The 2022 Child Health Research Institute Pediatric Cancer Research Group Symposium will convene on Aug. 31 at the Truhlsen Events Center on the UNMC Omaha campus from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The symposium also can be attended virtually via Zoom.
An interactive poster session and lunch will be available to in-person attendees. Click here to register; registration is open until Aug. 24.
The symposium will bring together stakeholders in the fight against pediatric cancer from throughout the community to connect and share information. There is no cost to register; however, participants will be asked to if they will attend in person or virtually.
The morning session of this year’s symposium has been programmed for a broad audience interested in recent developments in pediatric cancer research. It will feature PCRG member presentations with clinical and epidemiological applications and updates on advocacy efforts.
Keynote speaker Joseph Neglia, MD, department head and professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, and CHRI scientific advisory board member, will present, “Surviving Childhood Cancer; Advances and Retreats.”
The afternoon sessions will feature scientific updates designed for fellow pediatric researchers from several PCRG members, the PCRG medulloblastoma collaborative and the PCRG hematological malignancies subgroup.
Some of the PCRG members who will present their work throughout the symposium include:
- Kishore Challagundla, PhD, assistant professor, biochemistry and molecular biology, UNMC
- Nagendra Chaturvedi, PhD, assistant professor, hematology/oncology, UNMC
- Sarah Holstein, MD, PhD, professor, oncology and hematology, UNMC
- Sutapa Ray, PhD, assistant professor, pediatric hematology/oncology, UNMC
- Rebecca Swanson, DNP, pediatric nurse practitioner, hematology/oncology & stem transplant, Nebraska Medicine
- Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, PhD, professor, epidemiology, UNMC