for cancer detection and treatment. Professor Jacks has published more than 200 scientific papers.

Professor Jacks has served on the Board of Scientific Advisors of the National Cancer Institute, is the immediate past chair of the National Cancer Advisory Board, and served as co-chair of Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot’s Blue Ribbon Panel. He is an advisor to several biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and is a director of Amgen and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Among many honors, Professor Jacks is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Fellows of the American Association of Cancer Research Academy

Dr Avrum Spira

Title: Speaker

Country: USA

Organisation: Boston University School of Medicine

Dr. Spira is an Associate Professor in theDepartments of Medicine, and Pathology and Bioinformatics and is Chief of the Division of Computational Biomedicine in the Department of Medicine at BUSM. He attends in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston Medical Center. He directs the Bioinformatics Program in the Pulmonary Center and directs the Translational Bioinformatics Program in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Boston University.

Dr. Spira’s laboratory research interests focus on applying genomic and bioinformatics tools to the translational study of lung cancer and Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (COPD), with the ultimate objective of developing novel diagnostics and therapeutics that can directly impact clinical care. He is funded as a Principal Investigator through three institutes at the NIH including the NCI, NHLBI, and NIEHS as well as the Department of Defense. His research