JBL Symposium XXVI – 2023

Ionizing Radiation and the Human Brain

Friday, October 27th, 2023
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Program

1:00-1:05 PM: Welcome
Zachary Nagel, PhD, and Kristopher Sarosiek, PhD
Co-Directors, John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

1:05-1:10 PM: Opening Remarks
Jane J. Kim, MPH, ScD
Interim Dean of the Faculty and Dean for Academic Affairs
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

1:10-1:25 PM: Introduction to Ionizing Radiation and the Human Brain
Helen Shih, MD, MS, MPH, FASTRO
Chief, CNS & Eye Services, Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital

1:25-1:40 PM: A Patient’s Perspective:
Laura Greco

1:40-1:55 PM: Preventing Radiation Therapy-Induced Neurocognitive Impairment by Targeting Apoptosis
Kristopher Sarosiek, PhD
Co-Director, John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences
Associate Professor of Radiation Biology and Cell Death
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

1:55-2:40 PM: Radiation Associated Functional Alteration of Cortical Information Processing in Glioma-Infiltrated Cortex
Shawn Hervey-Jumper, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

2:40 – 3:00 PM: Coffee Break

3:00-3:15 PM: Targeting DNA Repair for Glioblastoma Therapy
Zachary Nagel, PhD
Co-Director, John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences
Associate Professor of Genomics and Cancer Biology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

3:15 – 4:00 PM: Organotypic Brain Slice Models for Radiation Research
Scott Richard Floyd, MD, PhD
Gary Hock and Lyn Proctor Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Duke University School of Medicine

4:00 – 4:45 PM: What Have We Learned From Therapeutic Radiation for Brain Tumors?
Kristin Redmond, MD, MSc, FACS
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

4:45-5 :00 PM: Closing Remarks
Zachary Nagel, PhD, and Kristopher Sarosiek, PhD
Co-Directors, John B. Little Center for Radiation Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

5:00-6:00 PM Closing Reception and Networking
Kresge Cafeteria