About

Unlike a semester-long graduate course or an academic seminar series spread across a full year or more, the Cancer Short Course delivers a large amount of cutting-edge learning material into an intensive training period. The program is 70% seminar-based an 30% workshop-based, including computational workshops. Topics include cancer genetics, cancer cell biology, emerging animal models of human cancers, and cancer immunology and therapy. The program is designed around a daily schedule that balances lectures, hands-on workshops, informal meetings with faculty, and evening seminar and poster sessions. Over eight days, participants interact directly with faculty, JAX Cancer Center scientists, patient advocates and medical oncologists to gain broad exposure and knowledge as it relates to human cancer. It is held in a retreat-like setting and is limited to 50 participants to ensure a supportive, interactive learning atmosphere.

The course schedule is still under construction. Please view a previous year's schedule below for an idea of course content and flow.

This event is supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R25CA122819 and by funding to The Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center, Award Number P30CA034196. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.