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Allison Institute™ Annual Events
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.
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| March 9, 2026 | Yang Zhao, Ph.D. Stanford University Medicine (Chris Garcia Lab) |
| March 16, 2026 | Aria Vaishnavi, Ph.D. Genetics, UT MD Anderson |
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 |
| February 16, 2026 | K. Christopher Garcia, Ph.D. Stanford University Colin Stroud Distinguished Seminar |
| February 23, 2026 | Xiling Shen, Ph.D. GI Medical Oncology, MD Anderson |
| March 2, 2026 | Haoxin Li, Ph.D. Scripps Research Institute |
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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