2022 Pediatric Cancer Symposium

Register today to attend the 2022 CHRI Pediatric Cancer Research Group (PCRG) Symposium on Wednesday, Aug. 31, at the Truhlsen Event Center on the UNMC Campus. The Symposium can also be attended virtually via Zoom. An interactive poster session and lunch will be available to in-person attendees.

There is no cost to register however, you will be asked during the registration process to indicate if you will be attending in person or virtually.

The morning session of this year’s PCRG Symposium has been programmed for a broad audience interested in recent developments in pediatric cancer research and will feature PCRG member presentations with clinical and epidemiological applications and updates on advocacy efforts.

Keynote speaker Joseph Neglia, M.D., MPH, department head and professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, and CHRI scientific advisory board member, will present “Surviving Childhood Cancer; Advances and Retreats.”

The afternoon sessions will feature scientific updates designed for fellow pediatric researchers from several PCRG members, the PCRG Medulloblastoma collaborative and the PCRG Hematological Malignancies subgroup.

Some of the PCRG members who will present their work throughout the Symposium include:

• Kishore Challagundla, Ph.D., assistant professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC
• Nagendra Chaturvedi, Ph.D., assistant professor, Hematology/Oncology, UNMC
• Sarah Holstein, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Oncology and Hematology, UNMC
• Sutapa Ray, Ph.D., assistant professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, UNMC
• Rebecca Swanson, DNP, APRN, pediatric nurse practitioner, Hematology/Oncology & Stem Transplant, Nebraska Medicine
• Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, Ph.D., professor, Epidemiology, UNMC

Poster Session
The 2022 CHRI PCRG Symposium will include a poster session to allow researchers the opportunity to present recent projects related to pediatric cancer and discuss these findings with attendees. The poster session will feature interactive demonstrations and attendee networking opportunities. Please complete the intake form if you would like to participate in the poster session. Poster Guidelines are available here.

Click here to register for the 2022 PCRG Symposium. Registration is open until Wednesday, Aug. 24.