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DCRI Seminars

DCRI Seminar Schedule for 2022 - 2023

Feb 14, 2023: Karun Sharma, M.D., Ph.D. (Interventional Oncology Children’s National Medical Center Washington (DC)
"Focused Ultrasound in the Treatment of Childhood Cancers”

March 15, 2023: Yasmina Laouar, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)
“The Ontogeny of the Mechanisms of Immune Regulation”

June 13, 2023: Frank McCormack, M.D. (University of Cincinnati)
“The Lung/Bone Axis”

DCRI Seminar & Chalk Talk Schedule for 2021 - 2022

Seminars

Tuesday, January 11, 2022: Brian Stansfield, M.D. (Augusta University)
“Rare Diseases and the General Population: Leveraging Heritable Mutations in the Pathogenesis of Arteriopathy”

Monday, February 7, 2022: Bill Smoyer, M.D. (Nationwide Children’s Hospital)
“Drug Repurposing: Translation from Pre-Clinical Studies to Pivotal Clinical Trials in Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome”

Tuesday, March 8, 2022: Ryan Roberts, M.D., Ph.D. (Nationwide Children’s Hospital)
“Metastasis as an evolutionary microcosm: competition, cooperation, and adaptation facilitate lungcolonization”

Chalk Talks

  • October 12, 2021: John Baatz, Ph.D.
  • December 14, 2021: Ramin Eskandari, M.D.
  • April 12, 2022: Denis Guttridge, Ph.D.
  • May 10, 2022: Dieter Haemmerich, Ph.D.
  • June 14, 2022: Martin Kang, Ph.D.
  • July 12, 2022: Mush Khan, Ph.D.
  • August 9, 2022: Jacqueline Kraveka, D.O.
  • September 13, 2022: Takako Makita, Ph.D.
  • October 11, 2022: Susan Reed, Ph.D.
  • November 8, 2022: Jezabel Rodriguez, Ph.D.
  • December 13, 2022: Inderjit Singh, Ph.D.
  • January 10, 2023: Heidi Steflik, M.D.
  • February 14, 2023: Bobby Thomas, Ph.D.
  • March 14, 2023: Katherine Twombley, M.D.
  • April 11, 2023: Carol Wagner, M.D.

DCRI Seminar & Chalk Talk Schedule for 2020 - 2021

Seminars

February 11, 2020: Robert Heuckeroth, Ph.D. (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)
“Broken bowel and the second brain: Mechanistic approaches to bowel motility disorders and the potential for novel therapy”

February 18, 2020: Ruoning Wang, Ph.D. (Ohio State University)
“Metabolic Alliances and Targeted Therapies in Pediatric Solid Tumors”

March 10, 2020: Sam Cheshier, Ph.D. (University of Utah)
"Targeting Group 3 MB Stem Cells and Metastasis: A story of Notch 1 and CD47”

March 9, 2021: Jyothsna Gattineni, M.D. (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
“Fibroblast Growth Factor 23: A Friend, Foe or an Innocent Bystanderin Kidney Disease Associated Heart Disease”

April 13 Seminar: Jeffrey Molkentin, Ph.D. (Cincinnati Children’s)

TBD Seminar: Betty Pace, M.D. (Augusta University)
“New Era of Combination Drug Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

Chalk Talks

  • January 14: Carol Wagner, M.D.
  • October 13: Denis Guttridge, Ph.D.
  • November 10: Katherine Twombley, M.D.
  • December 8: Sue Reed, Ph.D.

DCRI Seminar & Chalk Talk Schedule for 2018 - 2019

Seminars

January 8, 2019: Yoel Sadovsky, M.D. (University of Pittsburgh)
“Placental exosomes in maternal-fetal communication”

March 12, 2019: Judy Aschner, M.D. (Albert Einstein College)
"Environmental Exposures in the NICU and Child Health Outcomes”

May 14, 2019: Tom Look, M.D. (Harvard Medical School)
“Broad Anti-tumor Activity with Potent Activators of the Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A) Tumor Suppressor"

2018 Chalk Talks

  • June 12: Sakamuri Reddy, Ph.D.
  • July 10: Dieter Haemmerich, Ph.D.
  • October 9: John Baatz, Ph.D.
  • November 13: Mush Khan, Ph.D.
  • December 11: Kyu Lee, Ph.D.

2019 Chalk Talks

  • February 12: Denis Guttridge, Ph.D.
  • April 9: Carol Wagner, M.D.
  • June 11: Rita Ryan, M.D.
  • July 2: Kyu Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
  • August 13: Takako Makita, Ph.D.
  • September 10: John Baatz, Ph.D.
  • October 8: Bobby Thomas, Ph.D.
  • November 12: Dieter Haemmerich, Ph.D.
  • December 10: Ramin Eskandari, M.D.