Agenda

Agenda

All times are in Western Time.
Program is subject to change.

Short Course Day 1 (May 15, 2025)

Time Session Location People
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Short Course 1: New Drug Development and Dose Finding Edwards R166 Instructor: Naitee Ting
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Short Course 2: Data Science and AI in Precision Caner Research Alway M121Q Instructors: Lei Xing, Kun-Sing Yu, Ruogu Fang, and Michael Gensheimer

Conference Program Day 2 (May 16, 2025)

Time Session Location People
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Opening Remarks Chem-H Rotunda E241 Ying Lu (Chair); Speakers: Steven Artandi, Sylvia Plevritis
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM Keynote Session 1: Driving Innovation: How AI Is Reshaping Oncology Clinical Studies Chem-H Rotunda E241 Shivaani Kummar (Chair); Keynote Speaker: Shannon McWeeney; Discussant: Ezra Cohen
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM Break and Poster Viewing
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Invited Session 1: Beyond Data: AI-Driven Insights for the Next Era of Drug Development Chem-H Rotunda E241 Dacheng Liu (Chair); Speakers: James Zou, Herb Peng, Jimeng Sun, Su-In Lee
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM Invited Session 2 (Panel): Biomarker-Fueled Precision: Transforming Translational Cancer Research Chem-H Rotunda E241 Shannon McWeeney (Chair); Panel: Bin Chen, Uno Hajime, Cystal MacKall, Alice Chen, Jennifer L. Casewell-Jin
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Break and Poster Viewing
3:45 PM - 5:30 PM Invited Session 3 (Panel): Bridging Evidence and Meaning: Statistical Approaches to Clinical Significance Chem-H Rotunda E241 Ming-Hui Chen (Chair); Panel: May Mo, Yuan Ji, Steven Goodman, Lee-Jen Wei, Kevin Bugin
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Travel to Stanford Barn
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Conference Banquest Stanford Barn Yuan Ji (Chair); Banquet Speaker: Stephen Ruberg

Conference Program Day 3 (May 17, 2025)

Time Session Location People
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Keynote Session 2: LLM-Lasso: A Robust Framework for Domain-Informed Feature Selection... Chem-H Rotunda E241 Ying Lu (Chair); Keynote: Robert Tibshirani; Discussant: Dacheng Liu
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Break and Poster Viewing
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Invited Session 4: The Art of Dose Optimization Throughout the Drug Lifecycle Chem-H Rotunda E241 Byung Park (Chair); Speakers: Haitao Pan, Shivaani Kummar, Leena Ghandi;
Discussant: Naitee Ting
11:45 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch and Poster Viewing
1:15 PM - 3:00 PM Invited Session 5: Emerging Frontiers of Cancer Research Chem-H Rotunda E241 Lu Tian (Chair); Krishna Padmanabhan, Ezra Cohen, Ruishan Liu, Poster winners
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Break and Poster Viewing
3:30 AM - 5:00 PM Invited Session 6 (Panel): From Setbacks to Solutions in Complex Oncology Trials Chem-H Rotunda E241 Alice Chen (Chair); Panel: Laura Esserman, Jack Lee, Liza Villaruz,
Sammi Tang, Susan Halabi, Kyle Wathen
5:15 PM - 5:30 PM Closing Remarks

Short Course Day 4 (May 18, 2025)

Time Session Location People
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Short Course 3: Bayesian Designs of Clinical Trials Using Historical Data... LKSC 120 Instructors: Ming-Hui Chen, Min Li, Yanyan Zhu
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Short Course 4: On RMST in Survival Analysis LKSC 130 Instructor: Lu Tian
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Short Course 5: Bayesian Statistics and Bayesian Models for Practical Dose Finding... Edwards R358 Instructors: Yuan Ji, Ying Lu, Dehui Bi