OHNRG Monthly Seminar Series
Sharing Research and Developing Collaborations to Inspire Progress
During the academic year, the Oral, Head & Neck Cancer Research Group holds monthly seminars featuring scientists and clinicians from various departments and institutions.  The goal is to work collaboratively to translate key findings to novel therapies for this particularly challenging cancer type.
 
Seminars are held one Friday of every academic month, from 2-3 pm via Zoom.  See the seminar schedule below. 
 
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Oral, Head & Neck Cancer Research Group Monthly Seminar Schedule 

Seminars are held one Friday per month from 2-3pm, unless otherwise noted below.
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09/11/2020

Speaker: J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego
Talk Title: HNSCC in the New Era of Targeted and Immunotherapies
Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/OHNRGSeminars2020

10/16/2020
 

Speaker: Nisha D'Silva, BDS, MSD, PhD, Donald A Kerr Endowed Collegiate Professor of Oral Pathology, Professor of Dentistry, School of Dentistry and Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan
Talk Title: Oral Cancer: Corrupting the Microenvironment
10/16 Seminar not recorded

11/13/2020

Speaker: Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, PhD, Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: TGFbeta Updates:  Radiotherapy, Chemotherapy, and Immunotherapy: Oh My! 
Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/OHNRGSeminars2020

12/11/2020

Speaker: Michelle Arkin, PhD, Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: Cancer Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at the Small Molecule Discovery Center at UCSF
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
Link to Recording - MyAccess Login Required: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/OHNRGSeminars2020

01/22/2021

Speaker: Nan Jin, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: Therapeutic implications of non-canonical PIK3CA mutations in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
Link to Recording: To follow

02/12/2021

Speaker: Mekhail Anwar, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: TBD
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
Link to Recording: To follow

03/12/2021

Speaker: Aaron Tward, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: TBD
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
Link to Recording: To follow

04/09/2021

Speaker: Matthew Spitzer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: TBD
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
Link to Recording: To follow

05/14/2021

Speaker: Rosemary Akhurst, PhD, Professor, HDFCCC and Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco
Talk Title: TBD
Link to Seminar: Distributed via OHNRG listserv
Link to Recording: To follow

 

Archived Seminars