2026 NCI–UMD Partnership Symposium
Please register at the 2026 NCI–UMD Partnership Symposium Registration and consider submitting a proposal for seed funding through ipst.umd.edu/research/nci/seed-funding .
Friday, May 1 — A. James Clark Hall, 1101 A/B Forum — University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
| 12:00 pm | Registration and sandwich lunch for registered attendees |
| 12:20–2:00 pm | Session 1 Chair: Wolfgang Losert |
| 12:20 pm | Welcome — NCI and UMD |
| 12:30 pm | Panel — Partnership Highlights: Voula Mili and Doron Levy Roundtable discussion and Q&A with Dr. Arpita Upadhyaya, Dr. Pratyush Tiwary, and partnership students |
| 1:00 pm | Kolmogorov, Mikhail, NCI/CCR Long-read sequencing of single cell-derived melanoma subclones reveals divergent and parallel genomic and epigenomic evolutionary trajectories |
| 1:20 pm | Xu, Alexander, UMD Therapy Candidates and CAR-T Engineering Using Spatial Data |
| 1:30 pm | Givpoor, Nikka, UMD 3D niche-in-a-dish platform and parallel 2D models to investigate pericyte-tumor cell crosstalk |
| 1:40 pm | Banday, Rouf, NCI/CCR Mechanisms of tumor adaptation: From mutational processes to immune evasion |
| 2:00–2:30 pm | Posters and Refreshments |
| 2:30–4:00 pm | Session 2 Chair: Giuliano Scarcelli |
| 2:30 pm | Weigert, Roberto, NCI/CCR Intravital microscopy across the scales: from organs to cells, subcellular structures, and single molecules |
| 2:50 pm | Fernandes, Rohan, UMD Prussian blue nanoimmunotherapies for cancer |
| 3:10 pm | Jiang, Peng, NCI/CCR Data-driven discovery of secreted proteins as cancer immunotherapies |
| 3:30 pm | End |
Parking: Please park in the Regents Drive Garage: https://transportation.umd.edu/parking/visitors
Contact: 301-405-0629, Wolfgang Losert, Partnership Co-Director; or 301-405-4899, Catha Stewart, Coordinator
Co-Leads: NCI: Voula Mili, Mikhail Kolmogorov, Cenk Sahinalp; UMD: Doron Levy, Wolfgang Losert, Kim Stroka