12th Annual Dan L Duncan Cancer Center Symposium Wrap-Up

The 12th Annual Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center Symposium: Focus on Translation and Training took place on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015 in Onstead Auditorium. The event was attended by over 350 people. It featured 160 research posters and a full day of cancer research lectures.

The symposium featured a keynote lecture from Dr. Patricia Ganz, Director of Cancer Prevention and Control Research and the Patients and Survivors Program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. The day also included presentations from the four abstract winners, talks from each of the cancer center's seven research programs, and two special sessions on training and education in cancer research from Baylor's dean for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Dr. Deborah Johnson, and Dr. Alicia Monroe, senior vice president of Academic and Faculty Affairs at Baylor.

The abstract and poster competition portion of the symposium was a great success with 160 total submissions. Four abstract winners were selected prior to the symposium and two poster winners were named at the end of the event. To the right is a complete list of winners and below is a selection of photos from our poster sessions.

Abstract Winners

Jana Knezevic
“Restoring MIR-200C in Claudin-low Breast Cancer Affects Tumor Growth, Therapeutic Resistance and Metastasis”

Dr. Edward Allan R. Sison
“The Novel CXCR4 Antagonist POL5551 Enhances Chemosensitivity in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)”

Dr.Christopher DeRenzo
“Antigen-dependent costimulation to improve T-cell therapy for cancer”

Dr. Zhifeng Yu
“Mechanism of Action of YM155 in Killing Ovarian Cancer Cells”

Poster Winners

Tiffany Hsu
“Oncogenic Myc confers a hyper-dependency on the spliceosome in human breast cancer”

Xiaoyong Fu
“FOXA1 gene amplification in ER+ breast cancer mediates endocrine resistance by increasing IL-8”