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What you NEED to KNOW
IMAGINE SOLUTIONS presents 26 Leading-Edge thinkers
A National Cancer Summit
LIFE-CHANGING, LIFE-SAVING CANCER BREAKTHROUGHS
What the next five years will mean to you, your family, your friends
A FIRST!
The nation’s top medical researchers in four key disciplines
Genes • Immunology • Resistance • Microbiome
will be brought together on one stage for the first time, in a partnership
between the American Cancer Society and the Imagine Solutions Conference.
Addressing cancer at the molecular level—understanding your unique genetic make-up
and devising personal treatments—is the key driver to solutions across all types of the disease.
Meet Our Preeminent Panel:
Moderator – Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer, American Cancer Society
GENES (Genomics) – Dr. Olufunmilayo I. Olopade
Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics, University of Chicago Medicine. Principal Investigator
NIH/NCI grants; the Falk Medical Research Trust, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation;
MacArthur Fellow Genius Grant
IMMUNOLOGY (Precision Medical Therapies) – Dr. Olivera Finn
Founding Chair of the Department of Immunology University of Pittsburgh;
Past president of the American Association of Immunologists
RESISTANCE (Addressing Theraputic Resistance) – Dr. Ken Anderson
Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Director of the Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center and
LeBow Institute for Myeloma Therapeutics at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center.
The recipient of many scientific and humanitarian awards
MICROBIOME (Microbial Cells in the Body) – George Prendergast PhD
CEO, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research. Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Research,
the most highly cited journal in the field