For Immediate Release
October 7, 2005

 

Roswell Park to host International Selenium Workshop

 

BUFFALO, NY - Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) will host an International Selenium Workshop, October 14 - 15, Research Studies Center, RPCI, Elm & Carlton Street, Buffalo, NY. Registration begins Friday at 8 am.

Organized by Youcef Rustum, PhD, Senior Vice President for Science Administration, and Clement Ip, PhD, Department of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, RPCI, the workshop will offer participants insights into therapeutic and current scientific research of selenium. Presentations will evaluate pre-clinical and clinical use of selenium as a selective modulator of the anticancer activity and toxicity of anticancer drugs.

Guest faculty and their presentations are:

 

• Andrie Gudkov, PhD, DSc, Cleveland Clinic Foundation - “Can p53 be a Target for Cancer Prophylactics?”
• Michael Jameson, PhD, Regional Cancer Center, Waikato Hospital - “Selenium/Anitcancer drugs: Proposed studies”
• Simon Joel, PhD, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital - “Selenium in haematological malignancies - Clinical and laboratory studies”
• Vladimir Kolenko, MD, PhD, Fox Chase Cancer Center - “Methylseleninic Acid Sensitizes Prostate Cancer Cells by TRAIL-mediated Apoptosis”
• David McCormick, PhD, Life Sciences Operation, IIT Research Institute - “Preclinical Toxicology of Cancer Therapeutics: Regulatory Hurdles and Scientific Challenge”
• Lorna Rodriguez-Rodriguez, MD, PhD, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey - “Prevention of Drug Resistance by Selenite: A Phase I Clinical Trial of Selenium in combination with Carboplatin/Paclitaxel in Women with Gynecologic Cancers”
• Kurt Schumacher, PhD, Biosyn Pharmaceutical Company, Heidelburg - “Cytotoxic Properties of Selenium, Synergism with Anticancer Agents”
• Martin Smith, PhD, Indiana University Cancer Center - “Tissue-selective DNA Repair Response to Selenium”

 

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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