutics
Theodore N. Teknos, MD
President and Scientific Director, Seidman Cancer Center
Jane and Lee Seidman Chair of Cancer Innovation
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Deputy Director, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Dept. of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Cleveland, OH
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
April 23 - Rewriting Cancer’s Fate - Unlocking Epigenetic Therapeutics through Mechanistic
Insights in PDAC
Gwen Lomberk, PhD
Joel and Arlene Lee Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Research
Chief, Division of Research; Director, Basic Science Research;
Department of Surgery; Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology & Toxicology
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
April 30 - Tumor Intrinsic and Microenvironmental Co-regulations that Promote Cancer Metastasis
Min Yu, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
Co-leader, Cancer Biology Program
Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
May 7 - tba
Costakis Frangou, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Lab of Dr. Jianmin Zhang
Dept. of Cell & Cancer Biology, Univ of Toledo COMLS
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
May 21 - Beyond the Cell Wall: KMT2D and the Ecosystem of Pancreatic Cancer
Jiaqi Shi, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436
May 28 - tba
Shi-Yong Sun, PhD
David A. Cole Family Professor
GRA Distinguished Cancer Scientist
Co-director of Thoracic Oncology Program of Winship Cancer Institute
Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
12:00 pm, Block Health Science Bldg., room 436