Research Awards
In 2021,听Dr. Pollak was elected to be a Member of both the听Inaugural AACR Cancer Prevention Working Group Steering Committee and the听Cancer Research UK鈥檚 Prevention and Population Research Committee (PPRC).
The Cancer Research Society (CRS)听confirmed听that in review of their archives, the CRS awarded Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, Dr. Norman Kalant, and Dr. Michael Pollak $25,000 in 1986 and $32,250 in 1987 for their research work involving mechanisms of diet restriction-related reduction of carcinogen-induced breast cancer in rats.听Dr. Shyamala Gopalan is the U.S. Vice-President听Kamala Harris'听late mother.听
Under Dr. Pollak's mentorship since 2017, Dr. Stephanie Wong received the FRQS Chercheurs-Boursiers Cliniciens Junior 1 Award in 2021 for her proposal听鈥淥ptimizing decision making and prevention strategies in women at high risk for developing breast cancer鈥�.听
Under Dr. Pollak's mentorship since 2018,听Dr. Sonia del Rincon received the Canadian Cancer Society Emerging Scholar Award in 2021 for her proposal听鈥淓xamining the MNK1/2-eIF4E axis in cancer associated fibroblasts as a driver of oncogenic progression鈥�.听
In 2019, Dr. Pollak was elected to be a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). He is also Co-Leader of the听.听听
In 2013, Dr. Pollak was elected to be a Member of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS).
Dr. Pollak was awarded the 2012 Harold Warwick Award by the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute.听
Dr. Pollak was awarded the听2012 Aisenstadt award for academic achievement by the Jewish General Hospital / 9I制作厂免费 faculty.
Dr. Pollak was chosen by the Lancet and the European School of Oncology to attend a special meeting of 100 international cancer control experts that was held in Lugano Switzerland in October 2012.
Congratulations to Carolyn Algire, PhD., who was awarded the very prestigious "Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship" for Doctoral studies worth $90,000 from CIHR.
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Invited Presentations
Future and past few years:
2024
American Association for Cancer Research AACR Annual Meeting 2024 Major Symposium SY28 鈥淪hared Risk Factors and Mitigation Strategies for Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, and Metabolic Diseases: What Can We Learn?鈥�: 鈥淎ddressing shared risk factors for cancer, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disease鈥�,听San Diego, CA, USA
Chair and Speaker
2023
American Association for Cancer Research听2023 AACR Annual Meeting,听Orlando, Florida, USA
VIP status听
National Institutes of Health NIH 2-part webinar: Obesity and prostate cancer risk: Gaps in our current understanding, and thoughts on how to close the gaps: 鈥淧rostate cancer and host energy balance鈥�
Invited Presenter
2022
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pathways to Prevention (P2P) workshop: Nutrition as Prevention for Improved Cancer Health Outcome: 鈥淢edical Comorbidities; Clinical Trials鈥� |听Virtual event due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Invited Speaker
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting TM03 - Cancer Prevention Working Group (CPWG) Town Hall Meeting and Networking Reception: 鈥淐ancer Prevention and Metabolism鈥�,听New Orleans, LA, USA
Invited Speaker
2021
Mildred-Scheel-Nachwuchszentrum (MSNZ)听Metabolism-based Cancer Therapy Symposium | Virtual event due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Invited Speaker
Division of Cancer Prevention of the National Cancer Institute: Immunomodulatory Agents for Cancer Prevention | Virtual event due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Invited Speaker
Northwestern University Remote Symposium on Cancer and Obesity听| Virtual event due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Invited Speaker
2021听Russell Klein Nutrition Symposium: 鈥淢acronutrients and Cancer鈥� |听Virtual event due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Keynote Speaker
2021听AACR Annual Meeting 2021: Advances in Prevention鈥� Early Detection鈥� and Interception Session entitled, 鈥淩adiation-Induced Cancers and Cancer Survivorship鈥�: 鈥淩adiation-Induced Cancers 鈥� Risks and strategies to minimize鈥澨齶 Virtual event due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Chair and Organizer
2020
2020 AACR Annual Meeting Program Committee, San Diego, CA, USA, April
Invited Co-Chair
2019
25th AICR Research Conference: Diet, Obesity, Physical Activity and Cancer - Beyond the Blueprint,听Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, May
Invited Keynote Speaker
AACR Annual Meeting 2019,听Atlanta, GA, USA, March
Program Committee Member
2018
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)听Insulin and Cancer Workshop, Lyon, France, December
Invited Speaker
2018 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research Meet-the-Expert Session: 鈥淥besity and Cancer鈥�,听Chicago, IL, USA, April
Invited Speaker
NIH-NCI Special Emphasis Panel Review Committee "NCI Program Project V (P01) Review", Washington, DC, USA, February
Invited to review multimillion dollar program grants
AACR Obesity and Cancer, Austin, Texas, USA, January
Invited Conference Co-chair
2017
2017 Canadian Cancer Research Conference (CCRC), Vancouver, BC, November听
Invited Session Chair/Speaker
Prostate Cancer Foundation PCF's 24th Annual Scientific Retreat, Washington, DC, USA, October
Invited Guest
Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: 鈥淢etformin: Translating biology into the clinic鈥�, New York, USA, September
Invited Speaker
European Association for the Study of Diabetes鈥� (EASD) 53rd Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, September
Invited Speaker
Cancer Research UK鈥檚 Beatson International Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, July
Invited Speaker听
European Society of Endocrinology鈥檚 (ECE) 19th European Congress of Endocrinology, Lisbon, Portugal, May
Invited Speaker
Fusion Conferences Limited - Cell Death, Cell Stress and Metabolism Conference: From Basic Mechanisms to Novel Treatment Options, Cancun, Mexico, March
Invited Speaker
University of Michigan Forbes-Taubman Symposium on Cancer Research, Michigan, USA, March听
Invited Keynote Speaker听
2016
Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: 鈥淢aking Oxidative Chemotherapy Less Toxic鈥�, New York, USA, September
Invited Speaker
BACR and ECMC Joint Meeting, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, July
Invited Keynote Speaker 鈥淢etformin in cancer prevention鈥�
American Diabetes Association鈥檚 76th Scientific Sessions, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, June
Invited Speaker
Cornell University and the Strang Cancer Prevention Centre, New York City, USA, March听
Visiting Professor and Daniel Miller Memorial lecturer
NYU Center for Skeletal & Craniofacial Biology Department of Basic Science & Craniofacial Biology鈥檚 Seminar Series, New York, NY, USA, March
Invited Speaker
AACR Cancer Prevention Summit 鈥淪haping the Future of Cancer Prevention: A Roadmap for Integrative Cancer Science and Public Health鈥� at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, VA, USA, February
Invited Speaker
Keystone Meeting 鈥淐ancer + Metabolism鈥� in Banff, Alberta, February听
Invited Plenary Speaker
2015
World Oncology Forum of European School of Oncology, Milan, Italy, October
Invited participant
2nd ISCaM meeting 鈥揗etabolism and Microenvironment in Cancer Plasticity, Venice, Italy, September
Invited Plenary Speaker
FDA Meeting: Presentation regarding new clinical trials of metformin, Washington, DC, June听
Invited Speaker
Mayo Clinic Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Santa Barbara, California, June
Invited Speaker
American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, April
Invited plenary speaker
Boehringer Ingleheim, Vienna, Austria, March
Invited Speaker
Keystone symposium on 鈥淐ancer Metabolism鈥�, Vancouver, British Columbia, January
Plenary Speaker
2014
International Symposium on 鈥淎dvances in treatment of digestive cancers鈥�, Barcelona, Spain, December
Invited Speaker
University of Leuven, Belgium, November
Visiting Professor and Invited Speaker
American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Working group on obesity and cancer, Washington, DC, November
Invited delegate
Vermont Regional Cancer Centre, Burlington, November
Visiting Professor and Invited speaker
Webinar lecture on Energy Balance and cancer for NCI (USA) funded Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) program, November
Invited Speaker
鈥淕rowth Hormone and Cancer鈥� Symposium, Manchester UK, November
Invited Speaker听
Annual meeting of Society of Medical Oncology of Mexico, Ixatapa, October
Keynote Speaker
鈥�20th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat鈥�, Carlsbad, California, October
听Invited Delegate
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, October
Visiting Professor and Invited Speaker
鈥�13th Annual AACR Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research鈥�, New Orleans, September
Invited Speaker
鈥淐ancer Energetics鈥� Symposium, University of Nice, France, September
Invited Speaker (delegated to post-doc)
Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, June
Invited Speaker
Metabolism Diet and Disease 2014: Cancer and Metabolism, Washington, DC, May
Organizer and Invited Speaker
Charles University, Prague and Czech Diabetes Society, Luha膷ovice, Czech Republic, April
Visiting Professor and Invited Speaker
Cambridge Health Tech Institute, Boston, April
Invited Speaker
Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, March
Invited Keynote Speaker
Gilead Pharma, San Francisco, February
Invited speaker
Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute, Toronto, January
Invited participant, Cancer Prevention workshop
AACR prostate cancer symposium, San Diego, January
Invited Speaker
Other important meetings
On March 13, 2014, more than 300 members of the 9I制作厂免费 community attended Bravo, the University鈥檚 annual celebration of award-winning research and scholarship from the previous calendar year. Guests included prizewinners and their families, colleagues, staff, and senior administrators. This year, Bravo introduced a new format that emphasized dialogue and showcasing the award-winning research 鈥� with excellent results! See this photo of听.
Dr. Pollak organized and lectured at the 2013 Banbury Center Meeting on Biguanides and Neoplasia听at the Cold Spring Harbor in New York, which was held in October 2013.听
Dr. Pollak was among the听听invited to attend the October 26-October 27, 2012 鈥渢hink tank鈥� on global cancer control held in Lugano, Switzerland, in order to prepare a consensus statement for World Cancer Day on February 4, 2013. For further information, please visit the听.
Dr. Pollak together with Dr. Craig Thompson, President of the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City hosted an international small group meeting on metabolism and cancer that was arranged by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory during听October 30 to November 2, 2011.