Integrative Pathobiology-in-Population Sciences (IPPS):
The 7th International MPE Meeting
June 11-12, 2026
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Buffalo, NY
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Abstracts due by May 1, 2026
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Advancing integrative molecular and population-level biomedical health science, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, addressing research challenges, optimizing medicine and public health and education systems.
Meeting details
The IPPS Molecular Pathological Epidemiology (MPE) Meeting Series is a unique meeting series open to the International research community. Founded by Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, in 2013, the meeting series aims to:
- Advance integrative molecular and population-level biomedical health science
- Promote interdisciplinary collaboration
- Address research challenges
- Optimize medicine and public health training and education systems
Agenda
Thursday, June 11
7 - 8 a.m. - Breakfast
8:15 a.m. - Welcome: Christine Ambrosone, PhD and Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD
8:20 - 9:50 a.m. - Plenary Session 1: Microbiome-metabolome-immune
- Susan Bullman, MD: Keynote address: Intratumoral Microbes: From Niche Adaptation to Single-Cell Dynamics Within the Tumor Microenvironment
- Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD: Integrating microbiology, immunology, and genomics into MPE, especially for studying early-onset cancer
- Spencer Rosario, PhD
9:50 - 10:10 a.m. - Break
10:10 - 11:50 a.m. - Plenary Session 2: AI/digital/spatial/immune pathology
- Kun-Hsing Yu, MD, PhD: Advancing Real-Time Cancer Pathology Evaluation through Artificial Intelligence
- Mustapha Abubakar, MD, PhD
- Angela Omilian, PhD: HLA class I and II genotypic diversity and survival in a cohort of Black women with invasive breast cancer
- Stephanie Schmit, PhD, MPH: Exploring differences in T cell receptor repertoires in colorectal cancer by age of onset and genetic ancestry
11:50 a.m. - Group Photo
12 - 2 p.m. - Lunch and Poster Sessions
2 - 3:15 p.m. - Plenary Session 3: Genetics and mutational signatures
- Song Yao, MD, PhD: A novel triple-negative subtyping defined by mutational signatures in Black women
- Maria Teresa Landi, MD, PhD: The mutagenic forces shaping the development and evolution of lung cancer
- Christine Ambrosone, PhD: African ancestral variants in the Dufffy Antigen Receptor (DARC) gene, tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and breast cancer risk in Black women
3:15 - 3:45 p.m. - Break
3:45 - 5 p.m. - Chair Session 1: Genetics/global health (Stephanie Schmit, moderator)
- Timothy Rebbeck, PhD: Genetics and Genomics in Cancer Health Disparities
- Jonine Figueroa, PhD, MPH: Insights on the role of socioeconomic status and molecular epidemiology of breast cancer: Findings from the UK, USA and Africa
- Kenan Onel, MD, PhD
- Sheheryar Kabraji, BMBCh: High-plex tissue imaging for translational cancer research: examples and opportunities
Friday, June 12
7 - 8 a.m. - Breakfast
8 - 9:15 a.m. - Plenary Session 1: Hot topics
- Jill Koshiol, PhD: The Chile Biliary Longitudinal Study (BiLS): a rich resource for molecular pathological epidemiology.
- Naoko Sasomoto, MD, PhD: Pre-diagnostic reproductive exposures and ovarian tumor immune profiles
- Ting-Yuan David Cheng, PhD: Obesity, Adiposity, and Immune Response to Tumors - What Is on the Horizon?
9:15 - 9:25 a.m. - Break
9:25 - 10:40 a.m. - Chair Session 1: Early-onset cancer, aging (Gretchen Giearch, moderator)
- Joyce Ohm, PhD: Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Cancer Patients; cause or consequence?
- Li Tang, MD, PhD: Exploring tumor microenvironment underlying sex difference in bladder cancer survival
- Tomotaka Ugai, PhD, MD: Evidence triangulation in early-onset cancer research
10:40 - 10:50 a.m. - Break
10:50 - 12 p.m. - Breaking news talks
12 p.m. - Lunch
Keynote Speaker
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Additional speakers
- Mustapha Abubakar, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute
- Christine Ambrosone, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Ting-Yuan David Cheng, PhD, The Ohio State University
- Jonine Figueroa, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute
- Gretchen Gierach, PhD, MPH, National Cancer Institute
- Sheheryar Kabraji, BMBCh, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Jill Koshiol, PhD, National Cancer Institute
- Maria Teresa Landi, MD, PhD, National Cancer Institute
- Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
- Joyce Ohm, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Angela Omilian, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Kenan Onel, MD, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Timothy Rebbeck, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Spencer Rosario, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Naoko Sasamoto, MD, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
- Stephanie Schmit, PhD, MPH, Cleveland Clinic
- Li Tang, MD PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Tomotaka Ugai, PhD, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Song Yao, MD, PhD, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Kun-Hsing Yu, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Meeting Co-Chairs
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Program Committee
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
The Ohio State University
Integrative Tumor Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, National Cancer Institute
Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Abstract submission is open
Please submit your abstract by May 1, 2026 for consideration. You may submit abstracts that have been submitted/presented elsewhere or will be submitted elsewhere. We do NOT put any copyright on your abstract or officially publish your abstract. Our abstract system and poster session are "retreat style". We will print your abstract in our printed program books only, not on the meeting website.
2026 Location
Lodging information
Host hotel: Wyndham Garden Hotel
Address: 125 High St., Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: 877-999-3223
Conference room rate: $126.00/night plus tax, must be reserved by May 11, 2026
Group/Block Code: IPPS MPE Meeting, 061026IPP
For information about lodging options near Roswell Park, visit the Buffalo Niagara Visitors Bureau.
Roswell Park is located in the beautiful Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, just 9 miles from the Buffalo Niagara International Airport and only 1 mile from downtown Buffalo, NY.