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Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 Location: The Morris Inn Join us for the 13th Annual Cancer Research Day with the Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI)! This exciting event highlights the groundbreaking, multidisciplinary cancer research happening at HCRI. Enjoy engaging poster sessions, insightful oral presentations, an inspiring keynote address, and the opportunity to celebrate excellence with awards. We look forward to seeing you there! This event is free and open to the public. We do ask that you register for the event. REGISTER HERE |
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Agenda:
• Poster Session: 9 AM - 1 PM
• Oral Presentations: 1 PM - 3 PM
• Faculty Presentations: 3 PM - 4:30 PM
• Keynote Session and Awards: 4:30 PM - 6 PM
• Reception: 6 PM - 7:30 PM
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
HCRI invites you to submit research abstracts for poster and oral presentation sessions. Oral presenters will be selected from submitted abstracts, and prizes will be awarded for outstanding posters. To participate, please submit your abstract via the SUBMIT ABSTRACT button below by 11:59 pm on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
Prizes:
- All abstracts selected for an oral presentation will automatically receive a $400 travel grant.
- First place posters will receive a $400 travel grant.
- Second place posters will receive a $300 travel grant.
- Third place posters will receive a $250 travel grant.
NEW THIS YEAR: Harper will cover the cost of printing all posters submitted by 11:59 pm on Monday, April 7, 2025. Posters not uploaded by this date and time will not be included in the final print order, and presenters will be responsible for their own printing. Please follow this naming convention for the poster file name: Presenter's Last Name, Presenter's First Name_PI's Last Name - 2025 HCRI CRD.
NOMINATIONS FOR EXCEPTIONAL TRAINEE AWARDS
Graduate students and postdoctoral trainees at the Harper Cancer Research Institute are renowned for their excellence. HCRI will honor these outstanding trainees with awards during Cancer Research Day.
The deadline for nominations is 11:59 pm on Friday, March 14, 2025.
Awards Available for Nominations
Exceptional Mentor: Awarded to the trainee for their exceptional leadership in mentoring others.
Exceptional Team Science: Awarded to the trainee who best exemplifies HCRI's foundation in interdisciplinary research through their commitment to collaboration.
Eligibility
- Anyone affiliated with an HCRI lab can submit nominations for these awards.
- There is no limit to the number of nominations an individual can make.
- All graduate students or postdoctoral trainees affiliated with HCRI are eligible for nomination.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rohit Bhargava, Ph.D.
Keynote: “Engineering microscopy for cancer imaging: from making tumor models to improved clinical diagnoses”
Rohit Bhargava serves as the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with academic appointments as the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering.
His contributions to theory, instrumentation and applications have helped develop the field of infrared chemical imaging since its inception. Current research focuses on the applications of chemical imaging to histopathology and to quantitative cell biology. Using a combination of advanced manufacturing techniques, novel imaging and artificial intelligence, another major direction in his laboratories is to advance production of designer tumor models. His research is supported by the NIH, NSF, DoD, ARPA-H, Chan-Zuckerburg Biohub and Mayo Clinic.
Rohit has also served to connect the research community in new directions. He was the first external hire in the UIUC Bioengineering department, developed the NIH T32-supported Microenvironment Training Program, and founded the Cancer Center at Illinois - a basic cancer center at the convergence of engineering and oncology. He is a proponent of the emerging field of Cancer Engineering.
Originally published at harpercancer.nd.edu.