Events
Monthly Meeting Series
PRIME-TR's Monthly Meeting Series is held on the first Thursday of every month from 2-3 p.m. (CST) via Zoom. Speakers are subject to change. To be added as an attendee, please contact us at PRIMETR@mdanderson.org.
December 1, 2022
Neil Forbes, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: Engineering bacterial therapies for intracellular delivery and immune stimulation in solid tumors
January 5, 2023
TBD
February 2, 2023
Yifan Zhou, Ph.D. - Instructor, Department of Immunology, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: TBD
March 2, 2023
TBD
April 6, 2023
Stefany Moreno-Gamez, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: TBD
Upcoming Events & 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
External Advisory Board Meetings (January 8, 2021 & 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