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Cancer Institute FORUM SPEAKERS -- Spring 2008

Mondays at Noon in the Sam Walton Auditorium,
10th Floor, Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute
For more information, please contact Sandy Moore at (501) 686-8131

Jan 14	Ivan Borrello, MD The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins	"Marrow infiltrating lymphocytes in myeloma"
Jan 28	Timothy Zhu , PhD University of Pennsylvania Medical School	"Recent advances in photodynamic therapy"
Feb 4	Kevin H. Mayo, PhD Universitty of Mennesota, Minneapolis	"Structure-based design of angiostatic agents that target galectin-1 and inhibit tumor growth"
Feb 11	Masahiro Higuchi, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UAMS	"Mitochondrial DNA determines hormone therapy resistance, epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) and epigenetic changes associated with cancer progression"
Feb 25	Vivek M. Rangnekar,PhD Markey Cancer Center, Univ. of Kentucky	“A multifaceted approach to cancer selective apoptosis”
Mar 3	Jerry Ware, PhD Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, UAMS	"The circulating blood platelet and tumorigenesis"
Mar 10	Amy Fulton , PhD University of Maryland	“Identifying and targeting determinants of breast cancer metastasis”
Mar 17	Christian Naus , PhD University of British Columbia	“Minding the gap: A role for connexins and pannexins in gliomas”
Mar 31	Peter Emanuel, MD and Cromwell Architects Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute	Cancer Institute Expansion
Apr 7	Shmuel Yaccoby, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine and Physiology, UAMS	"Myeloma growth regulation by bone cells"
Apr 14	Patrick A. McKee, MD Warren Medical Research Center, Univ. of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	"A novel proteinase with potential implications in both cancer growth and atherothrombogenesis"
Apr 23	John Shaughnessy , PhD Professor of Medicine, UAMS	“Role of Wnt signaling in bone development and disease: Myeloma as a model"
Apr 28*	Ronald A. DePinho, MD Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center	“Mining and modeling cancer genomes”
May 5	Li-Rong Yu , PhD Director, Center for Proteomics Division of Systems Toxicology, NCTR	"TBA"
May 12	Lilly Yang, MD, PhD Winship Cancer Institute, Emory Univ. School of Medicine	"Multifunctional nanoparticles for cancer detection and therapy"

* Elizabeth Weitzenhoffer Blass Lecture in Cancer Genetics

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