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March 11, 2024

Dr. Laura Shawver to be Recognized as 2024 Duane Roth Endowed Award Lecture Recipient at 20th Annual Industry/Academia Precision Oncology Symposium

The Duane Roth Endowed Lecture Committee today announced that it will recognize Laura Shawver, Ph.D., as the 2024 Award Lecture recipient. The award will be presented by San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria during the 20th Annual Industry/Academia Precision Oncology Symposium on March 21 in La Jolla, California.

April 20, 2023

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center 19th Industry/Academia Next-Generation Precision Oncology Symposium to be held on April 27

As part of the event, Napoleone Ferrara, MD, Distinguished Professor, Senior Deputy Director for Basic Sciences, Moores Cancer Center, will be honored as the 2023 Duane Roth Achievement Award recipient. Dr. Ferrara is being recognized for leading advances in the development of bevacizumab (Avastin®) during his time at Genentech and will deliver a lecture titled, “Tumor Angiogenesis from Discovery to Therapy.” In addition, the Symposium’s keynote speaker will be Levi Garraway, MD, PhD, Head of Product Development and Chief Medical Officer of Roche. Dr. Garraway, who previously was a co-founder of Foundation Medicine, will present about “Frontiers of Therapeutic Development.” The Symposium will also feature an honorable guest speaker, Waseem Qasim, MBBS, PhD, Professor of Cell & Gene Therapy for Institute of Child Health, UCL. Dr. Qasim will present about “Translational base editing for T cell immunotherapy.”

2024 Symposium

The 20th Annual Industry/Academia Precision Oncology Symposium will be held on Thursday, March 21, 2024.

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2023 Symposium

The 19th Industry/Academia "Next Generation Precision Oncology" Symposium was held on Thursday, April 20, 2023.

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2022 Symposium

The 18th Industry/Academia "Next Generation Precision Oncology" Symposium was held on Thursday, September 15, 2022. Thank you all for a successful event! See more on our 2022 Symposium page.

Featured Symposium Highlights

Featured past Symposium presentations are below and located here.

2018 Keynote Presentation: Duane Roth Award Lecture
Engineering T-Cells: The Sky is the Limit

Carl June, MD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

2018 Keynote Presentation:
A New Model for Translational Research in the Nonprofit Sector

Peter Schultz, PhD
California Institute for Biomedical Research

2018 Welcome Remarks

Ida Deichaite, PhD, Symposium Organizer, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
Pradeep Khosla, PhD, Chancellor, UC San Diego

Visit our Symposium page for more Symposium Featured Talks.

2015 Symposium Slideshow from MCC Industry Relations on Vimeo.

Thank you to all that came and participated in the 2015 Symposium - we hope you enjoy the memories!

San Diego ABC 10 News reporter Michael Chen interviewed San Diego resident Heather Clark, a patient of Moores Cancer Center, along with Ida Deichaite, Director of Industry Relations & Symposium Organizer, in a video report about the I-SPY Clinical Trial and Symposium. The I-SPY Clinical Trial is lead by 2014 Symposium Keynote Speaker and Principle Investigator Laura Esserman, MD, MBA.

Xconomy’s San Diego Life Sciences Roundup included Bob Klein’s Proposal presented at the Moores Cancer Center Symposium, outlining the $5 billion ballot initiative for funding California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in 2016.
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Xconomy's San Diego Life Sciences Roundup also included the Moores Cancer Center Symposium and Laura Esserman's acceptance of the Duane Roth Award.
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The San Diego Daily Transcript published an article about Dr. Esserman's acceptance of the Duane Roth Award and the Symposium.
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The San Diego Union Tribune wrote an article on the Symposium, namely the iSPY Trial and patient from the trial, San Diego Resident Heather Clark.
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Symposium Speaker Bob Klein was featured in a San Diego Union Tribune article, outlining the $5 billion ballot initiative for funding California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in 2016, presented at the Moores Cancer Center Symposium.
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9th Symposium Featured on San Diego ABC 10 News

Michael Chen from San Diego ABC 10 News covering the 9th MCC Industry/Academia Translational Oncology Symposium - 4/11/13 6PM from MCC Industry Relations on Vimeo.

San Diego ABC 10 News reporter Michael Chen interviewed San Diego resident Linda Lowe, a patient of Moores Cancer Center Investigator Dr. Catriona Jamieson, along with Moores Cancer Center Director of Industry Relations Ida Deichaite, PhD , in a video report from the 6PM News on April 11 covering the successful 9th Industry/Academia Translational Oncology Symposium.