Day 1
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Introductory overview
Lynn Caporale
8:45-9:00 am
Dexamethasone and Glioblastoma: friend or foe
Eric Wong; Akshitkumar Mistry
9:00-10:30 am
Break
10:30-11:00 am
Drug effects on the tumor microenvironment and Physiology
Rakesh Jain; Emily Gallagher
11:00 am-12:30 pm
Lunch Break
12:30-1:30 pm
Drug Repurposing
Hasan Slika
1:30-2:00 pm
The positive and negative effects of "non-oncology" drugs on the response of tumor patients to checkpoint inhibitors
Vikas Sukhatme
2:00-2:45 pm
Break
2:45-3:15 pm
Looking to the Future: What Clinical Databases Can Reveal About the Effect of Non-Oncology Drugs on Cancer Patient Survival. An example: unintended effects of commonly prescribed drugs on the pancreatic cancer microenvironment
Michael Feigin; Chris Sander
3:15-4:30 pm
TBA talk selected from posters and discussion
4:30-4:50 pm
Summary
Lynn Caporale
4:50-5:00 pm