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Cancer Research Day is Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023

All Penn State students, trainees, faculty and staff interested in cancer research careers are invited to attend the sixth annual Cancer Research Day hybrid event on Saturday, Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Animal, Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Building on the University Park campus.

Agenda will be posted at a later date.

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Event overview

About Cancer Research Day

The annual Cancer Research Day provides attendees with the opportunity to collaborate with peers and learn more about cancer research careers from established research professionals with a variety of backgrounds who can support trainees as they showcase their own research. Event organizers hope students, trainees and faculty are inspired to grow and expand their cancer research careers.

This year’s program features oral talks from current cancer research trainees, a keynote speaker in an established cancer research career and a poster session. Only the keynote and trainee speaker sessions will be live-streamed.

Those invited to attend include:

  • Undergraduate students
  • Medical students
  • Graduate students
  • Postdoctoral scholars
  • Residents and fellows
  • Faculty
  • Staff

Featured speakers

  • Giselle Saulnier Sholler, MD

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    Division Chief
    Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
    Penn State Health Children’s Hospital

    Dr. Sholler, an internationally known physician-scientist and a pediatric hematology-oncology clinician and researcher, will serve as the division chief of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital and will be the director of pediatric oncology research at Penn State College of Medicine effective Sept. 1. Sholler joins Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine from Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, N.C., where she served as a pediatric hematology and oncology physician. She will bring with her the Beat Childhood Cancer Research Consortium, which has enrolled more than 1,800 pediatric cancer patients in more than 23 trials.

Giselle Saulnier Sholler, MD

A head-and-shoulders portrait of Giselle Saulnier Sholler, MD

Division Chief
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Penn State Health Children’s Hospital

Dr. Sholler, an internationally known physician-scientist and a pediatric hematology-oncology clinician and researcher, will serve as the division chief of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital and will be the director of pediatric oncology research at Penn State College of Medicine effective Sept. 1. Sholler joins Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine from Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, N.C., where she served as a pediatric hematology and oncology physician. She will bring with her the Beat Childhood Cancer Research Consortium, which has enrolled more than 1,800 pediatric cancer patients in more than 23 trials.

Contact

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For more information

With questions about the event, contact Tonya Krushinsky:

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