When:
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
1:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, Baldwin Auditorium, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Lurie Cancer Center
cancer@northwestern.edu
Group: Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
Category: Academic
In Vitro, In Focus:
Re-imagining How We Study Cancer
1:00pm-1:45pm: Patient Voices: The Human Impact of Cancer Research, Moderated by Atique Ahmed, PhD, Northwestern University
2:00pm-2:45pm: What's Missing from the Dish?, Samuel Weinberg, MD, PhD, Northwestern University
2:45pm-3:30pm: Modeling Biliary Morphogenesis & Tumorigenesis in 3D, Andrea McClatchey, PhD, Harvard Medical School
3:30pm-4:15pm: Modeling Ovarian Cancer Metastatis in the Unique Peritoneal Microenvironment, Sharon Stack, PhD, University of Notre Dame
4:15pm-5:00pm: Bridging Stress Biology & Cancer Metabolism, Rebecca Riggins, PhD, Georgetown University
5:00pm-5:45pm: Targeting Cancer Plasticity with Engineering & AI Approaches, Yogesh Goyal, PhD, Northwestern University
*Reception to follow 6:00pm-7:30pm