The Kidney Cancer Research Seminar Series

The Stanford Kidney Cancer Research Program presents a biweekly seminar series to bring together graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty from Stanford and the kidney cancer community. The Kidney Cancer Research Seminar Series occurs on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday from 12:00 to 1:00 PM in Grant S-289 and follows a work-in-progress format with active discussion among participants.

Seminar Dates and Speakers

• June, 2015
  "MYC induced mouse model of RCC" - Dr. Felsher
• May, 2015
  "Program Project Planning Meeting" - Dr. Leppert
• May, 2015
  "Characterizing the immune compartment in the kidney" - Dr. PJ Utz
• April, 2015
  "Circulating Tumor Cells in Advanced RCC - R21 update" - Drs. Fan, Wang
• April, 2015
  "Targeting the receptor tyrosine kinase AXL in advanced renal cancer" - Dr. Rankin
• March, 2015
  The Stanford Kidney Cancer Research Program: Shared Resources and Facilities
• February, 2015
  "Nanofluidic proteomic assay for serial analysis of oncoprotein activation in clinical specimens" - Dr. Fan
• January, 2015
  "Androgen receptor signaling in RCC" - Dr. Peehl
• August 27, 2014
  "MethylMix" - Dr. Olivier Gevaert
• August 9, 2014
  "Kidney Cancer Patient and Survivor Conference" - Drs. Srinivas, Fan, Chung, Leppert, Mittra and others
  Organized and sponsered by the Kidney Cancer Association


• February 25, 2014
  "New Radiology Research in RCC" - Aya Kamaya, MD


• January 7, 2014
  "Immunotherapy 2: Return of the Cytokines" - Aviva Weinberg, MD
  "The Future of Kidney Cancer Surgery" - John Leppert, MD MS


• May 21, 2013
  "Taking Targeted Therapy for AXL from the Lab to the Clinic" - Amato Giaccia, PhD
  "Nano-immuno Assays of the hypoxia pathway in RCC FNAs" - John Leppert, MD MS
  "Circulating Tumor Cells From Patients with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma" - Alice Fan, MD
  


• February 11, 2013
  "Utilization of cytoreductive nephrectomy and patient survival in the targeted therapy era" - Simon Conti, MD
  


• November 12, 2012
  "Mouse model of primary renal cell carcinoma metastasis to bone" - Maija Valta, MD PhD
  


• August 13, 2012
  "Meta-analysis of cancers using public data" - Purvesh Khatri, PhD


• April 9, 2012
  "Epidemiologic studies of RCC using the Stanford RCC database" - Benjamin Chung, MD


• December 5, 2011
  "Kidney Cancer Epidemiology: Data From the VA Health Care System" - John Leppert, MD
  "Neighborhood socioeconomic status and the incidence of renal cell carcinoma in California" - Rudy Rull, PhD
  

• October 24, 2011
  "Investigating the vHL Pathway in Renal Cell Carcinoma Progression" - Amato Giaccia, PhD
  


• August 15, 2011
  "Nanoscale Proteomic Analysis to Develop Novel Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for RCC" - Alice Fan, MD
  "Evolution and Utility of the Stanford Renal Cell Carcinoma Database" - Lauren Harshman, MD


• June 13, 2011: First Kidney Cancer Research Group Meeting