Program:
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Registration | continental breakfast | poster set up

10:00 - 10:40 a.m.
John Dick, PhD
Toronto General Research Institute, University of Toronto
"Modeling the leukemogenic process in human cells"

10:40-11:20 a.m.
Scott A. Armstrong, MD, PhD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
"Cellular origins of leukemia stem cells"

11:20 am-12:20pm
Lunch

12:20-1:00 pm
Owen N. Witte, MD
UCLA/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Stem Cells for Prostate Development and Prostate Cancer"

1:00-1:40 pm
Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
"Stem Cells and Cancer in the Breast"

1:40-2:20 pm
Peter Dirks, MD, PhD
University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children
"Cancer stem cells at the root of human and mouse brain tumors"

2:20-3:15 pm
Roundtable review of presentations

3:15-5:30 pm
Cocktail reception and poster session

6:00 pm Dinner (by invitation only):
Jeffrey S. Flier, MD
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
"Biomedical science at Harvard:  Should we change the paradigm?"

Faculty Co-chairs:
Gary Gilliland, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Head, HSCI Cancer Program

Jerome Ritz, MD
Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Member, HSCI Executive Committee