Conference Speakers
The conference featured Keynote Speakers.
- Dr. Paul Rennie, from the Vancouver Prostate Centre, B.C. The title of his seminar was “Discovery and Drug Targeting of Novel Sites on the Androgen Receptor to Inhibit Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer”.
Additional presentations were made by local investigators, including Dr. S. Yadav (SCA, Medical Oncology), Dr. E. Price (Chemistry), Dr. S. Ahmed (SCA, Medical Oncology), Mr. F. Islam (student, Biochemistry), Dr. N. Venugopal (SCA, Clinical Medical Physics), Dr. T. Arnason (Anatomy and Cell Biology), Dr. S. Papagerakis (Surgery) and Sponsor MilliporeSIGMA rep Ms. A. Cartman.
Poster Presentation Winners
The conference also included poster presentations, and recognized several poster winners:
Graduate Student, tied First Place ($200):
Chelsea Cunningham (Supervisor: Dr. F. Vizeacoumar, Oncology)
Exploiting the synthetic dosage lethal interactions of polo-like kinase 1 for cancer therapeutics
Graduate Student, tied First Place ($200):
Ashley Sutherland (Supervisor: Dr. R. Geyer, Pathology)
Targeting tumour-associated antigen HER3 using car t cells: a platform for screening T cell potency
Graduate Student, Second Place ($100):
Emily McEwen (Supervisor: Dr. A. Freywald, Pathology and F. Vizeacoumar, Oncology)
Targeting the EphB6 receptor in Cancer: The role of EphB6 in the drug-resistance of T-ALL cells
Best Student Oral Presentation, Graduate Student ($100):
Md Fahmid Islam (Supervisor: Dr. R. Geyer, Pathology and F. Vizeacoumar, Oncology)
Study of the essentiality of circular RNAs in human cancer through a functional genomic approach
Post-Doctoral Fellow ($200):
Dr. Shari Smith (Supervisor: Dr. D. Anderson, Oncology and Cancer Cluster)
Targeting cancer progression genes upregulated in CREB3L1-deficient breast cancer cells
The success of the conference was in large part due to excellent job of organizers: Drs. Keith Bonham, Franco Vizeacoumar, and Erique Lukong. Invaluable assistance was provided by Sheila Ash and Lori Amson, as well as Frederick Vizeacoumar (website/technical) and Mark Boyd (logistics). This conference was supported by funds from the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, the College of Medicine – University of Saskatchewan, ThermoFisher Scientific and MilliporeSigma.