Agenda

8 AM - 8:30 AM

Breakfast (Theater room, lower level)

8:30 AM - 8:50 AM

“To Be Announced” 

Francesca Duncan M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
IU School of Medicine

(Theater room, lower level)

8:50 AM - 9:10 AM 

“To Be Announced” 

MacKenzie (Church) White, MPH
Executive Director, End Lung Cancer Now
IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center/IU School of Medicine

(Theater room, lower level)

9:10 AM - 9:30 AM

“To Be Announced”

John Turchi, Ph.D.
Inaugural Executive Director, Tom and Julie Wood Center for Lung Cancer Research
Tom and Julie Wood Family Foundation Professor of Lung Cancer Research, and Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
IU School of Medicine

(Theater room, lower level) 

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

BREAK

9:45 AM - 9:55 AM

Community Outreach & Engagement

Katharine Head, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Director, PhD Graduate Program in Health Communications
IU School of Liberal Arts

(Theater room, lower level)

9:55 AM - 10:55 AM

Selected Oral Presentations (Post-Docs/Medical Fellows)
(10 min & 5 min Q&A) 

(Theater room, lower level)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Cancer Research Day Poster Session 1

(Multipurpose Room 450 A, B, C / Lunch provided to attendees during poster session)

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Cancer Research Day Poster Session 2

(Multipurpose Room 450 A, B, C / Lunch provided to attendees during poster session)

2:00 PM - 2:10 PM

Break and return to Theater Room (following poster session)

2:10 PM - 3:10 PM

Keynote Address

“Pharmacogenomics: How variable nicotine and nitrosamine metabolism alters smoking and lung cancer"

Rachel Tyndale, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist in Molecular Science
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Toxicology
University of Toronto 

(Theater room, lower level)

3:10 PM - 4:10 PM

Selected Oral Presentations (Graduate students)
(10 min & 5 min Q&A) 

(Theater room, lower level)

4:10 PM - 4:40 PM

Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks
(Theater room, lower level)

4:40 PM - 5:30 PM

Closing Reception. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres provided.
(Lower level lounge area located outside Theatre room)