Anderson Center for Cancer Research
To advance knowledge of cancer, improve treatments of the disease, and find cures, scientists are working to understand some of the most basic principles that govern life, including how cells normally grow and divide, how they differentiate into various types of cells, how genes switch on and off, and how the body’s immune system interacts with cancer.
The Anderson Center for Cancer Research was established to encourage and support cancer-related investigations that span a range of disciplines: cell and developmental biology, immunology, medical genetics, virology, chemistry, structural biology, bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics. The approximately 30 laboratories that conduct cancer-related investigations constitute fertile ground for the kinds of collaborations and cross-disciplinary approaches most likely to produce breakthroughs.
The Anderson Center provides funding and infrastructure to support promising interdisciplinary approaches to cancer-related research, including graduate and postdoctoral fellowships for individuals working at the leading edge of cancer research.
2017 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 8, 2017
Leonid Timashev, Graduate Fellow
de Lange Laboratory, The Rockefeller University
Rick Lifton, President, The Rockefeller University
David Sabatini
MIT/Whitehead Institute/Broad Institute
Tom Misteli
National Cancer Institute
Maria Jasin
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mike Stratton
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
2016 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 16, 2016
Roos Karssemeijer, Graduate Fellow
de Lange Laboratory, The Rockefeller University
Rick Lifton, President, The Rockefeller University
Karlene Cimprich
Stanford University
Levi Garraway
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute
John Diffley
The Francis Crick Institute, London
Don Cleveland
University of California at San Diego, Ludwig Cancer Institute
2015 Anderson Cancer Symposium – Friday, September 18, 2015
Roos Karssemeijer, Graduate Fellow
de Lange Laboratory
The Rockefeller University
Xiaowei Zhuang
Harvard University, Boston
Feng Zhang
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge
Michael Young
Vice President for Academic Affairs, The Rockefeller University
Fred Alt
Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Robert Weinberg
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge
Sponsored by the Anderson Center for Cancer Research
2013 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 27, 2013
Shaheen Kabir, Graduate Fellow
de Lange Laboratory, The Rockefeller University
Presentation of the Poster Awards
Titia de Lange
Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research
The Rockefeller University
Jonathan Weissman
University of California, San Francisco
Angelika Amon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen Kowalczykowski
University of California, Davis
Tyler Jacks
Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 7, 2012
Aakanksha Singhvi, Postdoctoral Fellow
Shaham Laboratory, The Rockefeller University
Presentation of the Poster Awards
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President, The Rockefeller University
William Kaelin
Harvard Medical School and Associate Director, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Ronald DePinho, President
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Tim Stearns
Stanford University
Robert Tjian
University of California at Berkeley and President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2011 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 9, 2011
Aakanksha Singhvi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Shaham Laboratory
The Rockefeller University
Presentation of the Poster Awards
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, President
The Rockefeller University
Carolyn Bertozzi
University of California, Berkeley
Arthur Horwich
Yale University
Randy Schekman
University of California, Berkeley
Leonard Guarente
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 24, 2010
Lisa Postow, Rockefeller University
Presentation of poster awards
Paul Nurse, President
The Rockefeller University
Timothy Mitchison
Harvard Medical School
Stephen Elledge
Harvard Medical School
Carlos Bustamante
University of California, Berkeley
Peter Schultz
The Scripps Research Institute
2009 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 11, 2009
Alexander Kelly, Postdoctoral Fellow
Funabiki Laboratory, The Rockefeller University
Presentation of the Poster Awards
Paul Nurse, President
The Rockefeller University
Bruce Stillman
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
John Kuriyan
University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Pollard
Yale University
Cynthia Kenyon
University of California, San Francisco
2008 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 12, 2008
Alexander Kelly, Postdoctoral Fellow
Funabiki Laboratory, The Rockefeller University
Presentation of the Poster Awards
Paul Nurse, President
The Rockefeller University
Marc Kirschner
Harvard University
Susan Lindquist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen West
Cancer Research UK
Kim Nasmyth
University of Oxford
2007 Anderson Cancer Symposium – September 14, 2007
Alexander Kelly, Postdoctoral Scholar
Funabiki Laboratory, The Rockefeller University
Gary Ruvkun
Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital
Scott Hammond
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Reuven Agami
The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Danesh Moazed
Harvard Medical School