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Allison Institute Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
The seminar takes place Mondays from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at TMC3 Collaborative Bldg., Hermann Hall 2nd Floor, 7255 Helix Park Ave., Houston, TX 77030. The series features top speakers in a range of clinical and discovery science fields directly related to the Allison Institute’s goals of bringing immunotherapy to all patients and cancers.
Colin Stroud Distinguished Seminar
Monday, Feb. 16
Note special location: TMC3 Collaborative Bldg., Helix Atrium 1st Floor
Title of seminar: "Engineering immunity from first principles"
Speaker: K. Christopher Garcia, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University
Past Seminars: 2025–2026
| Date |
Speaker |
|---|---|
| September 8, 2025 | Wenyi Wang, Ph.D. Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, MD Anderson |
| September 15, 2025 | Simona Colla, Ph.D. Leukemia, MD Anderson |
| September 22, 2025 | Jia Wu, Ph.D. Imaging Physics, MD Anderson |
| September 29, 2025 | Ken Chen, Ph.D. Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, MD Anderson |
| October 6, 2025 | Eric Gardner, Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medicine Meyer Cancer Center |
| November 3, 2025 | Bingxu Liu, Ph.D. University of Washington |
| November 10, 2025 | Zhibin Zhang, Ph.D. Immunology, MD Anderson |
| November 17, 2025 | Gwendalyn Randolph, Ph.D. WashU Medicine 100th Allison Institute Seminar |
| November 24, 2025 | Michael Green, Ph.D. Lymphoma-Melanoma, MD Anderson |
| December 1, 2025 | Irfan Asangani, Ph.D. Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
| December 8, 2025 | Humam Kadara, Ph.D. Translational Molecular Pathology, MD Anderson |
| December 15, 2025 | Yuqi Tan, Ph.D. Medicine, Stanford University |
| January 5, 2026 | Katharina Schlacher, Ph.D. Cancer Biology, MD Anderson |
| January 12, 2026 | Alexander Rudensky, Ph.D. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| January 26, 2026 | Yapeng Su, Ph.D. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center |
Past Seminars: 2024–2025
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| September 9, 2024 | Guillermina Lozano, Ph.D. Genetics, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| September 16, 2024 | Kevin McBride, Ph.D. Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| September 23, 2024 | Hussein Sultan, Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis |
| September 30, 2024 | Sara Zanivan, Ph.D. Cancer Research Beatson Institute, University of Glasgow |
| October 7, 2024 | Richard Gilbertson, Ph.D. Cambridge Cancer Center |
| October 14, 2024 | Hojong Yoon, Ph.D. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| October 21, 2024 | James Welsh, M.D. Thoracic Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| October 28, 2024 | Aerin Yang, Ph.D. Stanford University |
| November 18, 2024 | Benjamin Winer, Ph.D. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| November 25, 2024 | Dolores Hambardzumyan, Ph.D., M.B.A. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| December 2, 2024 | Anirban Maitra, M.B.B.S. MD Anderson, Anatomical Pathology |
| December 9, 2024 | Stephanie Watowich, Ph.D. MD Anderson, Immunology |
| December 16, 2024 | Thomas Mann, Ph.D. Salk Institute |
| January 6, 2025 | Rodrigo Romero, Ph.D. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| January 13, 2025 | Daniela Cerezo- Wallis Yale University School of Medicine |
| January 27, 2025 | Kipp Weiskopf Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research |
| February 3, 2025 | Rahul Sheth, M.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| February 10, 2025 | Pavan Bachireddy, M.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| February 17, 2025 | Nichollas Till Stanford University |
| February 24, 2025 | Judy Lieberman Harvard Medical School |
| March 3, 2025 | Gabriel Rabinovich Universidad de Buenos Aires |
| March 10, 2025 | Rafael Casellas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| March 17, 2025 | Steven Blum Harvard Medical School |
| April 7, 2025 | Erez Baruch Cancer Medicine, MD Anderson |
| April 24, 2025 | Jaime L. Schneider Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School |
| April 21, 2025 | Gavin Dunn Harvard Medical School |
| May 5, 2025 | Ben Schrank Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson |
| May 12, 2025 | Divij Mathew, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania |
| May 19, 2025 | Giannicola Genovese, Ph.D. Genitourinary Medical Oncology, MD Anderson |
| June 2, 2025 | Meriem Belabed, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
Past Seminars: 2023–2024
| Date |
Speaker |
|---|---|
| September 25, 2023 | Jeffrey Molldrem, M.D. Hematopoietic Biology & Malignancy, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| October 2, 2023 | Xi Chen, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston |
| October 9, 2023 | Martina Molgora, Ph.D. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis |
| October 16, 2023 | Guolan Lu, Ph.D. Stanford University |
| October 23, 2023 | Garry Nolan, Ph.D. Allison Institute Adjunct Member Stanford University |
| October 30, 2023 | Haydn Kissick, Ph.D. Emory University |
| November 6, 2023 | Mauro Di Pilato, Ph.D. Immunology, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| November 20, 2023 | Ming Li, Ph.D. Memorial Sloan Kettering |
| November 27, 2023 | Moran Amit, M.D., Ph.D. Head & Neck Surgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| December 4, 2023 | Maura Gillison, M.D., Ph.D. Thoracic Head & Neck Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| December 18, 2023 | Ansuman Satpathy, M.D., Ph.D. Stanford University |
| January 8, 2024 | Niroshana Anandasabapathy, M.D., Ph.D. Weill Cornell Medicine |
| January 22, 2024 | Paulo C. Rodriguez, Ph.D. Moffitt Cancer Center |
| January 29, 2024 | Robert R. Jenq, M.D. Genomic Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| February 5, 2024 | Roza Nurieva, Ph.D. Immunology, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| February 12, 2024 | Naval Daver, M.D. Leukemia, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| February 19, 2024 | Javid Moslehi, M.D. Cardio-Oncology and Immunology Program, UCSF School of Medicine |
| February 26, 2024 | Pavan Bachireddy, M.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| March 11, 2024 | Joseph Sun, Ph.D. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| March 18, 2024 | Hagop Kantarjian, M.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| March 25, 2024 | Humsa Venkatesh, Ph.D. Harvard University |
| April 1, 2024 | Kristen Pauken, Ph.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| April 15, 2024 | Katy Rezvani, M.D., Ph.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| April 22, 2024 | Nelson LaMarche, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| April 29, 2024 | Jian Hu, Ph.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| May 6, 2024 | Sami Zaidi, M.D., Ph.D. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| May 13, 2024 | Shengqing Gu, Ph.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| May 20, 2024 | Daniel Goodman, Ph.D. University of California San Francisco 60th Allison Institute Seminar |
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