PROGRAM AGENDA Day 1 – Monday, May 12th, 2025 SRB Ted Couch Auditorium 4:00-5:00 PM
Moffitt Researcher of the Year lecture: Frederick Locke, MD
5:00-6:00 PM
Reception in SRB Atrium
Day 2 – Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 USF Marshall Student Center 8:00-9:00 AM
Registration, Breakfast & Poster Viewing in the Ballroom
9:00-9:10 AM
Welcome, Dr. Patrick Hwu, President, and CEO (Oval Theater)
9:10-9:50 AM
Featured Poster Presentations - Session I (Oval Theater) Moderator: Dr. Heather Owens Rojan Chimeh Rad (Gomes) “Aging drives TNBC lung metastasis dependency on FGFR-triggered metabolic reprogramming exposing an age-induced liability with therapeutic potential” Dr. Paige Aiello (Lee) “The Significance of Micrometastatic Axillary Disease after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer” Dr. Evan Davis (Permuth) “Applying Large Language Models for Clinical Data Abstraction in Patients with Pancreatic Tumors” Dr. M A Masud (Anderson) “The role of tissue homeostasis in regulating basal cell carcinoma growth dynamics” Dr. Jeremy Frieling (Lynch) “Defining immune – stromal cell crosstalk during γδ CAR-T targeting of bone metastatic prostate tumors” Dr. Michelle Dugan (Zager) “A Comparison of Isolated Limb Infusion/Perfusion, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, and Intralesional Therapy as First-Line Treatment for Patients with Melanoma In-Transit Metastases” Dr. Charles Hoogland (D. Vidrine, J. Vidrine) “Baseline Sociodemographic, Smoking-Related, and Psychosocial Characteristics of Participants Recruited In-person vs. Online to a Smoking Cessation RCT Targeting People with Food Insecurity” Dr. Larissa Carvalho (K. Smalley “Defining the anti-tumor activity and immune affects of the RASMULTI(ON) inhibitor RMC-7977 in preclinical models of NRAS-mutant melanoma”
9:50-10:25 AM
Featured Poster Presentations - Session II (Oval Theater) Moderator: Dr. Mitchell Hayes Dr. Victor Gazivoda (Pimiento) “Prophylactic Robotic Assisted Total Gastrectomy is a safe practice in patients with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer ” Dr. Thales Nepomuceno (Monteiro) “CDK9 promotes DNA repair independently of its role in transcription”