You Are Invited

The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania will host its fourteenth annual Scientific Symposium and Academic Retreat on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at Lobby and Auditorium of the Biomedical Research Building. This day-long event will feature lectures by nationally recognized cancer researchers, as well as a poster session. Also see the Call for Posters.

Agenda

8:30 am – 9:00 am
Registration and Breakfast

9:00 am – 9:30 am
State of the Abramson Cancer Center
Craig B Thompson, MD
Director of Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Cancer Biology Department
Scientific Director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute

9:30 am – 10:30 am
Clinic and Community-based Approaches for Cancer Prevention and Control in African Americans
Chanita Hughes Halbert, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania

10:30 am – 10:45 am
Break and Poster Viewing

10:45 am – 11:45 am
Shh Pathway Inhibitors as Anti-cancer Agents in Medulloblastoma
Tom Curran, PhD, FRS
Deputy Scientific Director, Joseph Stokes Jr. Research Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

11:45 am – 1:00 pm
Lunch break and Poster Viewing

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Control of Cell Cycle Checkpoints by SCF Ubiquitin Ligases
Michele Pagano, MD
May Ellen and Gerald Jay Ritter Professor of Oncology, Department of Pathology and NYU
Cancer Institute New York University School of Medicine

2:00 pm – 2:10 pm
Poster Awards Announcement

2:10 pm – 3:10 pm
The VHL Tumor Suppressor Gene: Oxygen Sensing and Beyond
William G. Kaelin, Jr, MD
Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston, MA

3:10 pm – 4:30 pm
Attended Poster Session & Reception
Location: Lobby, Biomedical Research Building II/III

Deadline

Registration: March 9, 2007