International Conference on Differentiation Therapy

November 11 – 14, 2009 – Chicago, IL

2009 Program Faculty

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Jonathan D. Licht, MD
Johanna Dobe Professor & Chief
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA

Martin S. Tallman, MD
Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA


FACULTY

Kenneth C. Anderson, MD
Kraft Family Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, MA, USA

Michael Andreeff, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Haas Chair in Genetics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX, USA

Susan E. Bates, MD
Lead Clinical Investigator
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, USA

P. Leif Bergsagel, MD
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ, USA

James E. Bradner, MD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Myles A. Brown, MD
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Navdeep S. Chandel, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA

Guo-Qiang Chen, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Shanghai, China

Sai-Juan Chen, MD
Professor of Medicine
Shanghai Institute of Hematology
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Shanghai, China

Christine Chomienne, MD, PhD
Professor
University Paris Diderot
Paris, France

John Crispino, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA

Carlo M. Croce, MD
Chair of Molecular Virology, Immunology & Medical Genetics
Professor of Internal Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA

Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD
Director
Institute for Cancer Genetics
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA

Hugues de Thé, MD
Professor
University Paris Diderot
Paris, France

Elizabeth A. Eklund, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA

Gerard I. Evan, PhD
Gerson and Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Research
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

Paul B. Fisher, PhD
Chair, Department of Human and Molecular Genetics
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA, USA

Steven D. Gore, MD
Professor of Oncology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Steven Grant, MD
Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA, USA

Douglas R. Green, PhD
Chair of Immunology
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN, USA

Hinrich J. Gronemeyer, PhD
Research Director
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Illkirch, France

Ronald Hoffman, MD
Albert A. and Vera G. List Professor of Medicine
Director Myeloproliferative Disorders
Research Program
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA

Jean-Pierre Issa, MD
Professor of Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX, USA

Ricky W. Johnstone, PhD
Associate Professor
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Peter A. Jones, PhD, DSc
Director
Distinguished Professor of Urology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology
USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Craig T. Jordan, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Rochester, NY, USA

H. Phillip Koeffler, MD
Professor of Medicine
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Scott C. Kogan, MD
Associate Professor in Residence
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA

Ross L. Levine, MD
Assistant Member, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA

Mark Levis, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Oncology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Izidore S. Lossos, MD
Director, Lymphoma Program
Professor of Medicine
University of Miami
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Miami, FL, USA

Guido Marcucci, MD
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University Medical Center
Columbus, OH, USA

Vikram Mathews, MD
Associate Professor
Christian Medical College
Vellore, India

William H. Matsui, MD
Associate Professor
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA

Ari Melnick, MD
Assistant Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY, USA

Wilson H. Miller Jr, MD, PhD
Professor of Oncology and Medicine
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Beverly S. Mitchell, MD
Professor of Medicine
Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford, CA, USA

Tomoki Naoe, MD, PhD
Professor
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
Nagoya, Japan

Benjamin G. Neel, MD, PhD
Director, Senior Scientist
Ontario Cancer Institute
Professor
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Clara Nervi, MD
Professor
Sapienza, University of Rome
Rome, Italy

Owen A. O'Connor, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA

Robert Z. Orlowski, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX, USA

Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Experimental Oncology
European Institute of Oncology
Milano, Italy

Leonidas C. Platanias, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA

Josef T. Prchal, MD
Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Genetics
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Victoria M. Richon, PhD
Vice President, Biological Sciences
Epizyme, Inc.
Wellesley, MA, USA

Neal Rosen, MD, PhD
Head of Development Therapeutics
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, USA

Steven T. Rosen, MD
Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL, USA

Neil P. Shah, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Hematology and Oncology
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA, USA

John D. Shaughnessy, PhD
Professor of Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR, USA

Yang Shi, PhD
Professor
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA

Ayalew Tefferi, MD
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA

Samuel Waxman, MD
Distinguished Service Professor
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, NY, USA

Max S. Wicha, MD
Distinguished Professor of Oncology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Arthur Z. Zelent, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Institute of Cancer Research
Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom


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