Conference Speakers
The conference featured a Keynote Speaker:
- Mark Prince, the Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology – HNS University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Centre in Michigan, USA. The title of his seminar was “Head and neck cancer cells: from discovery to novel therapies”.
Additional presentations were made by local investigators, including Dr. M. Uppalapati (Pathology), Dr. R. Geyer (Pathology), Dr. S. Ahmed (Oncology, SCA), Dr. I. Mendez (Surgery), Dr. R. Singh (Biochem-Micro-Immun), C. Cunningham (Pathology), B. Vigliarolo (Chemistry), and R. Rai (Pharm & Nutr).
Trainee Presentation Winners:
The conference also included poster presentations, and recognized two poster winners:
Graduate Student, First Place ($300):
Ashley Sutherland (Supervisor: Dr. R. Geyer, Dept of Pathology)
Engineering T cells to become cancer killers: modulating CAR T therapeutics with protein ligase system Spy Tag/Spy Catcher
Graduate Student, Second Place ($200):
Aditya Mandapati (Supervisor: Dr. E. Lukong, Dept of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology)
The role and mechanism of action of BRK in tamoxifen resistant breast cancer
The conference also included trainee oral presentations, and recognized one winner:
Graduate Student ($300):
Brady Vigliarolo (Supervisor: Dr. C. Phenix, Dept of Chemistry)
Toward sensitive and selective PET imaging of cathepsin B activity
The success of the conference was in large part due to excellent job of organizers: Drs. Keith Bonham, Erique Lukong and Silvana Papagerakis. Invaluable assistance was provided by Sheila Ash, Lori Amson and Mark Boyd (logistics). This conference was supported by funds from the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation and ThermoFisher Scientific.