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May 1-2, 2016 The David Lopatie Conference Centre Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 2016 JUSTEN PASSWELL SYMPOSIUM Gaps in Translational Hemato-Oncology For information and registration, see www.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/passwell2016 Symposium Secretary Barbara Morgenstern [email protected] Conference Coordinator Irit Veksler [email protected] Keynote Speakers Karl Skorecki Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel Seishi Ogawa Kyoto University, Japan This year’s Passwell Symposium will bring together both active researchers and physicians, with the intention of improving our understanding of the mechanisms underlying hematological malignancies, and how we can better translate them into effective therapies. While tremendous advances have already been made in leukemia biology, curative treatments have not kept pace. Scientific co-Chairs Martin Ellis Yinon Ben-Neriah Tsvee Lapidot Liran Shlush Scientific Committee Liran Shlush Benjamin Geiger Eran Elinav Ayelet Erez Invited Speakers Ido Amit Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Irit Avivi Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Olivier Bernard Institut Gustave Roussy, France Ruud Delwel Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands Shai Izraeli Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Israel Tsvee Lapidot Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Ravi Majeti Stem Cell Institute, Stanford School of Medicine, USA Michael Milyavsky Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel Florence Nguyen Khac Unité de Cytogénétique Hematologique, France Yishai Ofran Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel Seishi Ogawa Kyoto University, Japan Elli Papaemmanuil Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA Jacob Rowe Rambam Health Care Campus and Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel Uri Rozovski Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel Liran Shlush Weizmann Institute of Science, and Visiting Physician, Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel, and Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada Karl Skorecki Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel Jean Soulier Université Paris Diderot, France John Welch Washington University, USA Sponsored by MICC The Moross Integrated Cancer Center The Chorafas Institute for Scientific Exchange
