The Roswell Park Cancer Institute Faculty Forum is a seminar program, which invites prominent researchers to present a lecture in their area of expertise. The Institute has organized a committee of the Institute’s senior scientists and clinicians to select speakers who are recognized for their achievements and stature in basic and clinical cancer research.

In contrast to a departmental seminar, this is an Institute-wide presentation. Senior faculty, postdoctorals, residents, and graduate students with a wide range of scientific/clinical interest and expertise are encouraged to attend. Each presentation will consist of a 50 to 55 minute presentation, followed by 5 or 10 minutes of questions and answers.

Physician participants in this program will be awarded AMA Category 1 credit.  Time: 8:00-9:00 AM Location: Research Studies Center (RSC)

2008
January 14 Cori Lecture Special date and time- 12:30PM	Jacques Pouyssegur, PhD Institute of Signaling, Developmental Biology & Cancer Research, Nice, France	Hypoxia Signaling & Cancer Metabolism: Novel Anticancer Targets	Charles Wenner, PhD
January 23	JoAnn Falletta Music Director, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra	Music & Creativity	Philip McCarthy, MD
February 6	TBA
February 27	TBA
March 5	Laurence N. Kolonel, MD, PhD Center Deputy Director and Director of Epidemiology Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii	Unraveling the Etiology of Prostate Cancer	Christine Ambrosone, PhD
March 26	Timothy J. Eberlein, MD Bixby Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor, Director of The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center	The Future of Surgical Oncology	Stephen Edge, MD
April 9	Shelton Earp, MD Director, UNC Lineberger Comprehensivre Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Director's Conference ACK1 and its Role in Androgen Independent Prostate Cancer	Donald Trump, MD
June 4	William Hait, MD, PhD Senior Vice President, World Wide Head of Oncology Research & Development, Johnson & Johnson	Director's Conference Understanding Malignant Autophagy: A Matter of Life or Death?	Donald Trump, MD
June 11 Weiss Lecture	David Lyden, MD, PhD  Assoc. Professor of Pediatrics, Assoc. Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, Cornell Weill Medical School	Preparing the Soil: The Pre-metastatic Microenvironment	Kenneth Gross, PhD
June 18	Richard G. Moran, PhD Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University	Sigmund Zakrzewski Memorial Lecture From Drug Discovery to Epigenetics of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression	Youcef Rustum, PhD
June 25	Kathleen W. Scotto, PhD Interim Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Sr. Associate Dean of Research, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School	Bloch Memorial Lecture Splice Variants in Cancer: Caffeine as a Tool to Dissect the Mechanism	Youcef Rustum, PhD
July 2	Diane Robins, PhD Professor of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School	Verne Chapman Memorial Lecture Androgen Receptor Variation and Prostate Cancer in Humanized AR Mice	Kenneth Gross, PhD
July 23	George Stark, MD Distinguished Scientist of the Lerner Research Institute and Professor of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University	Use of Validation-Based Promoter Insertion to Discover Novel Regulators of Transcription, Transformation and Drug Resistance	Andrei Gudkov, PhD
August 6	TBA
August 27	Jarrard Goodwin, MD Director, University of Miami/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center	Director's Conference The Unequal Burden of Head & Neck Cancer in the United States	Donald Trump, MD
September 3	Thomas J. Hudson, MD President & Scientific Director, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research	Genome Variation and Cancer	Donald Trump, MD
September10	Eugene Koonin, PhD Senior Investigator, Nat'l Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH	Origin and Early Evolution of Eukaryotes	Andrei Gudkov, PhD
October 8 Director's Conference	Michael Caligiuri, MD Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University	Innate Immunity and the Cancer Connection	Donald Trump, MD
October 22	Alan Price, PhD Price Research Integrity Consultant Experts	Protecting Yourself From Allegations of Research Misconduct	Camille Wicher, Esq, RN, MSN
November 5	TBA
November 12	TBA
November 26	CANCELLED
December 10	Harold Moses, MD Director Emeritus, Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center	Director's Conference TBA