For Immediate Release
June 17 2005

Roswell Park Hosts Clinical Course on Flow Cytometry

BUFFALO, NY – The principles of flow cytometry will be the focus of the 18th Annual Clinical Course on Flow Cytometry hosted by Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), July 24 – 29, 2005, Research Studies Center, RPCI, Elm & Carlton Street, Buffalo, NY.

Organized by Carleton Stewart, PhD, and Paul K. Wallace, PhD, the course offers hands-on laboratory and computer work as well as lectures on a variety of general and advanced topics.

Participants will gain an understanding of the principles of flow cytometry and up-to-date knowledge of the ways in which flow cytometry can be applied to an array of clinical problems. Examples include leukemia and lymphoma phenotyping, assays to detect fetal cells in maternal blood and analysis of specimens for microbiology.

Guest Faculty are:

• Bruce Davis, MD, Maine Medical Center Research Institute
• Alice Givan, PhD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• Marc G. Golightly, PhD, SI (ASCP), State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Michael Keeney, ART, FIMLS, London Health Sciences Center
• James H. Jett, PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Frank Mandy, PhD, Health Canada, Tunney’s Pasteur, Ottawa, Canada
• John C. Martin, PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Katharine Muirhead, PhD, ScioGro, Inc.
• Norm Purvis, PhD, Esoterix, Inc.
• T. Vincent Shankey, PhD, Beckman Coulter, Inc.
• Howard Shapiro, MD, Private Practice
• Alan Waggoner, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
• Mark Wilder, MS, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Brent Wood, MD, PhD, University of Washington

Clinical Course on Flow Cytometry has been designated by RPCI for a maximum of 40 Category 1 credits toward the American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award. For more information, call (716) 845-5706 or e-mail shannon.supon@roswellpark.org. Complete program information may be viewed online at www.rpciflowcytometry.com.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute, founded in 1898, is the nation’s first cancer research, treatment and education center and is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in Upstate New York. RPCI is a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation’s leading cancer centers. For more information, visit RPCI’s website at www.roswellpark.org, or call 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-887-275-7724) or e-mail askrpci@roswellpark.org.

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