The annual Cancer Short Course remains the signature cancer training program at JAX. The program purposefully provides a broad survey of the cancer research and experimental modeling from systems and computational genetics, to the tumor microenvironment and tumor progression, to inflammation and immunotherapy.
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Aug 16 - 27
2021
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 combines seminars from leaders in cancer genetics, cancer cell biology, emerging animal models of human cancers, cancer immunology and therapy, with workshop-based learning opportunities including computational workshops.
The program will be presented through a combination of on-demand lectures enhanced by live panel discussions, virtual workshops and Q&A sessions. Registration includes 24/7 access to course materials and recordings until October 31. Over nine days, participants will 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.
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.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
Associate Professor
Senior Scientist
Assistant Professor
Professor of Dermatology and Pathology
Full Professor
Professor, Knowlton Family Chair
Professor
Robert Rock Belliveau, M.D. Endowed Professor of Pathology
Professor and Chairwoman, Dept of Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology
Professor
Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Immunobiology
Chief Scientist, Cancer Immunology
Chief, Laboratory of Systems Biology, Chief, Lymphocyte Biology Section
Assistant Member, Public Health Sciences Division/Translational Research Program
Professor
Director, Center for Health AI; Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Senior Scientific Writer / Research Program Development
Professor, Department of Pathology
Professor
Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology; Director, Steele Laboratory
Professor of Cancer Development
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Oncology
Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology, Ben and Wands Hildyard Chair for Mitochondrial and Metabolic Diseases, American Cancer Society Research Professor
Professor
Professor
Associate Professor
Skirball Institute, Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmell Professor of Molecular Immunology, Department of Pathology, Professor, Department of Microbiology
Professor, President Emeritus and Honorary Fellow
Emil Frei Distinguished Professor
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Research Program Development
Associate Professor
Professor of Pediatrics
Senior Staff Scientist, Professor
Scientific Director & Emeritus Professor
Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine
Professor
Vice President, Cancer Immunology
Associate Research Scientist
Research Scientist
Director, Tumor Immunotherapy Program
Director, Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children’s Health
Director
Associate Professor
Unanue Distinguished Professor
Associate Professor
Director, Division of Cancer Biology; Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and Medicine
Professor
Medical Journalist/Author
Chief Medical Officer, JAX; Medical Director, MCGI
Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Associate Research Scientist
Professor
Professor, Internal Medicine
Professor, The Dattels Family Chair
Founding Director
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Professor and Associate Director of Computational Biology, The Florine Deschenes Roux Chair for Genomics and Computational Biology
Professor
Director, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Research Scientist
Professor and Senior Director of Basic Science
Associate Research Scientist
Professor of Computational Biology
Even though I have years of experience in cancer research, I still managed to learn an amazing amount in this course. It featured world class researchers giving engaging talks across wide ranging aspects of cancer, and I continue to come back to the lectures available to participants. Would definitely recommend.
Alan Chramiec, Graduate Student Researcher
The course provided some fantastic insight for someone primarily working in a core facility position and unfamiliar with many of the advances on the research side. In addition, hearing some of the benefits and drawbacks to different methods (I.E. flow cytometry vs imaging for dendritic cells) allows me to provide more informed suggestions to core users when they have a particular scientific question. The live discussions between knowledgeable scientists (both agreements and disagreements) gave useful insights into the current state of cutting edge cancer research. All in all, I greatly appreciate that the course was online this year, as I would not have been able to attend in person!
Michael S. Nelson
The short course included both the knowledge, technology and the defining point of the research and the most resent studies in the area. The workshops operated in this short course were very useful and covering the most hottest technology in the field, such as RNAseq. The panel discussions really helped to view the research and topic in different way and a great training on critical thinking. I believe most of the audience, just like me, could get more inspiration from this course. I am glad that one of my mentors (expert in cancer research and animal model) recommended this course to us. I highly recommend this course.
Chunye Zhang, DVM, MS, PhD Candidate
Professor, Director, JAX Cancer Center, Edison T. Liu Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
Professor, Knowlton Family Chair
Professor of Pediatrics
Professor and Chairwoman, Dept of Cell, Developmental, and Cancer Biology
Professor