Jurassic Group

Science Decade Y2K9 - Sponsored by the Jurassic Society at RPCI

To be or not to be Future Nobel Worthy topics?

Lectures will take place Tuesdays at Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Gaylord-Cary Theatre / Meeting Room 1st Floor, Research Studies Center

Refreshments for Trainees: 11:30 - Noon

Seminar: Noon - 1:00 pm

January 27  Garth Anderson, PhD

            How tumors arise and why non-surgical cures are so difficult to

            achieve: the central role of genomic instability in cancer.

February 3  Thomas Dougherty, PhD

            Discovery and Development of Photodynamic Therapy at Roswell Park

            leading to FDA Approval for Cancer Treatment

February 10 Julian Ambrus, Sr. MD, PhD

            Therapeutic potential of double stranded RNA derivatives and other

            new agents

February 17 John Pauly, PhD

            Tobacco, chronic inflammation and cancer

February 24 Charles Wenner, PhD

            Cell signaling and cancer-Possible targets for therapy

March 3     Protul Shrikant, PhD

            Inflammation and Cancer  ( Note:  Hohn Auditorium)

March 17    Thomas Tomasi, MD, PhD

            The Role of MicroRNAs in Immune Regulation

March 24    David Goodrich, PhD

            Telomeres, Senescence, and Cancer.

March 31    Wendy Huss, PhD

            Commonalities between cancer stem cells and benign adult stem cells

April 7    William Burhans, PhD

            DNA Replication Stress, Cancer and Aging  (Note: Hohn Auditorium)