Collins Lecture Series Topics (2007 – present)
Topic: Mechanisms of Malignant Progression
Speaker: Robert Weinberg, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Optical and MR Molecular Imaging Approaches
Speaker: Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Molecular Targeting Combined with Radiation
Speaker: Michael Baumann, MD, University Cancer Center Dresden
Topic: Prospects for Stem Cell Based Medicine
Speaker: David Scadden, MD, Harvard University
Topic: Normalization of Tumor Vasculature and Microenvironment by Antiangiogenic Therapies: From the Bench to Bedside and Back
Speaker: Rakesh Jain, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Some Characteristics of Biological Damage Induced by Ionizing Radiations
Speaker: Eric Hall, DPhil, Columbia University
Topic: Endothelial and Epithelial Cell Apoptosis in the Acute Radiation Syndrome and During Radiation Therapy
Speaker: David Kirsch, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Changing Models of Bedside to Bench Research
Speaker: William Crowley Jr., MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Topic: Protonic Concerns
Speaker: Michael Goitein, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Potential Clinical Gains by Proton and Carbon Ion Beam Therapy
Speaker: Herman D. Suit, MD, D.Phil., Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Big Pharma: Marketing and Profits
Speaker: Marcia Angell, MD, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Quantifying Structures and Phenomena in Complex and Dynamic Biological Microenvironments from 4D/5D Optical Microscopy Data
Speaker: Professor Badri Roysam, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Topic: Minimally Invasive Chemical Sensors
Speaker: Professor Michael J. Cima, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Astronomical Medicine
Speaker: Alyssa Goodman, PhD, Harvard University
Topic: Small animal conformal irradiation: Bridging physics and biology radiation research
Speaker: Professor John Wong, Johns Hopkins University
Topic: Oncology Imaging Difficult Targets: Sensing Concealed Explosives at a Safe Distance with Radar
Speaker: Carey Rappaport and Michael Silevitch, Northeastern University
Topic: In Toto Imaging of Zebrafish to Digitize Development
Speaker: Sean Megason, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Topic: MRI in Radiotherapy: Treatment Assessment and Treatment Planning
Speaker: Yue Cao, PhD, University of Michigan
Topic: The Fukushima Reactors After the Earthquake and Tsunami
Speaker: Michael W. Golay, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Speaker: Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD, Columbia University School of Medicine
Topic: Confessions of a Converted Lecturer
Speaker: Eric Mazur, PhD, Harvard University
Topic: Climate Change: Challenging Science, Technology, Economics and Policy
Speaker: Ronald G. Prinn., PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: The Imperative of Bending the Healthcare Cost Curve
Speaker: Uwe E. Reinhardt, PhD, Princeton University
Topic: Clinical decision support in radiotherapy: strategies to discover and incorporate clinical, dose-volume, imaging, genomic, and proteomic risk factors
Speaker: Joseph O. Deasy, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Topic: Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer
Speaker: Franziska Michor, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Topic: Lessons Learned
Speaker: Michael Goitein, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Genome Engineering for Preventative Medicine? New Technologies & Open-access Data
Speaker: George M. Church, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Computation and Robotics
Speaker: Daniela Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: Clinical Simulation: Radiation Oncology to Neurosurgery – Making the Solution Fit the Discipline
Speaker: Frank J. Bova, PhD, University of Florida
Topic: Re-engineering the Tumor Microenvironment to Enhance Cancer Treatment: Bench to Bedside to Biomarkers
Speaker: Rakesh Jain, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Perceptions of Precision: The Evolution of Image-guided Radiation Therapy
Speaker: David Jaffray, PhD, Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital
Topic: The Origins of Cellular Life
Speaker: Jack Szostak, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Topic: Evolution of the dynamics of cancer
Speaker: Martin Nowak, PhD, Harvard University
Topic: Machine Learning for Oncology: Learning about Breast Cancer from Images and Text
Speaker: Regina Barzilay, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
