2:00 pm

Welcome

John L. Marshall, MD

2:15 pm

Why Personalized Medicine is the Only Way: Targeting the EGFR pathway

Louis M. Weiner, MD

2:30 pm

Panel Discussion: Is the Answer Already in our Hands?Moderated by John L. Marshall, MD

Tissue as diagnostic tool

Hartmut Juhl, MD

MicroRNA

Anton Wellstein, MD, PhD

Metabolomics

Albert J. Fornace, Jr, MD

Connecting the Dots: Informatics

Subha Madhavan, PhD

Question and Answer

4:05 pm

Challenges of Cancer Targeted Drug Development

Turning a “Target” into a “Drug”

Milton Brown, MD, PhD

Turning a “Drug” into a “Therapy”

Gilad Gordon, MD, MBA

4:40

Break

Part II: Personalized Medicine & the Cure for Cancer

5:00pm

Thomas R. Schafer Memorial Lecture in Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal Cancer

From Bench to Bedside to Pfizer

Mace Rothenberg, MD

5:30 pm

Empiricism: The Ethics of “Trial and Error” Medicine

Carol Taylor, PhD, MSN

5:50 pm

The Role of Cancer Advocacy in Finding the Cures

Carolyn "Bo" Aldigé

6:10 pm

Healthcare Reform and the Cures of Cancer

The Hon. W.J. (Billy) Tauzin