CCS Monthly Seminar Series

Hosted by the Education Committee

Recordings are available on this public page for about one month.


Next up: November 13, 2024 at 12:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM CET

Cancer Cachexia Clinical Trial Design

Professor Barry J A Laird
Chair of Palliative and Supportive Care Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh
Professor Richard Skipworth
Clinical Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh

The speakers will discuss recent clinical trials, focusing on essential methodological aspects that enhance research quality. They will also provide an overview of ongoing work related to cancer cachexia endpoints, emphasizing their significance in improving patient care and treatment outcomes.

To join us please REGISTER in advance via the following Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5V5jefrsSQ6e_Ydd8qwUKQ

 


 

 

October 9, 2024

 

Mauricio Berriel Diaz, PhD
Deputy Director, Institute for Diabetes & Cancer, Head of Division Metabolism and Cancer, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany

Genomic liver profiling identifies REV-ERB alpha-regulated hepatokines promoting tissue wasting in cancer cachexia


 

September 18, 2024

CCS Trainee Talks

Pauline Morigny, Ph.D.
Institute for Diabetes and Cancer, Helmholtz Munich, Germany
Contribution of liver-derived ceramides to cancer cachexia

Parham Diba
Oregon Health and Science University, USA
Decoding cardiac immune response in pancreatic cancer cachexia

Yan Sun, Ph.D.
Fac. Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Surgery University of Maastricht, Netherlands
Body composition and immunotherapy in cancer cachexia

 


June 12, 2024

Abigail Newell, PhD
Cancer Support Community, Washington DC, USA

Developing a Cancer Cachexia Lexicon

 


May 15, 2024

Dr. Anne-Catherine Maurin, PhD
Proteostasis team, Human Nutrition Unit, INRAE/Clermont-Auvergne University, France

Permission to provide the recording was not provided. 


April 17, 2024

Trainee Talks + Introduction of the "Women in Cachexia" Initiative

Introduction of the "Women in Cachexia" Initiative
Brittany Counts, PhD and Aneesha Dasgupta, PhD

Trainee Talks

Sarah Santiloni Cury, PhD
Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biosciences São Paulo State University (UNESP) - Botucatu, Brazil
The Human Cancer Secretome at Single-cell Resolution: Exploring Applications in Cancer Cachexia

Kandy T. Velazquez, MS, PhD
School of Medicine Columbia University of South Carolina
Exploring the Impact of the Immune System on Cancer Cachexia

 


February 14, 2024

Sarah H. Lockie, PhD
Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Australia

Interrogating the Ghrelin-AgRP system in the KPC mouse model

 


December 20, 2023

Tobias Janowitz, MD, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Northwell Health Cancer Institute, USA

Permission to provide the recording was not provided. 


November 8, 2023

4th Trainee Talks

  • Deena Snoke, PhD
    Vermont Lung Center Laboratory of Dr. Michael J. Toth, University of Vermont College of Medicine 
    Twitter: @snoke_phd
    Adipose wasting is an early event in a novel model of lung cancer cachexia
  • Luca Delfinis
    York University, School of Kinesiology & Health Science 
    Twitter: @DelfinisLuca
    Muscle weakness precedes atrophy in a mouse model of cancer cachexia and is linked to muscle-specific mitochondrial stress
  • Andrea Irazoki, PhD
    Department of Biomedical Sciences (BMI), University of Copenhagen, Denmark 
    Twitter: @A_Irazoki
    Effects of housing temperature in cancer cachexia

Only the first 2 speakers provided permission to post their recording.

 


October 18, 2023

Prof. Katrien De Bock, PhD
ETH Zurich (Department of Health Sciences and Technology), Switzerland

Endothelial metabolism in muscle