
Pediatric Cancer Research Symposium
The 2025 Pediatric Cancer Research Group Symposium was held Wednesday, August 20 at the UNMC Campus at the Truhlsen Event Center in the Michael Sorrell Center (MSC) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The theme of this year's symposium was hematological malignancies.
Photos from the 2025 Symposium

Children's Nebraska president and CEO, Chanda Chacon; chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Kari Simonsen, MD, MBA; and director of the Pediatric Cancer Research Group, Don Coulter, MD, talk before the start of the symposium.

Researcher presents his scientific poster at the symposium poster show.

Children's Nebraska president and CEO, Chanda Chacon; University of Nebraska President, Jeffrey Gold, MD: and Nebraska State Senator, Danielle Conrad, take part in an opening panel discussion.

James O. Armitage, MD, Joe Shapiro Professor of Medicine, professor, Division of Oncology & Hematology, gives the features speaker talk about his role with the Nebraska Lymphoma Study Group.

Leaders from RUNX1 Research Program, Angels Among Us, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and Team Jack participate in the philanthropic panel.

Chittal Raulji, MBBS, associate professor, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology presents at the symposium.

Gargi Ghosal, PhD, associate professor, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy presents her research