Events
Monthly Meeting Series
PRIME-TR's Monthly Meeting Series is held on the first Thursday of every month from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. (Central Time) via Zoom. Speakers are subject to change. To be added as an attendee, please contact us at PRIMETR@mdanderson.org.
May 1, 2025
Garry Nolan, Ph.D., Professor, Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Title: A post-data world: LLM's and the end of data paralysis
June 5, 2025
Julia Ransohoff, M.D., Medical Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine
Title: TBD
July 3, 2025
Holiday/No seminar
August 7, 2025
TBD
September 4, 2025
Sean Gibbons, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
Title: TBD
Funding Opportunities
May 5, 2022 (earliest submission date)
PAR-22-085: Microbial-based Cancer Imaging and Therapy- Bugs as Drugs (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
May 16, 2022 (earliest submission date)
PAR-22-086: Microbial-based Cancer Imaging and Therapy- Bugs as Drugs (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Past Events
December 5, 2019
PRIME-TR Inaugural Retreat
Keynote Speaker: Katrine Whiteson, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
January 7, 2021
2nd PRIME-TR Retreat (virtual)
Keynote Speaker: Marcel van den Brink, M.D., Ph.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
February 24, 2022
3rd PRIME-TR Retreat (virtual)
Keynote Speaker: Laurence Zitvogel, M.D., Ph.D., Institut Gustave Roussy
March 21, 2023
4th PRIME-TR Retreat (hybrid)
Keynote Speaker: Susan Bullman, Ph.D., Fred Hutch Cancer Center
November 7, 2024
Seminar by Luigi Nezi, Ph.D., Group Leader, European Institute of Oncology
Title: The gut microbiota at the crossroad between local and systemic immunology in oncology
December 5, 2024
Seminar by Kai Li, Ph.D., Project Scientist, F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars Sinai
External Advisory Board Meetings
January 8, 2021, and February 24, 2022
Along with our institutional Working Group Leads, we are fortunate to have an external group of microbiome experts to provide us with their support. We would like to extend our continued appreciation to the following:
Ami Bhatt, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine (Hematology), Stanford University
Susan Bullman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Human Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Wendy Garrett, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University
Curtis Huttenhower, Ph.D., Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Harvard University
Christian Jobin, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition), University of Florida
Marcel van den Brink, M.D., Ph.D., Head of Hematologic Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Katrine Whiteson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine
Gary Wu, M.D., Associate Chief for Research (Gastroenterology) and Director of Molecular Biology Core, University of Pennsylvania Health System