Dear SIOP Epidemiology & Outcomes Network Members,

 

Please join us for our educational webinar, organized by the SIOP Epidemiology & Outcomes Network. In this session, you will learn about rare germline structural variants as risk factors for the development of paediatric solid tumors.

 

Webinar: Rare Germline Structural Variants Increase Risk for Pediatric Solid Tumors

 

>> Speakers: Dr. Riaz Gillani, MD and Dr. Ryan Collins, MD

>>February 5, 2025

>>3 pm CET (Geneva)

>>Register: https://members.siop-online.org/event/Feb5

You will need your SIOP username and password to register. You can reset your password from here: https://members.siop-online.org/default.aspx

Dr. Riaz Gillani grew up in Fredericksburg, Virginia and subsequently studied biomedical engineering at Brown University. He completed medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, pediatrics residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program, and pediatric hematology/ oncology fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital. As a post-doctoral researcher, he trained under the mentorship of Dr. Eliezer Van Allen and Dr. Katie Janeway, publishing research on somatic structural variants in oncogenesis and germline risk factors in pediatric solid tumors. Clinically, Dr. Gillani cares for pediatric patients with solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. He is the principal investigator of a research laboratory focused on computational pediatric cancer research based at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: https://gillanilab.dana-farber.org/ <https://gillanilab.dana-farber.org/>.

Dr. Ryan Collins is an Instructor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where his research focuses on discovering new genetic risk factors for cancer using large-scale genomic data science approaches. Ryan completed his Ph.D. at Harvard under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Talkowski; his dissertation research involved the development and application of new methods for the analysis of structural variation in tens of thousands of human genomes as part of the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) project, as well as across various pediatric and adult-onset Mendelian diseases. Ryan grew up in New Hampshire, holds an A.B. in genetics from Dartmouth College, and lives in the Boston area with his wife, two kids, and their dog.

 

 

Warm regards,

Steering Group of the SIOP Epidemiology and Outcomes Network

 

Erin Marcotte, Co-Chair

Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Co-Chair

Dilnasheen Rana, Steering Group Member

Gabriela Villanueva, Steering Group Member

Henrike Karim – Kos, Steering Group Member

Manuela Orjuela, Steering Group Member

Miho Kato, Steering Group Member