Carlos Casiano, PhD Professor, Basic Sciences School of Medicine Associate Professor, Medicine School of Medicine Member, Microbiology&Molecular Gen, SM, Faculty of Graduate Studies

Professional Development 

  Classes

• Oral Presentation to the AACR Board of Directors:  Report on the MICR Activities and its Growing Role in the Fight Against Cancer Health Disparities. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Los Angeles, CA.      ( 4/2007 )

• Co-Chair, Session on Novel Autoantibodies of Pathogenetic and/or Clinical Relevance.   7th Dresden Symposium of Autoantibodies, Dresden, Germany ( 9/2004 )

• Participant. “Teaching Microbiology and Immunology to Medical Students”, an Educational Strategies Workshop.  Myrtle Beach, SC.    ( 5/1998 )

• Invited Participant. “Enhancing Career Development” a Workshop for NIH-NIAMS Supported Underrepresented Minority Scientists.      ( 4/1996 )

  Seminars and Conferences

• AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, Miami, FL ( 9/2010 - 10/2010 )

• Faculty Colloquium, Loma Linda University  ( 9/2010 )

• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Annual Meeting, Washington DC ( 4/2010 )

• Roundtable Discussion Leader. “Navigating the Road to a Successful career in Cancer Research: What to look for in a mentor”.  Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.  Washington, DC.   ( 4/2010 )

• AACR Conference on Prostate Cancer, San Diego CA  ( 2/2010 )

• Faculty Colloquium, Loma Linda University  ( 9/2009 )

• Co-chair, Session on Novel and Esoteric Autoantibodies. 9th Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies. Dresden, Germany.  ( 9/2009 )

• AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities,  Carefree, AZ ( 2/2009 )

• NIH-NCMHD Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities, Washington DC ( 12/2008 )

• Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, Orlando, FL  ( 11/2008 )

• Invited speaker, SACNAS Conference, Salt Lake, UT ( 10/2008 )

• Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), San Diego, CA ( 4/2008 )

• Roundtable Discussion Leader. “Navigating the Road to a Successful career in Cancer Research: Networking for Professional and Scientific Development”. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. San Diego, CA.   ( 4/2008 )

• Chairperson, Undergraduate Student Caucus and Poster Competition Session. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. San Diego, CA.     ( 4/2008 )

• Invited speaker, AACR Conference on “The Science of Cancer Health Disparities”, Atlanta, GA.   ( 11/2007 )

• Invited Speaker, 8th Dresden Symposium of Autoantibodies and Autoimmunity, Dresden, Germany ( 9/2007 )

• National Cancer Institute-Cancer Health Disparities Summit, Bethesda, MD ( 7/2007 )

• Invited Speaker, Second Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities. Fort Worth, TX. ( 5/2007 )   Oxidative stress and racial disparities in prostate cancer mortality:  is there a connection?

• Invited Speaker, Annual AACR Meeting, Los Angeles, CA ( 4/2007 )

• Roundtable Discussion Leader. “Careers in Clinical and Translational Cancer Research:  Building a Career in Cancer Research”. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Los Angeles, CA.    ( 4/2007 )

• Moderator, Press Conference on Cancer Health Disparities. Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Los Angeles, CA.     ( 4/2007 )

• Invited Speaker, Cambridge Research Institute Pep Talk-Protein Arrays Conference. San Diego, CA ( 1/2007 )

• AACR Special Conference on Innovations in Cancer Research, San Francisco, CA ( 12/2006 )

• Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, Washington DC ( 11/2006 )

• Session Chair, AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Council Think Tank on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities and the Medically Underserved, Philadelphia, PA ( 10/2006 )

• Invited Speaker, 2006 Health Care Disparities Research Symposium, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA ( 9/2006 )

• National Cancer Institute-Cancer Health Disparities Summit, Bethesda, MD ( 7/2006 )

• Annual AACR Meeting, Washington, DC ( 4/2006 )

• Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, San Diego, CA ( 11/2005 )

• Annual AACR Meeting, Anaheim, CA ( 4/2005 )

• Co-Chair, Session on Mechanisms of Autoantibody Induction. 5th Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies. Dresden, Germany.    ( 10/2000 )

• Co-Chair, Session on Autoantigens, Autoantibodies and their Role in the Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Diseases II.  4th Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies. Dresden, Germany.    ( 10/1998 )

  Post-doc Training

• Postdoctoral Training, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA ( 1/1991 - 12/1997 )

  Special Projects

• Associate Editor, Autoimmunity Highlights, a Springer-Verlag journal    ( 1/2010 - 12/2010 )