VASCULAR BIOLOGY SEMINAR

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2008

Speaker:  GUO-FU HU, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pathology
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA 

TITLE: "ANGIOGENIN-INDUCED ANGIOGENESIS AND ITS ROLE IN AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS"

ENDERS AUDITORIUM

4:30 PM

REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE AT 4:15 PM 

Surgery Grand Rounds

Robert Fry, University of Pennsylvania Hospital System
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer: Saving the Seamstress's Daughter
Bornstein Amphitheater, Brigham and Women's Hospital

"TRIM5α:  mediator of intracellular immunity to retroviruses"

Joe Sodroski, MD
Professor of Pathology (HMS)
Department of Cancer Immunology & AIDS (DFCI)

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
presents
 
The 2008 Susan Swerling Lectures
“Cancer Genomics and Epigenomics”

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 2 p.m. in Jimmy Fund Auditorium
 
 
2:00 p.m.
Introduction by host Lynda Chin, MD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

2:30 p.m.
“The Epigenetics and Epigenomics of Cancer Etiology”
Andy Feinberg, MD, MPH,
King Fahd Professor of Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Oncology and Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, New York, NY
 
3:15 p.m.
“Somatic Mutations in Human Cancer; drivers, passengers and broken pavements”
P. Andrew Futreal, PhD,
Co-Director of the Cancer Genome Project and Senior Investigator, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
 
3:55 p.m. Coffee Break

4:25 p.m.
“Discovery of Recurrent Gene Fusions in Prostate Cancer: A New Class of Biomarkers and Therapeutic Targets”
Arul M. Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD,
S. P. Hicks Endowed Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
 
5:05 p.m. Closing remarks