Past K30 Conferences
Date |
Conference |
Speaker |
Title |
| 2025 | |||
| Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Departmental Research Seminar | Uyen Nguyen | Simulation of Valganciclovir Exposures to Predict Neutropenia Toxicities in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients |
| Tuesday, April 22, 2025 | Journal Club | Ananthi Rajamoorthi | TBD |
| Tuesday, April 15, 2025 | Ethics Conference | Chazmyn Riley | CRISPR/Cas9 Gene-Editing: Ethical Dilemmas with Breakthrough Therapy |
| Tuesday, March 25, 2025 | Departmental Research Seminar | Robert Carlson | Desmoglein 2 is a Safe and Effective Universal CAR-T Cell Target for Solid Tumors |
| Tuesday, March 18, 2025 | Journal Club | Kevin Lam | Bringing Model-Informed Precision Dosing to the Patient's Bedside |
| Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Christoph Buettner | Overnutrition causes insulin resistance through increased sympathetic nervous system activity |
| Tuesday, February 25, 2025 | Ethics Conference | Ariana Entezari | Ethics of Medical Tourism |
| Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | Departmental Research Seminar | Terry Dang | Evaluation of extended-release tacrolimus in pediatric transplant recipients |
| Tuesday, February 11, 2025 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Walter Kraft | TBD |
| Tuesday, January 28, 2025 | Departmental Research Seminar | Viren Soni | Development and Evaluation of Ethanol Free Buprenorphine Formulations for the Treatment of Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome |
| Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | Ethics Conference | Elizabeth Magno and Adeline Yang | Ethics in Research |
| Tuesday, January 14, 2025 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Kristin Bigos, PhD | Using Multimodal Brain Imaging to Measure the Pharmacodynamics of Methylphenidate in ADHD |
| 2024 | |||
| Tuesday, December 17, 2024 | Departmental Research Seminar | Mehnoosh Torkzaban | TBD |
| Tuesday, December 10, 2024 | Ethics Conference | Artem Belyakov | Truth in Advertising in the Pursuit of Scientific Truths: The Growth of Hype in Biomedicine |
| Tuesday, December 3, 2024 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Laura Bracaglia, PhD | Drug Delivery Strategies to Resolve Vascular Inflammation” |
| Tuesday, November 26, 2024 | Departmental Seminar | Victor Amajor | Population PK Model Development in Critically Ill Children |
| Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | Journal Club | Jean-Bernard Lubin | Inulin-Lipid Core–Shell Microcapsules Target the Gut Microbiota and Mimic the Pharmaceutical Food Effect for Improved Oral Antipsychotic Delivery |
| Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | Ethics Conference | Miao Cao & Kevin Lam | Drug Repurposing: Barriers to Innovation |
| Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | Journal Club | Chazmyn Riley | Exagamglogene Autotemcel for Transfusion-Dependent β-Thalassemia |
| Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Emily S. Day, PhD | Precision nanomedicines for oncology applications |
| Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Departmental Research Seminar | Adeline Yang | “Human thyroid cancer cell models: quantifying the impact of molecular therapy” |
| Tuesday, September 17, 2024 | Journal Club | Uyen Nguyen | “So Long, Covid" from Another Lens: Persistent Complement Activation and Thromboinflammation” |
| Tuesday, September 10, 2024 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Ryan Zurakowski, PhD | “Modeling antiretroviral transport and exclusion in the lymph node” |
| Thursday, May 30, 2024 | Gruber Lecture | Björn C. Knollmann, MD, PhD William Stokes Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology Fellowship Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology Director, Vanderbilt Center for Arrhythmia Research and Therapeutics (VanCART) |
Quest for Better Antiarrhythmic Drugs: Discovering New Tricks from Old Drugs |
| Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | Ethics Conference | Samantha Thomas and Soni Viren | Ethical Considerations for Precision Medicine |
| Tuesday, May 14 2024 | Departmental Research Seminars | Menoosh Torkzaban | GCC-directed CAR T cell therapy in metastatic colorectal cancer |
| Tuesday, May 7, 2024 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Larry Harshyne, PhD |
Responsible Conduct of Research: Best Practices at Jefferson |
| Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | Journal Club | Victor Amajor | Derivation and Validation of Novel Phenotypes of Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome in Critically Ill Children |
| Tuesday, April 9, 2024 | Ethics Conference | Genevieve Lewis and Jean-Bernard Lubin | Microbe-based therapeutics: ethical considerations in clinical settings |
| Tuesday, April 2, 2024 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Jacob Elmer Dicciani Associate Professor Assistant Chair of Graduate Studies Chemical & Biological Engineering Villanova University |
Overcoming Host Cell Defenses against Gene Therapy |
| Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | Departmental Research Seminars | Kevin Lam |
Dose Optimization of Azithromycin for Preterm Premature Rupture of the Membranes |
| Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Danny Welch | Functions of the forgotten genome: Mitochondrial SNP impact cancer metastasis, immune polarization, and the microbiota |
| Tuesday, March 5, 2024 | Journal Club | Viren Soni | Analytical Method Development of Drug Substances and Their Clinical Applications |
| Tuesday, February 20, 2024 | Ethics Conference | Adam Marc and Carrie Andrews | Use of Historical Controls in Clinical Research |
| Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | Departmental Research Seminars | Erik Blomain |
Evolutionary pressures shape development and radiotherapy response in lung cancer and sarcoma |
| Tuesday, February 6, 2024 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Ayyappa Chaturvedula | Applications of pharmacometrics in drug development and patient care |
| Tuesday, January 23, 2024 | Departmental Research Seminars | Ibram Mikhail | Morphine Pharmacokinetics in Hypodermically Cooled Patients |
| Tuesday, January 16, 2024 | Ethics Conference | David Jaffe and Terry Dang | Ethical Issues Regarding the Use of Human Organs or Tissue in Research |
| Tuesday, January 9, 2024 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Michael Verzi, PhD | Parallels between tissue regeneration and colon cancer |
| 2023 | |||
| Tuesday, December 19, 2023 | Journal Club | Adeline Yang | Advances in Molecularly Targeted Therapy for Thyroid Cancer |
| Tuesday, December 12, 2023 | Ethics Conference | Yanki Yarma and Mehnoosh Torkzaban | Ethics in biobanking |
| Tuesday, December 5, 2023 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Jason Moore | Clinical Pharmacology in Early Drug Development |
| Tuesday, November 14, 2023 | Journal Club | Chazmyn Riley | Hydroxyurea with dose escalation for primary stroke risk reduction in children with sickle cell anemia in Tanzania |
| Tuesday, November 7, 2023 | Seminars in Human Investigation | David Olsen, PhD | An Academic Pharma Antimalarial Drug Discovery Collaboration: From a Screening Hit to Advance Leads used to Decipher Malaria Biology |
| Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | Ethics Conference | Phuong Le and Victor Amajor | The Use of AI in Medical Research |
| Tuesday, October 10, 2023 | Journal Club | Jean-Bernard Lubin | The Combined Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 and Tryptophan Treatment Modulates Immune and Metabolome Responses to Human Rotavirus Infection in a Human Infant Fecal Microbiota-Transplanted Malnourished Gnotobiotic Pig Model |
| Tuesday, September 19, 2023 | Journal Club | Mehnoosh Torkzaban | GD2-CART01 for relapsed or refractory high-risk neuroblastoma |
| Tuesday, September 5, 2023 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Brent Chamberlain Associate Director of Cell and Gene Therapies at the Jefferson Institute for Bioprocessing (JIB). | Critical Considerations for Improved Cryopreservation of Cell Therapies |
| May 23, 2023 | Ethics Conference | Nicole Wolfset | The ethical considerations of using a pediatric hematopoietic stem cell donor |
| May 16, 2023 | Departmental Research Seminar | Molly Halloran | The Role of STAT3 Gain of Function Mutations in Large Granular Lymphocytic Leukemia |
| May 11, 2023 | 19th Annual Charles M. Gruber Lecture | Alexander A. Vinks, PhD, PharmD, FCP, Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation Endowed Chair, Professor of Pediatrics & Pharmacology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine | Model Informed Precision Dosing: The Clinical Pharmacologyof Goldilocks |
| May 9, 2023 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Gabe Romano, PhD | Chemokine-based approaches to treat immunologically “cold” tumors |
| April 18, 2023 | Departmental Research Seminar | Gideon Stitt | Effect of therapeutic drug monitoring-based dose optimization of piperacillin/tazobactam on sepsis-related organ dysfunction in patients with sepsis: a randomized controlled trial |
| April 4, 2023 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Chang Li, PhD | In vivo precision genome engineering in HSCs for hemoglobinopathies |
| March 21, 2023 | Departmental Research Seminar | Ibram Mikhail | Intravenous Morphine Pharmacokinetics in Hypothermic Cooling |
| March 14, 2023 | Journal Club | Kevin Lam | Evaluation of FDA Drug Label Recommendations for Coadministration of Antivirals and Acid-Reducing |
| March 7, 2023 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Damien Thevenin, PhD | Targeting Cancer Cells with pH-responsive Transmembrane Peptides |
| February 21, 2023 | Ethics Conference | Zachary Urdang | Ethical utilization of machine learning technology in patient care and research |
| February 7, 2023 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Matt Rizk, PhD | Clinical pharmacology and dose selection of the COVID therapeutic molnupiravir |
| January 24, 2023 | Departmental Research Seminar | Lindsay Weil | GUCY2C as a Target for CAR-T Cells to Treat Pancreatic Cancer |
| January 17, 2023 | Ethics Conference | Signe Caksa and Molly Halloran | Ethical Considerations for Phase 1 Trials in Oncology |
| 2022 | |||
| December 20, 2022 | Journal Club | Gideon Stitt | Feasibility of a Pragmatic PBPK Modeling Approach: Towards Model-Informed Dosing in Pediatric Clinical Care |
| December 6, 2022 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Aaron R Haeusler, PhD | Pathways to ALS interventions |
| November 22, 2022 | Departmental Research Seminar | Zachary Urdang | Unsupervised Discovery of Medications Associated with Favorable Acoustic Neuroma Outcomes |
| November 15, 2022 | Journal Club | Shaik Rashid | Increased pro-BNP in hematopoietic stem cell donors who receive G-CSF |
| November 8, 2022 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Kevin Downes, MD | Optimizing Vancomycin Therapy in Children |
| October 18, 2022 | Ethics Conference | Rachel Cain and Ibram Mikhail | Ethical Issues in Research Involving Participants With Opioid Use Disorder |
| October 11, 2022 | Journal Club | Molly Halloran | Risk of Malignancy with Genetically Modified T Cells? A Review of Long-term Follow-up for the Development of Subsequent Malignancies in Patients Treated with Genetically Modified IECs |
| October 4, 2022 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Abhik Das, PhD RTI International | Clinical trials in Neonatology: Design and analyses issues |
| September 13, 2022 | Ethics Conference | Tyler Alexander and Gideon Stitt | Vaccine approval and testing – weighing ethical considerations |
| June 21, 2022 | Journal Club | Gideon Stitt | Early Discontinuation, Results Reporting, and Publication of Pediatric Clinical Trials |
| June 14, 2022 | Departmental Research Seminars | Madison Crutcher | GUCY2C as a Target for CAR-T Cells to Treat Pancreatic Cancer |
| June 7, 2022 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Tomoyuki Mizuno, PhD | Physiologic based pharmacokinetic modeling as a tool for predicting drug behavior in pediatrics: Buprenorphine in neonates and other examples |
| May 31, 2022 | Seminars in Human Investigation | John Mondick, PhD | Cipaglucosidase Alfa/Miglustat Enzyme Replacement Therapy for the Treatment of Infantile and Late Onset Pompe Disease: Developing the Appropriate Model for the Question” |
| May 24, 2022 | Ethics Conference | Zachary Urdang | IRB for First Nations, data sovereignty, data sharing, and big-data |
| May 17, 2022 | Departmental Research Seminars | Alison O'Neill | Characterizing a Novel Preclinical Model for Targeted Drug Development in Papillary Thyroid Cancer |
| April 19, 2022 | Ethics Conference | Reena Ghosh | Exploring the Ethics of Digital Health and Wearables Research |
| April 12, 2022 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Babar Bashir, MD | Scientific & Therapeutic Potential of Phase I Trials – The evolution in oncology drug development |
| March 22, 2022 | Departmental Research Seminars | Ida Micaily | Chordoma: A Clinicopathologic Correlation |
| March 15, 2022 | Journal Club | Shaik Rashid | Daprodustat for treatment of Anemia in patients with CKD and ESRD: Analysis of ASCEND-ND and ASCEND-D Trials |
| March 8, 2022 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Kevin Downes, MD | Challenges to Personalized Antimicrobial Dosing in Pediatrics: How Microsampling Can Help Us Move from Therapeutic Drug Monitoring to Management |
| February 22, 2022 | Ethics Conference | Haani Jafri & Madison Crutcher | AmazonCare: Healthcare in the Palm of your Hand |
| February 15, 2022 | Departmental Research Seminars | Ibram Mikhail | Morphine Pharmacokinetics in Critically-Ill Pediatric Patients Through One Compartment Models |
| February 8, 2022 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Mara Becker, MD | The serendipitous journey to PROMOTE individualized therapy in JIA |
| January 18, 2022 | Departmental Research Seminars | Ranju Kunwor | Two step approach to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant in myelodysplastic syndrome patients |
| January 25, 2022 | Ethics Conference | Selin Isguven & Gideon Stitt | We Can’t Fix What We Don’t Measure: a Discussion on the Choice of Research Goals and Endpoints |
| 2021 | |||
| December 21, 2021 | Journal Club | Zachary Urdang | Adjuvants in cancer immunotherapy |
| December 14, 2021 | Ethics Conference | Colleen Isabelle & Alison O'Neill | Ethics of Activism in Clinical Research |
| December 7, 2021 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Sara L. Van Driest, MD, PhD. | Using Real World, Electronic Health Records Data for Precision Medicine Research |
| November 23, 2021 | Departmental Research Seminars | Shaik Rashid | FOLFIRINOX vs Gem-Abraxane in advanced stage pancreatic cancer |
| November 16, 2021 | Journal Club | Ida Micaily | “Osimertinib in EGFR mutated NSCLC” |
| November 9, 2021 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Patricia (Pat) Pioli, Ph.D., Associate Professor Dept of Microbiology and Immunology Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth | “Overcoming Immune Suppression in the Tumor Microenvironment” |
| October 26, 2021 | Ethics Conference | Lara Cheslow & Ibram Mikhail | "Emergency Use Authorizations: striking balance between speedy solution and safe practices" |
| October 19, 2021 | Journal Club | Ranju Kunwor | “Daratumumab-Based Treatment for Immunoglobulin Light-Chain Amyloidosis” |
| October 12, 2021 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Margaret (Maggie) Gatti-Mays, MD, MPH, FACP | “Enhancing Immune Responses in Breast Cancer through Novel Therapeutic Combinations” |
| September 14, 2021 | Ethics Conference | Usman Baqai & Alisa Olmsted | "Scientific reproducibility, transparency, and information sharing: to share or not to share?" |
| September 7, 2021 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Mark Yarchoan | Targeting Neoantigens to Augment Antitumor Immunity for Hepatobiliary Malignancies |
| June 15, 2021 | Journal Club | Ida Micaily | CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing in Sickle Cell Anemia |
| June 8, 2021 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Marco Davila, MD, PhD | The Clinical Application of CD19-targeted CAR T Cells and Lessons Learned |
| May 25, 2021 | Ethics Conference | Alison O'Neill | Consent, Assent, and Autonomy: Ethical Issues in Pediatric Research and Practice |
| May 18, 2021 | Departmental Research Seminar | Reena Ghosh | Use of Ferumoxytol Enhanced Cardiac MRI in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease |
| April 27, 2021 | Journal Club | Alison O’Neill | Dabrafenib and Trametinib Treatment in Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic BRAF V600–Mutant Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer |
| April 13, 2021 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Kathryn Lurain MD,MPH, National Cancer Institute | Cancer in People Living with HIV |
| March 25, 2021 | Charles Gruber Lecturer and Grand Rounds (Special Seminar) | Kathleen M. Giacomini, PhD, University of California, San Francisco | Transporters in Pharmacology and Medicine: Targets for Drug-Drug interactions, Drug-Nutrient Interactions and Genomic Medicine |
| March 23, 2021 | Departmental Research Seminar | Peter Altshular | The Evolving Landscape of Heart Transplant: Optimizing Allograft Utility From Donor and Recipient |
| March 16, 2021 | Journal Club | Madion Crutcher | Personalized Identification of Optimal HIPEC Perfusion Protocol in Patient-Derived Tumor Organoid Platform |
| March 9, 2021 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Gary Peltz MD, PhD, Stanford University | Computational Genetic and AI-Enabled Translational Discovery |
| February 23, 2021 | Ethics Conference | Shaik Rashid | Research in Prisons in the Post Covid-19 Era |
| February 16, 2021 | Departmental Research Seminar | Amanda McBride | Overcoming resistance to BCL-2 inhibition in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma |
| February 9, 2021 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Sarah Holstein MD, PhD, University of Nebraska | Development of Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate Synthase Inhibitors for Multiple Myeloma |
| January 26, 2021 | Ethics Conference | Ranju Kunwor and Ida Micaily | Research Ethics in Public Health Emergencies |
| January 19, 2021 | Departmental Research Seminar | Ambika Chidambara | Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial of intranasal corticosteroids in the treatment of mild to moderate pediatric obstructive sleep apnea |
| January 12, 2021 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Prof. Ingolf Cascorbi, MD PhD FBPhS, Director, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology | Pharmacogenomics of ABC efflux transporters in TKI therapy |
| 2020 | |||
| December 15, 2020 | Journal Club | Amanda McBride | Targeting Bfl-1 via acute CDK9 inhibition overcomes intrinsic BH3 mimetic resistance in lymphomas |
| December 8, 2020 | Ethics Conference | Neil Zhao and Reena Ghosh | Retracted: A study of scientific integrity |
| December 1, 2020 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Holly Ramage | Using Proteomics and Genomics to Unravel New Facets of Flaviviral Infection |
| November 24, 2020 | Departmental Research Seminar | Ranju Kunwor | PARP inhibitor in Metastatic Breast cancer |
| November 17, 2020 | Journal Club | Shaik Rashid | Graft composition as a predictor of outcomes in stem cell transplantation |
| November 10, 2020 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Marc H. Scheetz | Vancomycin Induced Kidney Injury. Can Precision Dosing and Biomarkers Lessen the Insult? |
| October 27, 2020 | Ethics Conference | Madison Crutcher and Joshua Barton | Hey, that's my DNA!: Genetic Testing and your privacy |
| October 20, 2020 | Departmental Research Seminar | John Flickinger | Listeria-Based Vaccines Targeting Guanylyl Cyclase C (GCC) for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer |
| October 13, 2020 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Young Hee Nam | The role of epidemiology in drug drug interactions: warfarin and sulfonylureas |
| September 22, 2020 | Journal Club | Ida Micialy | Lurbinectidin as second-line treatment in small cell lung cancer |
| September 15, 2020 | Ethics Conference | Weelic Chong & Peter Altshuler | Maintaining Ethical Standards in the Midst of a Pandemic |
| September 8, 2020 | Seminars in Human Investigation | Stephan Schmidt | Creating Synergy: A Rising Tide Raises All Boats |