Friday, April 25, 2025
- 7:00 PM
- 8:30 AM
- 9:55 AM
CME Accredited
Sponsored by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
Moderator: Eli Wisdom, APSA Vice President
Peggy Hamburg, MD
InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)
- 10:55 AM
CME Accredited
Moderator: Kayla Schwartz, APSA Events Co-Chair
Vivian S. Lee, MD, PhD, MBA
Harvard Business School
- 11:40 AM
CME Accredited
~4 min talks picked from abstract submissions
Moderators: Cynthia Tang, Paul Noble, Anna Greka
11:00-11:04 AM: Graham Hogg, Washington University School of Medicine MSTP
Combined Flt3L and CD40 agonism restores dendritic cell driven T cell immunity in mouse models and patients with pancreatic cancer
11:04-11:08 AM: Najwa Labban, University of Virginia
Patient-derived response estimates from zero-passage organoids of luminal breast cancer
11:08-11:12 AM: Seungyeon Lee, Johns Hopkins
A Novel Mediator of Cardiac Hypertrophy and Heart Failure - Modulation of YAP via O-GlcNAcylation in the Heart
11:12-11:16 AM: Isabella L Melena, Washington University in St. Louis
Primary cilia regulate GLP-1 signaling in pancreatic beta cells.
11:16-11:20 AM: Sakila Nazia, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
Arginine biosynthesis: a carbamoyl phosphate salvage pathway in Mycobacteria tuberculosis (Mtb)
11:20-11:24 AM: Ezekiel Olumuyide, Icahn School of Medicine
HLA II genetics influence lung cancer Immunosurveillance
11:24-11:28 AM: Pablo Sanchez Vela, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Clonal hematopoiesis is an actionable driver of treatment resistance and metastasis in patients with solid tumors
11:28-11:32 AM: Alec Stepanian, Tufts Medical Center
BCR-Abl inhibitor ponatinib, but not the new drug asciminib, induces thromboinflammation, atherosclerotic inflammation, and plaque rupture in mice
11:32-11:36 AM: Zachary H Walsh, Columbia University
Massively scalable generation, discovery, and clinical (re-)classification of inborn errors of immunity using cutting-edge genome engineering
11:36-11:40 AM: Tiankai Yin, Washington University in St. Louis
VISTA as a Mediator of Immune Suppression in AML Initiated by DNMT3A and NPM1 Mutations
- 12:00 PM
CME Accredited
Purpose, Persistence, and Progress: Building the Next Generation of Physician-Scientists
Cynthia Tang, PhD
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
- 1:00 PM
- 3:00 PM
CME Accredited
Moderators: Paul Noble, Kayla Schwartz, Julie Bastarache
1:00 PM - 1:20 PM:
Selective autophagy: supporting healthy aging one protein at a time
Ana Maria Cuervo, MD, PhD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1:20 PM - 1:40 PM:
Sex, Cancer and the Y Chromosome
Dan Theodorescu, MD PhD
University of Arizona Cancer Center
1:40 PM - 1:50 PM
APSA Trainee Oral Abstract Presentation
Ectopic NMDAR expression unmasks germline-encoded autoimmunity
Sam O. Kleeman
1:50 PM - 2:05 PM
ASCI New Member
The Hidden Cost of Immunity: APOL1 and the Channelopathy of Kidney Disease
Opeyemi A. Olabisi, MD, PhD
Duke University School of Medicine
2:05PM - 2:20PM
AAP New Member
Advancing Precision Prevention via the Social Exposome: The Area Deprivation Index (ADI)
Amy Kind, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
2:20PM - 2:35PM
ASCI New Member
Loss of Tissue Resident NK Cells Associates With Pregnancy Complications in Uterus Transplant Recipients
Paige M. Porrett, MD, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
2:35PM - 2:55PM
AAP Ranney Award
Closing the loop in hemoglobin disorders
Swee Lay Thein, MB, BS, DSc
National Institutes of Health
- 3:30 PM
- 5:35 PM
CME Accredited
Moderators: Priscilla Hsue, Cynthia Tang, Eli Wisdom, Susan Quaggin, Elizabeth Speliotes
3:30PM - 3:50PM
Metabolic Perturbations in Human Cancer Progression
Ralph DeBerardinis, MD, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
The ASCI / Harrington Prize Lecture
Cancer Therapy: Target, Modality and Timing
Owen N. Witte, MD
University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
ASCI Presidential Address
The Enduring Flame: Our Legacy of Resilience, a Time of Unprecedented Potential, and Igniting the Future of Discovery
Anna Greka, MD, PhD
Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School, and Mass General Brigham
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
The ASCI / Seldin~Smith Award Lecture
Tumor-immune interplay during metastatic reactivation from dormancy
Benjamin Izar, MD, PhD
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
The ASCI / Ropes Award Lecture
Dispatch to Discharge: Addressing Systemic Dysfunction in the U.S. Healthcare System
Renee Yuen-Jan Hsia, MD, MSc
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM
The ASCI / Sullivan Award Lecture
Centering the Margins to Advance Kidney Health
Deidra C. Crews, MD, FASN
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
5:15 PM - 5:35 PM
The ASCI / Korsmeyer Award Lecture
The Enduring Impact of Mentorship in an Era of Scientific Disruption
Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD
- 6:45 PM
CME Accredited
Larry S. Schlesinger, MD
Texas Biomedical Research Institute
Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, MPH
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
- 7:30 PM
- 9:45 PM
- 10:00 PM
Event Location: SPIN Chicago
Address: 344 N. State St., Chicago, IL 60654
- 9:45 PM
Ticketed Event | Non-CME
Non-CME
Dinner Speaker
Evolution in the Age of Us: Understanding the biological impacts of our human footprint
Shane Campbell-Staton, PhD
Princeton University
