Conference Description
The Gordon Research Seminar on Hormone-Dependent Cancers is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas. The meeting provides trainees with opportunities to network and collaborate with others performing similar research as well as to meet leaders in the field through career development focused presentations.
While the last 50 years have provided major advancements for the treatment and eradication of hormone-dependent cancers, these options have disadvantages for many patients including ineffectiveness, intolerable side effects, and endocrine resistance. This meeting will focus on both (1) factors that drive endocrine resistance and metastasis and (2) alternative therapies for hormone-dependent cancers including breast, prostate, ovarian, and others.
Application Instructions
The seminar will feature approximately 10 talks and 2 poster sessions. All attendees are expected to actively participate in the GRS, either by giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster. Therefore, all applications must include an abstract.
The seminar chair will select speakers from abstracts submitted by May 3, 2019. Those applicants who are not chosen for talks and those who apply after the deadline to be considered for an oral presentation will be expected to present a poster. In order to participate, you must submit an application by the date indicated in the Application Information section above.
Program Format
Gordon Research Seminars are 2-day meetings which take place on the Saturday and Sunday just prior to the start of the associated GRC. The GRS opens with a 1-hour introductory session on Saturday afternoon, followed by a poster session, dinner and a 2-hour session in the evening. Sunday morning begins with breakfast and is followed by another 2-hour session, a second poster session, and lunch. A final 1-hour session takes place just after lunch, and the associated GRC begins later that evening.
An outline of the program components for this GRS is displayed below. The seminar chair is currently developing their detailed program schedule, which will include the speakers they select from submitted abstracts, in addition to any additional components outlined below. The detailed program will be available by June 3, 2019. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Speaker
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Karen Knudsen (Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, USA)
Speakers
- To Be Selected from Submitted Abstracts
Discussion Leaders
- To Be Selected from Submitted Abstracts
Mentorship Component
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Courtney Andersen (AstraZeneca, USA)
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Charlotte Bevan (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
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Daniel Gioeli (University of Virginia, USA)
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Jamie Holloway (Science 37, USA)
