Keynote Speakers

Rakesh Jain, PhD

Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University
Keynote Speaker

Dr. Jain is a renowned world expert in understanding how changes in the microenvironment that surrounds tumors affect the immune system, drug delivery, treatment efficacy, and patient survival. Dr. Jain discovered the theory that an imbalance of vessel growth in tumors resulted in leaky blood vessels that caused edema, lack of oxygen and immunosuppression.

Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD

University of Michigan
Keynote Speaker

A leading figure in cancer research, Dr. Chinnaiyan demonstrated the presence of chromosomal rearrangements in solid tumors previously thought to only occur in blood malignancies and has made seminal contributions to precision oncology. He has made a significant impact on the understanding of the mechanisms of apoptosis, contributing to the identification and cloning of key mediators in the programmed cell death cascade including Fas-associated protein with death domain (FADD), FLICE/Caspase-8 and Death Receptor-3 (DR-3).