Keynote Speakers

  • Nima Aghaeepour
    Topic: Multiomics Deep-profiling of the Immune System in Clinical Settings
    Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA.
  • Bertram Bengsch
    Topic: Deep immune profiling of exhausted T cells
    MD, PhD; Group leader, Department of Internal Medicine II, University Medical Center Freiburg (Prof. R. Thimme)
  • Frederic Biemar

    AACR, International Affairs Office (Executive Director)
  • LÁSZLÓ G. BOROS
    Topic: Medicinal stable isotope chemistry through the work of Dr. Wai-Nang Paul Lee
    Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Petter Brodin
    Topic: Systems-level immune monitoring in human cancer patients
    Assoc. Professor of Immunology, Dept. of Women’s & Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet. Director, SciLifeLab National Mass cytometry Facility, Stockholm. Assistant professor, SciLifeLab, Dept. of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet. Resident in Pediatrics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm.
  • Caroline Charky
    Topic: Application of 3-color Crystal Digital PCR systems in cancer: Characterizing CNV, Indels and Mutation linkage
    Director Business Development of Stilla Technologies • 15-years’ experience in Life Sciences start-ups in North America and Europe (Qiagen, Bio-K+, Nextal Biotechnologies). • Joined Stilla in 2016 convinced that a well designed product, a booming market and a great team are Stilla’s ingredients for commercial success. • Graduated from HEC Montreal (MSc in Management in Technological Entrepreneurship).
  • Guoqiang Chen
    Speech
    Professor, Academician Chinese Academy of Sciences，President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
  • Jinfei Chen
    Topic: Molecular typing of gastric cancer
    Professor, Director Nanjing First Hospital Cancer Internal Medicine
  • Jinke Cheng
    Chair
    Professor, Dean, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
  • Xiaoying Chu

    AAAS/Science, Director, Global Collaboration & Partner Publishing
  • Yu Cui
    Topic: The Application of NGS in Immuno-therapy Research
    Application Scientist of Thermo Fisher Scientific Ph. D, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Fangping Dai
    Topic: Genomic characteristics Analysis of advanced tumors patients and their guiding role in clinical diagnosis and treatment
    Chairman of The Genome Decoding of Jiangsu
  • Lijun Di
    Topic: CtBP promotes metastasis of Breast cancer through repressing Cholesterol and activating TGF-b signaling
    Professor, College of Health Sciences, University of Macau
  • Jianqing Ding
    Chair
    Professor, Director, Research Department, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University
  • Xianting Ding
    Topic: Precision Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics Based on Trace Clinical Samples
    Research Fellow, Shanghai Jiaotong University Institute of Personalized Medicine / School of Biomedical Engineering
  • Chenfang Dong
    Topic: Reprogamming of lipid metabolism in tumor-associated macrophage
    Professor, Zhejiang University
  • Zhongjun Dong
    Topic: Energy metabolism regulation in anti-tumor natural immunity NK cell development and activation
    Research Fellow, Tsinghua University School of Medicine / Institute of Immunology
  • Melissa Hsu

    AACR, International Program Director in Asia
  • Teresa Fan
    Topic: Exploring human tumor and immune metabolism in situ & in preclinical models using Stable Isotope –Resolved Metabolomics (SIRM)
    Professor, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, USA
  • Daming Gao
    Topic: mTOR sensitizes genome to growth signal
    Research Fellow, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Dong Gao
    Topic: Patients derived organoids and prostate cancer targeted therapy
    Researcher, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Ping Gao
    Topic: CUEDC2 regulates GLUT3 and LDHA to facilitate Warbutg effects and tumorigenesis
    Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Vay Liang W. Go
    Topic：The Interrelationship of pancreatic cancer with diabetes, pancreatitis, and obesity
    Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Jihui Hao
    Topic: Accurate treatment for pancreatic cancer
    Professor, Associate Dean Tianjin Medical University Affiliated Tumor Hospital
  • Ahvie Herskowitz
    Topic: Earliest Detection of Cancer by Circulating Tumor Cells Without Anatomic Evidence of Lesions. A Comprehensive and Integrative Approach Towards Cure
    MD., President, American College for Advancement in Medicine (ACAM), Clinical Professor of Medicine, UC San Francisco
  • Agi Hirshberg

    Executive President and Executive Chairman of American Pancreatic Cancer Foundation
  • Guohong Hu
    Topic: The mechanism of Specific organ regulation in breast cancer metastasis
    Researcher, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Academy of Life Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Hai Hu
    Topic: New ideas of targeting ribose metabolism for tumors treatment
    Professor, Deputy Director, Department of Oncology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Shen Hu
    Topic: TBD
    Dr. Hu is a Professor and the MS Program Advisor in the Division of Oral Biology and Medicine at the UCLA School of Dentistry
  • Zeping Hu
    Topic: Research for Metabolome analysis and disease metabolism
    Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University
  • Zhibin Hu
    Topic: CT gene MEIOB and triple negative breast cancer
    Professor, Vice President Nanjing Medical University
  • Gang Huang
    Chair
    Professor, Dean Shanghai Health Medical College
  • Qian Huang
    Chair
    Professor, Director Central Laboratory, First People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University
  • Peng Jiang
    Topic: Role of P53 in cancer cell metabolism
    Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University
  • Yuhui Jiang
    Topic: The role of metabolic enzymes in the regulation of epigenetic modification in the development of pancreatic cancer
    Researcher, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
  • Tomoaki Kato
    Topic: Bi-directional immune cell interaction and tolerance in multivisceral transplantation
    Professor of Surgery; Chief, Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation of Columbia University Medical Center
  • Hsing-Jien Kung
    Topic: Targeting arginine-addiction and autophagy in cancers
    Chair Professor，Taipei Medical University Distinguished Professor，UC Davis
  • Fei Lan
    Topic: Non-histone methyltransferase SMYD5 regulates glycolysis
    Researcher, Deputy Director of Genetics Committee of Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Fudan University
  • Wai-Nang Paul Lee

    Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Qunying Lei
    Topic: Nuclear Lactate Dehydrogenase A Senses ROS to Produce α-Hydroxybutyrate for HPV-Induced Cervical Tumor Growth
    Professor, Fudan University Institute of Biomedical Sciences
  • Bin Li
    Topic: FOXP3+ Treg functional stability in anti-tumor immune therapy
    Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
  • Jin Li
    Topic: TBD
    Professor, Director Shanghai Oriental Hospital (Eastern Hospital, Tongji University) Department of Oncology
  • Peng Li
    Topic:TBD
    Professor, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars
  • Yongsheng Li
    Topic: Reprogramming of lipid metabolism in tumor-associated macrophages
    Professor, Institute of Cancer, Xinqiao Hospital, The Third Military Medical University (Army Medical University)
  • Zonghai Li
    Topic: CAR-T cell therapy for solid tumors
    Professor, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine
  • Yong Liao
    Chair
    Professor, Chongqing Medical University
  • Dongxin Lin
    Topic: TBD
    Professor, Academician Chinese Academy of Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
  • Shengcai Lin
    Topic: TBD
    Professor, College of Life Sciences, Xiamen University
  • Mingyao Liu
    Topic: G-protein coupled receptors and gene editing: from tumor microenvironment to immuno-cell therapy
    Professor, Dean School of Life Science, East China Normal University
  • Qiang Liu
    Topic: Chronic stress activates LDHA to reprogram
    Professor, Dalian Medical University
  • Xuefeng Liu
    Topic: Functional Patient-Derived Cell Models for Cancer Precision Medicine
    Professor, Department of Pathology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, USA
  • Yilun Liu
    Topic: Cancer etiology of the RECQ4 disease mutations
    Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Department of Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope
  • Yong Liu
    Topic: The ER stress response signaling in metabolic inflammation and cancer
    Professor, Wuhan University
  • Bin Lu
    Topic: N-Glycosylation Stabilizing Mer Tyrosine Kinase to Promote Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Proliferation and Tumor Growth via Regulating the Warburg Effect
    Researcher, Wenzhou Medical University School of Medicine
  • Zhimin (James) Lu
    Topic: New research in tumor metabolism
    Professor, Department of Neurology, Anderson Cancer Research Center, USA
  • Gerry Melino

    Professor, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy; Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the
  • Jun Mi
    Chair
    Professor, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University
  • Bill Moran

    AAAS/SCIENCE, Publisher, Science Family of Journals
  • David Michael Nanus
    Topic: 1.Geometric Uncertainties in prostate cancer；2.Circulating tumor cell
    Mark W. Pasmantier Professor of Hematology and Oncology in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, Attending Physician of New York-Presbyterian Hospital
  • Yueyin Pan
    Chair
    Professor, Chief Physician, Department of Oncology, Anhui Province Hospital
  • Xiaojun Peng
    Topic: Dye-inhibitor Conjugate: from Fluorescence Imaging to Photo-theranostics
    Professor, Academician Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian University of Technology
  • Jun Qin
    Topic: Proteomic driven precision medicine
    Professor, State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine
  • Guoliang Qing
    Topic: Deregulation of mRNA splicing in Metabolic reprogramming and T cell leukemogenesis
    Professor, Wuhan University
  • Jianyu-Rao
    Topic: Liquid biopsy for cancer diagnosis: hype or hope
    Professor and the chief of Cytopathology, ex-director of gynecological pathology, the director of international telepathology, and the medical director of UCLA .
  • Will Schweitzer

    Director, American AAAS/ Science Product and Custom Publishing
  • Yongqian Shu
    Topic: Progress in precision immunotherapy for gallbladder cancer
    Professor, Director of Cancer Center, Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital
  • Erwei Song
    Topic: Treat the cancer soil: turn foes into friends
    Professor, Dean of Sun Yat-sen University Zhongshan Medical College
  • Huiru Tang
    Topic: Reverse the TKI-Resistance of Lung Cancer by Metabolic Reprogramming
    Professor, Fudan University School of Life Sciences
  • Jie Tian
    Topic: Quantitative evaluation and clinical application of intraoperative visual navigation and artificial intelligence based on molecular imaging
    Professor, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • George X. Wang
    Topic: Toward Precision Medicine: From Diagnosis to Target Therapy
    Ph.D., Professor，Michigan University
  • Hongxia Wang
    Chair
    Professor, Director Shanghai Jiao Tong University First People's Hospital
  • Hongyang Wang
    Speech
    Professor, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Shanghai Oriental Hepatobiliary Hospital
  • Jianhua Wang
    Topic: HIC1 deletion-mediated crosstalk between cancer cells and mammary fibroblasts promotes breast cancer progression
    Professor, Fudan University Cancer Hospital
  • Ping Wang
    Topic: TBD
    Professor, Tongji University
  • Ruian Wang
    Chair
    Professor, Fourth Military Medical University
  • Xiangdong Wang
    Topic: Cyclic lipidomics phenotype study of clinical lung cancer
    Professor, Dean Clinical Research Institute of Zhongshan Hospital
  • Xingpeng Wang
    Speech
    Professor, Director of Shanghai Hospital Development Center; Dean, Shanghai First People's Hospital
  • Jason Wright
    Topic: TBD
    Jason Wright MD is the Sol Goldman Associate Professor, Chief of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York Presbyterian Hospital.
  • Duojiao Wu
    Topic: Metabolic reprogramming of T cell exhaustion and anti-tumor immunity
    Associate Professor, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University
  • Gary Xiao
    Topic: Use of metabolic flux analysis to discern molecular mechanisms of OLA1-mediated drug resistance of pancreatic cancer
    Professor, Dalian University of Technology
  • Dan Xie
    Chair
    Professor, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Hospital
  • Jinliang Xing
    Topic: Mitochondrial dysfunction and tumor prevention research
    Professor, State Key Laboratory of Tumor Biology, Air Force Military Medical University, PI
  • Feng Xu
    Topic:High throughput sequencing data analysis of tumor gene detection and Precision medicine
    Guangdong Hybribio Biotechnology Co., Ltd.
  • Guowang Xu
    Topic: Metabolomics for the discovery of early markers in liver cancer and related mechanisms
    Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Guang Yang
    Topic: Selection and optimization of recombinant antibody targeting CXCR2 , a GPCR that involves in inflammation and cancer metastasis
    Professor, Immunochemical Studies Institute of ShanghaiTech University
  • Weiwei Yang
    Topic: Tumor metabolism reprogramming regulated by macrophages
    Researcher, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Research, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yi Yang
    Topic: Tumor single-cell metabolism analysis and imaging based on molecular probe
    Professor of Yangtze River Scholarship, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology
  • Dingwei Ye
    Chair
    Professor, Associate Dean of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Director of Urology
  • Qinong Ye
    Topic: Six1 is a key transcription factor for the regulation of tumor glucose metabolism
    Professor, Academy of Military Medical Sciences
  • Yi Wen
    Topic: Protein glycosylation as a key regulator of cancer metabolism and cell growth
    Professor, Zhejiang University
  • Qimin Zhan
    Topic: TBD
    Professor, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director of the Department of Medicine, Peking University
  • Huafeng Zhang
    Topic:Tumor cell metabolism and epigenetic regulation
    Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
  • Taiping Zhang
    Topic: Pancreatic cancer immunotherapy
    Professor, Deputy Director Beijing Union Medical College Hospital Basic Surgery
  • Zhigang Zhang
    Topic: Neuroendocrine regulates tumor microenvironment and metabolism
    Researcher, Shanghai Cancer Research Institute
  • Shimin Zhao
    Topic: TBD
    Professor, Fudan University, Ministry of Education, Changjiang Scholar
  • Jianghua Zheng
    Topic: Principle of DNA methylation and clinical implications for cancer
    Professor, Fudan University
  • Junhua Zheng
    Chair
    Professor, Deputy Dean Shanghai Jiao Tong University First People's Hospital
  • Mengtao Zhou
    Chair
    Professor, Dean, First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University
  • Wei-Xing Zong
    Topic: Cancers care about nitrogen: the other side of glutamine metabolism
    Professor, Department of Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey; Co-Leader, Cancer Metabolism and Growth Program, Rutgers Cancer Center of New Jersey (CINJ)
  • Qiang Zou
    Topic: Metabolic control of Treg stability and function in antitumor immunity
    Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine