Black in Cancer Conference: Programme

Black in Cancer conference 2022
 

Monday 10 October

09:15 – 10:30

Registration, networking and poster set-up

10:30 – 10:50

Welcome

Sigourney Bonner, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Black in Cancer Co-founder, UK

Henry Henderson, Medical Science Liaison and Black in Cancer Co-founder, US

10:50 – 11:50

Speed networking session

Henry Henderson, Medical Science Liaison and Black in Cancer Co-founder, US

11:50 – 13:00

What does Black in Cancer mean to you?

In this session you’ll hear from our expert panel on the importance on building and embedding diversity and inclusion across the scientific pipeline. 

Chair: Sigourney Bonner, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Black in Cancer Co-founder, UK

Speakers: Iain Foulkes, Executive Director of Research & Innovation, Cancer Research UK

Naomi Elster, Prostate Cancer Research, UK

Faith Uwadiae, Wellcome Trust, UK

Henry Henderson, Medical Science Liaison and Black in Cancer Co-founder, US 

Kirk Taylor, Merck 

13:00 – 14:00

Networking lunch, poster viewing and exhibition

14:00 – 14:30

Keynote address

Chair: Sigourney Bonner, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Black in Cancer Co-founder 

Dawn Butler MP, UK

14:30 – 16:10

Scientific session - discovery research

Chair: Kilan Ashad-Bishop, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, US

Speakers: Christie Towers, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, CA 

Jaye Gardiner - PostDoc Award Winner 

Jana McHugh, ICR, UK

Dean Fennell, University of Leicester

16:10 – 16:40

Networking break, exhibition and poster viewing

16:40 – 17:50

Scientific session - clinical trials

Chair: Elshaddai White, Medical Science Liaison and Black in Cancer Associate Director of Sponsorships 

Speakers: Onyinye & Fiyinfolu Balogun, The Onc Docs, US 

Brandon Blue, Moffitt Cancer Center, US

Alfred Samuels, patient advocate 

17:50 – 19:00

Networking drinks and poster session

19:15

Conference dinner in the Wonderlab at the Science Museum

 

Tuesday 11 October

08:30 – 09:15

Registration

09:15 – 09:25

Welcome

Chair: Sigourney Bonner, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Black in Cancer Co-founder 

09:25 – 10:05

Keynote address

Ricki Fairley, patient advocate, founder and CEO of Touch, the Black Breast Cancer Alliance 

10:05 – 11:00

Patients are the co-creators of research

Designing cancer research trials with patients at the heart helps to improve recruitment of diverse, representative populations. This is essential to ensure that outcomes of research studies are relevant to all. Hear from patients, practitioners, and members of the Black in Cancer community who are engaging with unheard communities to help deliver research that gets us closer to beating cancer for everyone.    

Chair: Dean Fennell, University of Leicester, UK

Speakers: Leanne Pero, Black Cancer Rising, US

Victoria Ekanoye, Patient advocate, UK

Katie Robb, University of Glasgow, UK  

Tanimola Martins, University of Exeter Medical School and Black in Cancer Co-Director of Cancer Awareness, UK  

11:00 – 11:30

Networking break, exhibition and poster viewing

11:30 – 12:55

Scientific session - translation

Chair: Chris Bourne, Weill Cornell and Sloan Kettering Institute, Black in Cancer Director of Sponsorships, US 

Speakers: Jessica Queen, Johns Hopkins University, US 

Uriah Israel, Post doc award winner 

Tobiloba Oni, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research 

12:55 – 14:10

Networking lunch, poster viewing and exhibition

13:20 – 14:00

Lunchtime roundtable discussion 

This roundtable discussion will look at career opportunities / career pipeline covering research, industry, policy/charity/government, scientific publishing. 

Elizabeth McKenna, Cancer Discoveries AACR 

Nnenna Kanu, UCL

Henry Henderson, Medical Science Liaison and Black in Cancer Co-founder, US 

Tanimola Martins, University of Exeter Medical School and Black in Cancer Co-Director of Cancer Awareness 

14:10 - 14:30

Strengthening the pipeline of Black leaders in cancer research 

This session will showcase exciting and unique mentoring, scholarship and fellowship opportunities that aim to strengthen the careers pipeline for Black researchers in cancer research. It will provide information for how you could apply for, be involved with as mentors or partners, help promote or develop your own schemes from undergraduate to postdoctoral level. 

Chair: Kelvin Jones, Troy University 

Saher Ahmed, Sanger EDI Manager, Sanger Excellence Fellowship 

Silvia Panico, Cancer Research UK 

Seattle Children’s Research Institute 

Black in Cancer

14:30 – 15:35

Future leaders – Proffered Talks

  1. Inhibition of DNAJB1-PRKACA for Fibrolamellar Hepatocellular Carcinoma 

Anna Ampaw, University of Toronto Mississauga 

  1. Exploring hyperlocal relationships between neighbourhood social vulnerability and cancer screening 

Kilan Ashad-Bishop, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center 

  1. Molecular mechanisms of Wnt signalling: reducing complexity 

Michael Ranes, The Institute of Cancer Research 

Future leaders session – Lightning Talks 

  1. Tissue resident T-cell subsets in African Breast Cancer Patients 

Eric Gyan, University of Nottingham 

  1. Towards Early Detection of PDAC: Molecular Imaging of mutant p53 overexpression 

Hudson Alakonya, University of Oxford 

  1. Radiolabelled domain specific anti-HER2 antibody conjugates as breast cancer theranostics

Jessica Pougoue Ketchemen, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 

  1. Apolipoprotein E2 enhances melanoma growth, metastasis, and protein synthesis 

Nneoma Adaku, The Rockefeller University 

15:35 – 16:30

Empowering the next generation - looking forward

This session will reflect on the talks and discussion from the conference, bringing together the ideas and challenges highlighted, and providing different ways for attendees to take this forward through their career and in their organisation. 

Chair: Julia Morris, BIC board 

Kelvin Jones, Troy University 

Jason Mellad, Start Codon 

16:30 – 16:45 Announcement of the Black in Cancer Post Doc Award winner  

16:45

Conference close