Stromal and Epithelial Plasticity in Cancer Progression and Therapy Resistance

This second symposium will focus on the processes controlling cell plasticity and differentiation in epithelial cancer cells and their surrounding stroma, and on how the crosstalk between these two types of cells impacts the tumor microenvironment.

Speakers:

Himisha Beltran
Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Maria T. Diaz-Meco
Weill Cornell Medicine

David Goodrich
Roswell Park Cancer Center

Jeffrey Hildesheim
National Cancer Institute

Raghu Kalluri
University of Texas MD Anderson

Michael Karin
University of California San Diego

Ekta Khurana
Weill Cornell Medicine

Ken Lau
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Ernst Lengyel
University of Chicago

Massimo Loda
Weill Cornell Medicine

Jorge Moscat
Weill Cornell Medicine

Peter Nelson
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Ellen Pure
University of Pennsylvania

David Rickman
Weill Cornell Medicine

Montserrat Rojo de la Vega
Cancer Cell

Charles Rudin
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Charles Sawyers
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Robert F. Schwabe
Columbia University

Michael Shen
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Mara Sherman
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Shannon J. Turley
Genentech

Organizers:
Maria T. Diaz-Meco
Massimo Loda
Jorge Moscat