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2026 MIT Koch Institute Symposium

The goal of this symposium is to explore how nutritional and metabolic factors influence cancer development and therapy, as well as foster interdisciplinary discussions and highlight insights that can advance cancer prevention and treatment.

There will be four sessions during the full-day event featuring international experts from academia and leading clinical institutions and covering topics such as the influence of diet on health and cancer, diet-gut interactions, diet and the immune system, as well as translational applications for diet in anticancer therapy.

Presenters

Andrew Chan

Massachusetts General Hospital 

Eran Elinav

Weizmann Institute of Science 

Wendy Garrett

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

Valter Longo

USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology 

Oliver Maddocks

Faeth Therapeutics 

Mandar Muzumdar

Yale School of Medicine 

Alison Ringel

MIT Koch Institute 

Matthew Vander Heiden

MIT Koch Institute 

Walter Willett

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health  

Ömer Yilmaz

MIT Koch Institute

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