Cancer Biology Program Research Retreat
SAVE THE DATE!
The 2025 Cancer Biology Program Research Retreat
will be held at the Hogan Campus Center at the College of the Holy Cross on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from 8:00AM-5:00PM
Keynote Speaker: Ranjit Bindra, MD, PhD
About the Event
The annual Cancer Biology Program Research Retreat is an all-day event that brings together researchers from UMass Chan Medical School studying diverse aspects of cancer biology, and is a free, private event for the UMass Chan community. The retreat is planned by trainees in the Cancer Biology Program in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and is run with the assistance of the MCCB administrative team. Held at the Hogan Campus Center at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, the retreat has a relaxed atmosphere that is conducive to interactions, discussions and networking. The event attracts over 150 faculty, postdocs and grad students, and features platform presentations (by faculty, postdocs and grad students) and a poster session (postdocs and grad students).
Keynote Speakers
The highlight of the retreat is a keynote address from a prominent researcher, who is selected, invited and hosted by a committee of students in the Cancer Biology graduate program. Recent keynote speakers include:
William Sellers, MD
Core Institute Member, Broad Institute
Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
“From Cancer Dependence to Cancer Therapeutics”
Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
“Breast Tumor Evolution”
William G. Kaelin Jr., MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, DFCI and Harvard Medical School
Associate Director for the DFCI Cancer Center
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2019 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
“The von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Gene: Insights into Oxygen Sensing, Cancer and Drugging the Undruggable”
Matthew Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Lester Wolfe Professor in Molecular Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“How Studying Metabolism has Informed Cancer Biology”