“SHARP” (Seminars Hosted for Area Research Professionals) is the official seminar series of the Leroy T. Canoles Jr. Cancer Research Center. It occurs several times throughout the year. Since its inception in June/2014, renowned investigators of diverse research subjects have presented lectures. These lectures constitute an informative venue for the Center members to interact with leading scientists of a variety of disciplines.
9/18/2017
Dr. Frank Slack
"MicroRNA‐based therapeutics in cancer"
Harvard Medical School
3/05/2018
Dr. Alissa Weaver
"Function and Regulation of Secreted Cancer Exosomes"
Vanderbilt University
4/30/2018
Dr. Richard Drake
"Tissue Glycomics and Glycosylation Biomarkers of Disease: New Mass Spectrometry Approaches for Making Glycomics More Accessible"
Medical University of South Carolina
11/12/2018
Dr. Lance Liotta
Nanotechnology for proteomics: applications to personalized medicine
George Mason University
5/13/2019
Dr. Monte Winslow
Molecular Determinants of Lung Cancer Growth and Metastasis
Stanford University
9/30/2019
Dr. Michael G. Brown
Probing the Basis of Natural Killing in Virus Infection and Cancer
University of Virginia
Spring/2020
Dr. Ashish Lal
TBA
National Cancer Institute, NIH
Fall/2020
Dr. Matthew P. Goetz
TBA
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center