ENJOY SCIENCE Webinar Series
The MD Anderson Cancer Center ENJOY SCIENCE webinar series was developed to strengthen the connections between the scientific and medical community at MD Anderson, our colleagues, patients and friends from around the world.
This series highlights the incredible research taking place at MD Anderson while showcasing leaders from our research community.
Current and Upcoming Seminars
Spring 2025
March 20, 2025
April 17, 2025
Speaker Pending
May 1, 2025
May 15, 2025
Speaker Pending
Previous Seminars and Recordings
Spring 2025
Fall 2024
September 5, 2024
Decoding the Enigma of Cancer Complexity through the Lens of Giant Cells
September 19, 2024
Generating and characterizing animal models of human neurodevelopmental disorders
Link to video recording
October 17, 2024
Ras/ERK Mediated Phosphorylation of Dicer1: From Developmental Biology to Cancer Medicine
Link to video recording
November 21, 2024
Determinants of response and toxicity to CD19 CAR T cell therapy in lymphoma
Spring 2024
January 18, 2024
Coevolution of Cancer Cells and TME in Cancer Metastasis and Therapeutic Resistance
February 1, 2024
Targeting BCL2 family proteins in melanoma to overcome intrinsic and acquired resistance to standard of care BRAF/MEK inhibitors
February 15, 2024
Brain Metastases: A Final Frontier and Opportunity for Progress
March 7, 2024
Liquid Biopsy: From Discovery to Clinical Implementation
Link to video recording
Klaus Pantel, Ph.D.
March 21, 2024
AML, Interferon Gamma and the Immune System: An Unlikely Conversation
April 4, 2024
Tumor antigen spreading and Stroma disrupting T cell Therapy—The invention of attIL12
April 18, 2024
Environmental Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Hematologic Malignancies
Eyal Gottlieb, Ph.D.
May 2, 2024
May 30, 2024
Anesthetics and cancer progression: A summary of the current evidence
Link to video recording
Fall 2023
September 7, 2023
Multiplex Genetic Perturbation Screens for Understanding Cellular Function
September 21, 2023
Decoding the immune response to malignant pleural mesothelioma
Cara Haymaker, Ph.D.
October 26, 2023
Cancer Detection Through Machine Learning
Kuldeep Kumar, M.Sc., Ph.D.
November 16, 2023
The Interplay of Host, Microbial, and Tumor Metabolism: Obesity, Diet, and Immunotherapy Response
December 7, 2023
Interception in Lynch Syndrome: From NSAIDs to Vaccines and Beyond
Special Edition: June 23, 2023
ENJOY Life and Science for Deborah Silverman and Angelo Veronese
Topic: Glioblastoma: Where lies the paradigm shift?
Vinay Puduvali, M.D.
MD Anderson
Topic: MicroRNAs as tools to predict and overcome drug resistance: a focus on breast cancer
Marilena Iorio, Ph.D.
Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano
Banu Arun, M.D.
MD Anderson
Spring 2023
January 26, 2023
Topic: ALL 2023: Progress and Challenges
Partow Kebriaei, M.D.
Professor
Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
February 23, 2023
Topic: A Single Cell and Spatially Resolved Atlas of the Adult Human Breast
Nicholas Navin, Ph.D.
Professor
Genetics
March 30, 2023
Topic: Targeting DNA Damage Responsive Pathways in Cancer Therapy
Junjie Chen, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Experimental Radiation Oncology
April 27, 2023
Topic: Science-Driven Therapy of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Varsha Gandhi, Ph.D.
Professor
Experimental Therapeutics
May 11, 2023
Khandan Keyomarsi, Ph.D.
Professor
Experimental Radiation Oncology
May 25, 2023
Joe Marszalek
Executive Director
TRACTION
June 1, 2023
Isabella Claudia Glitza Oliva, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Melanoma Medical Oncology
June 9, 2023
Matthias Mann
Fall 2022
October 6, 2022
Topic: The Normal, the Not Quite Normal, and the Cancerous Lung: What the Cell Is Going On?
Humam Kadara, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Translational Molecular Pathology
October 20, 2022
Topic: Tumor Microenvironment Controls the Emergence and Progression of Malignant Cancer
Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Cancer Biology
November 3, 2022
Topic: Virus, Genes, and Gliomas: The Long and Winding Road
Juan Fueyo-Margareto, M.D.
Professor
Neuro-Oncology
November 17, 2022
Topic: Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
Srdan Verstovsek, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Leukemia
December 1, 2022
Topic: Elucidating the Tumor and Immune Cell Heterogeneity in GBM To Uncover Novel Therapeutic Targets
Krishna Bhat, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Translational Molecular Pathology
December 15, 2022
Topic: Cracking Open KRAS: A Clinical Perspective!
David Hong, M.D.
Professor and Deputy Chair
Investigational Cancer Therapeutics
Spring 2022
2021
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"Tumor Cell Total mRNA Expression Shapes the Molecular and Clinical Phenotype of Cancer"
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"Self-renewal, Clonal Architecture and Heterogeneity in Pancreatic Cancer: Lessons from Barcoding"
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"Targeting Epigenetic Machinery to Overcome Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Therapy"
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"Systemic Therapy for Hereditary Breast Cancer"
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"Histone Modifying Enzymes in Cancer: Lessons from the SAGA Complex"
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"Emerging Molecular Targets in Pancreatic Cancer"
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"Clonal Evolution and Heterogeneity of Acute Myeloid Leukemia"
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"Microbes in Tumors and Beyond"
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"Striving to Improve Outcomes for Pediatric Cancer Patients"
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"miR-27a* Regulation of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma"
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"Improving Cancer Outcomes by Reducing Radiation Toxicity"
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"Progress in Leukemias – 2021 Vision"
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"Recovery of Chemotherapy Related Cardiac Injury"
2020
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"How AI helps us address the challenge of big cancer data"
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"T-Cell Therapy MYTHbusters"
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"Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy"
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"How transformation in the management of hematologic cancer will impact the invasive fungal disease ecosystem"
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"Personalized Therapy with Erdafitinib: The First Biomarker-Targeted Therapy for Urothelial Cancer"
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"The platelet lifeline to cancer"
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"Mechanism of Metastasis: Novel Strategies to Stop Tumor Spread"
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"Aggressive Variant Prostate Cancers: What They Are and Why They Matter?"
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"Functional Dissection of Stem Cell Lineage Plasticity in the Skin Epithelia"
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"The Cancer Epigenome – Junk to Gold"
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"Adventures in Oncology Drug Discovery"
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"CAR NK cells: a drive to the future of cell therapy"
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"Progress in the treatment of MDS at MD Anderson Cancer Center"
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"Painting a molecular portrait of cancer: in the lab and on the computer"
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"Challenges and Strategies in Ascribing Functions to Long Noncoding RNAs in Normal Physiology and Cancer"
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"Leveraging systems genetics and medicine for novel cancer therapeutics"
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"Parathyroid disease: clinical aspects and cancer of MEN1"
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"Cancer Takes Nerves"
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"Hypoxia drives tumor immune suppression and immunotherapy resistance"
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"Breakthroughs in the Understanding and Treatment of CNS Metastases from Melanoma"
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"The Evolution of Lung Cancer - Captured in a Liquid Biopsy"
Seminar Hosts
Conference Organizer: Ebonie Hatfield
George Calin, M.D., Ph.D.
gcalin@mdanderson.org
Alessandra Ferrajoli, M.D.
aferrajo@mdanderson.org