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