Diet and Metabolism in Cancer
Thursday, June 18, 2026
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
MIT Huntington Hall (10-250)
Registration coming soon.
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