Joseph R. Bertino Memorial Lecture Series

Dr. Bertino sitting at a laboratory bench

Joseph R. Bertino Memorial Lecture Series

November 12, 2025
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Followed by Reception

This event will celebrate the life of Dr. Joseph R. Bertino, former Interim Director and Chief Scientific Officer of Rutgers Cancer Institute, and examine clinical, laboratory and translational research in the areas of cancer and hematologic disorders. Details and a formal agenda to follow. We hope you will join us.

To support the Joseph R. Bertino Memorial Lecture Series, please visit raise.rutgersfoundation.org/event/bertino.

Speaker:

Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD
Cancer Center Director
Senior Vice President
Staney P. Reimann Chair in Oncology Research
Fox Chase Cancer Center
 


Previous Years

Headshot of Yang-Yu Liu, PhD2024 Program

View the 2024 program with Yang-Yu Liu, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Associate Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

2023 Program

View the 2023 program with Arnold J. Levine, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Systems Biology, Institute for Advanced Study, who discussed the 'Exploration of the Genetic and Genomic Causes of Cancers of African or European Ancestry.'

2022 Program

View the inaugural 2022 program with speakers:

Frederick W. Alt, PhD ~ 'Anti-Cancer Drug Resistance, Gene Amplification & Beyond'

Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director, Program in Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital

Bruce A. Chabner, MD ~ 'Travels with Joe Along the Folate Highway'

Allen Distinguished Investigator Clinical Director Emeritus, Massachusetts General Hospital

Carl H. June, MD ~ 'Engineered T-Cells as Cancer Therapy'

Director, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania