2025

 

NanoFlo AI-HEALTH Symposium

AI for Healthcare, Exploration, and Advanced Translational Horizons (AI-HEALTH) Symposium, hosted by University of South Florida Taneja College of Pharmacy Graduate Programs. The event will be held virtually on June 3rd, 2025 from 9 AM to 4 PM

Feature speakers:

  • Andrew Borkowski, MD from the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital

  • Dmitry Goldgof, PhD from the University of South Florida Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity, and Computing

  • Stephan C. Schürer, PhD from the University of Miami Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

  • Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido, PhD from the University of Miami Department of Computer Science

  • Yu Sun, PhD from the University of South Florida Bellini College of AI, Cybersecurity, and Computing

UF Health Cancer Center Cancer AI Working Group

Stephan Schürer, PhD – Professor |  Department of Pharmacology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami

Targeting the Dark Cancer Kinome: AI-Driven Informatics Infrastructure for Translational Drug Discovery and Precision Oncology

DATE:             Wednesday, May 28, 2025

TIME:              12:00pm – 1:00pm

LOCATION:   Hybrid

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

1086 – Introducing the Florida Cancer Research (FL CARES) Network and the Platform for Accelerating Collaborative Computational Cancer Research (PAC3R) Apr. 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Michael Sinclair, Carlos Obregon, Caty Chung, Dusica Vidovic, Lukas Rupprecht, Jeronimo Pissinis, Marcin Pilarczyk, Franklin Sotolongo, Kathleen M. Jagodnik, Till Krenz, Umamaheswari Natarajan, Erin Kobetz, Mondal M. Ananda, Ling Cen, Xuefeng Wang, Appu Rathinavelu, Stuart Chalk, Jiang Bian, Ji-Hyun Lee, Qianqian Song, Vasileios Stathias, Stephan C. Schürer. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Florida International University, Miami, FL, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Abstract

Florida ranks second in cancer burden in the United States. The Florida CAncer RESearch (FL CARES) Network (https://floridacancernetwork.org/) is a statewide collaboration dedicated to advancing cancer research and improving patient outcomes through education, collaborative research initiatives …. (read more)

This work was supported by the State of Florida Biomedical Research Program, Bankhead Coley Research Infrastructure grant number 23B16.

4115 – Gene expression and bioinformatics profiles of four different cancer cells following treatment with HDAC inhibitor SAHA Apr. 29, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Umamaheswari Natarajan, Appu Rathinavelu. Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

This work was supported by the State of Florida Biomedical Research Program, Bankhead Coley Research Infrastructure grant number 23B16.

1052 – Integrating geographical and socioeconomic data with genomic information for enhanced prediction of cancer risk using large language models and knowledge graphs Apr. 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Ofek Mendel, Michael S. Sinclair, Kathleen M. Jagodnik, Till Krenz, Erin Kobetz, Beronica A. Ocasio, Jeronimo Pissinis, Vasileios Stathias, Alon Bartal, Stephan Schürer. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, University of Miami, Miami, FL

This work was supported by the State of Florida Biomedical Research Program, Bankhead Coley Research Infrastructure grant number 23B16.

1081 – Sylvester Data Portal: Streamlined access to standardized clinicogenomic data Apr. 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Jeronimo I. Pissinis, Oliver Mazariegos, Marcin Pilarczyk, Michael S. Sinclair, Lukas Rupprecht, Caty Chung, Franklin Sotolongo, Gabriel Lichtenstein, Kathleen M. Jagodnik, Joanita Figueredo, Pearl Seo, Carlos J. Obregon, Marcin Blicharz, Piotr Smol, Michal Pyrkosz, Mateusz Jura, Vasileios Stathias, Stephan Schürer. Univ. of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Ctr., Miami, FL

This work was supported by the State of Florida Biomedical Research Program, Bankhead Coley Research Infrastructure grant number 23B16.

 

Session MW08 – Utilizing AACR Project GENIE Real-world Clinico-genomic Data – Exploring the mutational signature landscape of over 200,000 cases from AACR GENIE

Vasileios Stathias. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL

223 – Evaluating the therapeutic potential of MDM2 inhibitor RG-7388 and epigenetic modulator CM-272 in cisplatin-resistant ovarian cancer Apr. 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Fatimah Alssamani, Umamaheswari Natarajan, Shyam Jaganathan, Appu Rathinavelu. College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

441 – Evaluation of the effects of MDM2 inhibitor and epigenetic modifiers in combination with AURKB inhibitors for treating lung cancer. Apr. 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Neha Tumati, Umamaheswari Natarajan, Shyam Sundar Jaganathan, Appu Rathinavelu. Farquhar Honors College, Halmos College of Arts and Science, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, Farquhar Honors College, Halmos College of Arts and Science, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, Farquhar Honors College, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

445 – Epigenetic modification induced by DNMTs inhibitor enhances apoptosis through p21 pathway in neuroblastoma cells. Apr. 27, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Arun Jagarlamudi, Nicolas Tapia Stoll, Shyam Sundar Jaganathan, Umamaheswari Natarajan, Appu Rathinavelu. Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Barry & Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Barry & Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

1618 – Blocking MDM2 induces downregulation of PARP and enhances apoptosis in SK-N-SH neuroblastoma cells. Apr. 28, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Shyam Sundar Jaganathan, Umamaheswari Natarajan, Appu Rathinavelu. Barry & Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University, Davie, FL

 

2025 nf-core/hackathon

A virtual or in person nf-core hackathon co-sponsored by Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.  March 24-26, 2025, Miami, FL, USA

Annual South Florida Translational Research

MOGAT: A Multi-Omics Integration Framework Using Graph Attention Networks for Cancer Subtype Prediction

Ananda M Mondal

April 10-11, 2025

IAPCON 2025

Predicting Hospice Care Implementation Through the Perception of Death Among Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

Ananda M Mondal

Jan 31 – Feb 2, 2025

 

2024

Machine Learning League

Aboian, M. From Algorithm to the Clinic: Building Academic Industry Collaboration to Improve Daily Workflows in Radiology August 14, 2024, Tampa, FL, USA

University of Miami’s Cancer Control Program Meeting

Schürer, S.C. Research and Clinical Informatics Infrastructure to Support Precision Medicine and Translational Drug Discovery for Novel Dark Targets; April 17, 2024, Miami, FL, USA.

Florida Academic Cancer Center Alliance

Schürer, S.C. PAC3R: A Novel Platform to Support Collaborative Computational Cancer Research in Florida; April 1-2, 2024, Orlando, FL, USA.

2023

ACS Fall 2023

Schürer, S.C. Enabling Research via FAIR and Open Data; peer reviewed talk at ACS National Meeting; Aug 13-17, 2023, San Francisco, CA,USA.