Keynote Speaker
Oliver Bogler, PhD
Educated in England, Oliver came to the US for postdoc, and has held faculty positions most recently at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His research focused on EGFR signaling and novel platinum compounds in glioblastoma. At MD Anderson, he served as Vice President for Global Academic Programs and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and stewarded MD Anderson’s education mission for 1,700 faculty and more than 2,000 fellows and students. After a stint at the ECHO Institute at the University of New Mexico, he joined the NCI as Director of the Center for Cancer Training in 2020. There he supported the thousand or so scholars in the NCI’s intramural research program and oversaw over $200M in fellowships, career development, cancer research education and training grants. In June 2025, he left government service to lead the Night Science Institute, a non-profit that champions a cultural shift in science by training researchers to embrace the creative Night Science process as an essential complement to rigorous hypothesis testing. He also coaches scientists and consults on grants. https://linktr.ee/oliverbogler