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Jeffrey M. Trent Lectureship in Cancer Research Series

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Jeffrey M. Trent, Ph.D., F.A.C.M.G, was the National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) founding scientific director, serving in this role for more than nine years. His leadership and vision were instrumental in establishing NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research as one of the premier research programs in the world devoted to genetics and genomics. In recognition of his significant contributions to the research environment at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NHGRI established the annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research in 2003. This lecture is given by a prominent cancer researcher who brings the kind of energy, creativity and enthusiasm to cancer research that Dr. Trent has exemplified throughout his career. 

Hybrid: Zoom Webinar (Requires Registrations) and Building 35A

 

35A Convent Dr,
Room 620/630
Bethesda, MD 20814

2024

December 11, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET

Tip to Tail: Genetics of Cancer and Morphology in the Domestic Dog

Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D.
Chief and Distinguished Investigator
Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch

The domestication of dogs from wolves is, arguably, the most successful scientific experiment undertaken in human history. Our planet is populated with millions of dogs representing 350 breeds, village dogs, feral dogs and mixed breed dogs. Key to understanding canine variation is the study of modern and ancient genomes sampled from dogs around the world. Our studies encompass evolution, genomics and genetics, as we seek to understand how dog breeds have been shaped by humans, why some breeds are prone to specific diseases, and what accounts for the striking differences in appearance and behavior observed between breeds. By studying the genome sequence of modern and ancient dogs we show that most breed-associated traits,  including disease associations, are controlled by small numbers of genes of large effect, and that most of these genes are relevant for studies of human health and biology. 
 

Elaine Ostrander

2023

November 13, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET

Todd Golub, M.D., director and a founding core member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, will present the lecture, Perspectives on Cancer Precision Medicine. Dr. Golub is a world leader in using genomics tools to understand the basis of cancer. He also pioneered the development of new cell-based approaches to drug discovery for cancer and other diseases.

Golub is also the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Association for Cancer Research, the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, and the Daland Prize from the American Philosophical Society. In 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

 

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2021

December 9, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Eastern

Sharon E. Plon, M.D., Ph.D., professor at the Departments of Pediatrics/Hematology-Oncology, Molecular and Human Genetics, Human Genome Sequencing Center at the Baylor College of Medicine, delivered the lecture Evolution of Germline Cancer Genomics from Rare Disorders to Precision Oncology Trials.

 

  • 2021

    December 9, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Eastern

    Sharon E. Plon, M.D., Ph.D., professor at the Departments of Pediatrics/Hematology-Oncology, Molecular and Human Genetics, Human Genome Sequencing Center at the Baylor College of Medicine, delivered the lecture Evolution of Germline Cancer Genomics from Rare Disorders to Precision Oncology Trials.

     

2019

The National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research presented the 15th Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research on June 14, 2019, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., at the Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10 (Clinical Center), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus. Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington delivered the lecture New Frontiers in Genomics.

 

  • 2019

    The National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research presented the 15th Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research on June 14, 2019, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m., at the Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10 (Clinical Center), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus. Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington delivered the lecture New Frontiers in Genomics.

     

2018

The National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research presented the 14th Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research on March 15, 2018, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., at the Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10 (Clinical Center), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus. Joan Brugge, Ph.D., co-director, Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School, will deliver the lecture Role of the TRPA1 Ca2+-permeable Channel in Oxidative Stress Defenses in Cancer.

  • 2018

    The National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research presented the 14th Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research on March 15, 2018, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., at the Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10 (Clinical Center), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus. Joan Brugge, Ph.D., co-director, Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School, will deliver the lecture Role of the TRPA1 Ca2+-permeable Channel in Oxidative Stress Defenses in Cancer.

2017

The National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research will present the 13th Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, at the Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10 (Clinical Center), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus. Katherine A. Janeway, M.D., MMSc, the clinical director of the Solid Tumor Program for the Dana Farber-Boston/Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, will deliver the lecture Bringing Genomics to the Pediatric Oncology Clinic: Diagnosis, Treatment Selection and Rational Clinical Trial Design.

  • 2017

    The National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research will present the 13th Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, at the Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10 (Clinical Center), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus. Katherine A. Janeway, M.D., MMSc, the clinical director of the Solid Tumor Program for the Dana Farber-Boston/Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, will deliver the lecture Bringing Genomics to the Pediatric Oncology Clinic: Diagnosis, Treatment Selection and Rational Clinical Trial Design.

2016

The National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research will present the 12th Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, at the Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10 (Clinical Center), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus. John D. Carpten, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Translational Genomics and director of the Institute of Translational Genomics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, will deliver the lecture.

  • 2016

    The National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research will present the 12th Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4, 2016, at the Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10 (Clinical Center), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus. John D. Carpten, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Translational Genomics and director of the Institute of Translational Genomics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, will deliver the lecture.

2015

The National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research presented the 11th Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 11, 2015, at the Masur Auditorium, Building 10 (Clinical Center), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus. Stephen J. Chanock, M.D., director of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, part of NIH, delivered the lecture on the genetic susceptibility to cancer.

  • 2015

    The National Human Genome Research Institute's Division of Intramural Research presented the 11th Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 11, 2015, at the Masur Auditorium, Building 10 (Clinical Center), on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bethesda campus. Stephen J. Chanock, M.D., director of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, part of NIH, delivered the lecture on the genetic susceptibility to cancer.

2009

The seventh annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research - Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction - will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 from 1 to 2 p.m. This year's lecture will be given by Carol Greider, Ph.D., Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. The lecture will take place in the Masur Auditorium (with live feed overflow in Lipsett Amphitheatre), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, Building 10 on the NIH campus.

  • 2009

    The seventh annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research - Telomerase and the Consequences of Telomere Dysfunction - will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 from 1 to 2 p.m. This year's lecture will be given by Carol Greider, Ph.D., Daniel Nathans Professor and Director, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. The lecture will take place in the Masur Auditorium (with live feed overflow in Lipsett Amphitheatre), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, Building 10 on the NIH campus.

2007

The fifth annual Jeffrey M.Trent Lecture in Cancer Research was held on Tuesday, October 16, 2007. Presented by Eric S. Lander, Ph.D., founding director of the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, the lecture was presented at Masur Auditorium, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, Building 10 on the NIH campus.


  • 2007

    The fifth annual Jeffrey M.Trent Lecture in Cancer Research was held on Tuesday, October 16, 2007. Presented by Eric S. Lander, Ph.D., founding director of the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, the lecture was presented at Masur Auditorium, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, Building 10 on the NIH campus.


About Jeffrey Trent

Jeffrey Trent Jeffrey M. Trent, Ph.D., F.A.C.M.G, was the National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) founding scientific director, serving in this role for more than nine years. His leadership and vision were instrumental in establishing NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research as one of the premier research programs in the world devoted to genetics and genomics. In recognition of his significant contributions to the research environment at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), NHGRI established the annual Jeffrey M. Trent Lecture in Cancer Research in 2003. This lecture is given by a prominent cancer researcher who brings the kind of energy, creativity and enthusiasm to cancer research that Dr. Trent has exemplified throughout his career. 

Dr. Trent received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University, Bloomington, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in genetics from the University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to joining NHGRI, he was the Emanuel N. Maisel Professor of Oncology and Professor of Radiation Oncology and Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also served as director of the Division of Cancer Biology, and director of basic sciences at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 1993, Dr. Trent came to NIH with Dr. Francis Collins to establish and direct its newly formed Division of Intramural Research. Following his departure from NHGRI, Dr. Trent became the founding president and research director of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix. 

Dr. Trent's research has provided important insights into the genetic basis of cancer. He is the author of more than 350 manuscripts in the scientific literature, numerous book chapters, invited reviews, and has given hundreds of invited lectures. He has received numerous honors and awards, and has sat on the editorial boards of a dozen scientific publications. He specializes in developing and integrating novel "omic" technologies, in support of clinical decision support in oncology patients. 

Dr. Trent continues to lead studies of the genetic basis of various complex diseases in humans, as well as leading TGen's canine hereditary cancer program.

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Monica Berger
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Last updated: October 16, 2024