Cancer Currents for December 2007
Invited Presentations and Accomplishments
Charles N. Brenner, PhD
Director ,Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School
Was named to the 2008 American Federation for Aging Research National Scientific Advisory Council.
Lynn Butterly, MD
Member, Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented with the Singer Award from the American Cancer Society, November 15, 2007.
Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, MD
Member, Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Elimination of dendritic cells abrogates ovarian cancer progression” at the Meeting of the Sociedad Argentina de Immunologia, Mar del Plata, Argentina, NH, November 23, 2007.
Presented “PILAR is necessary for the activation and proliferation of human T cells” at the Meeting of the Sociedad Argentian de Immunologia, Mar del Plata, Argentina, NH, November 22, 2007.
Presented “PILAR: From bench to trashcan and back” at the Rheumatology Interdisciplinary Research Grand Rounds, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Presented “Re-programming anti-tumor immune responses by modulating gene expression with nanoparticles” at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Pharmacology Seminar Series, Philadelphia, PA, November 5, 2007.
Ursula Gibson, PhD
Member, Radiobiology and Bioengineering Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering
Presented “Nanomagnetic vortex states” at the University of Vermont, School of Engineering Seminar Series, November 16, 2007.
William B. Kinlaw, MD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) at Dartmouth Medical School
Visiting Professor at the Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI, November 2007.
Presented “Lipid metabolism as a therapeutic target in breast cancer: Roles of S14 and lipoprotein lipase” at the McArdle Cancer Biology Seminar, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, Madison, WI.
Presented “Targeting Lipogenesis in Cancer” at the Cancer Center Grand Rounds, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine Cancer Center, Madison, WI.
Jason Moore, PhD
Member, Cancer Epidemiology & Chemoprevention Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Genetics and of Community & Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Genome-wide genetic analysis using computational intelligence” at the New England Biolabs, Ipswitch, MA, November 1, 2007 and at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, AZ, November 30, 2007.
Nancy Speck, PhD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Professor of Biochemistry and James J. Carroll Professor in Oncology at Dartmouth Medical School
Co-organized a meeting for the Foundation des Treilles on “Stem cells of the blood/vascular system: Emergence and self-renewa,l” November 6-10, 2007.
Harold M. Swartz, MD, PhD
Co-director Radiobiology and Bioengineering Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Professor of Radiology, of Physiology and of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Nuclear threats to healthcare and national security in virtual medicine and cybercare” at the Virtual Medicine and Cybercare course, November 19, 2007.
Presented “Clinical applications of in vivo EPR” at the BRaIN Imaging Center Annual EAC and General Meeting, University of New Mexico, November 29, 2007.
Gregory Tsongalis, PhD, HCLD, FACB
Member, Molecular Therapeutics Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Pathology at Dartmouth Medical School
The Molecular Pathology Laboratory and Pathology Translational Research Program presented 11 posters at the annual meeting of the Association for Molecular Pathology (Nov 7-10, in Los Angeles,CA) including the following oncology related topics:
- Assessing neo-adjuvant treatment response using pathway-specific genomic correlates with morphologic and imaging signatures. Schwab MC, Wells WA, Pogue BW, Meaney PM, Hartov A, Weaver JB, Paulsen KD, Kaufman PA, Tsongalis GJ.
- A Novel Real Time Reverse Transcriptase – Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay in Evaluation of Breast Cancer Sentinel Lymph Nodes. Tafe LJ, Schwab MC, Rizzo EJ, Lefferts JA, Wells WA, Tsongalis GJ.
- Development of a Real-time PCR Assay to Detect the BRAF V600E Mutation in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Samples Obtained by Fine Needle Aspiration. Joel A. Lefferts, Constantinos T. Spyris, Mary C. Schwab, Vijayalakshmi Padmanabhan, and Gregory J. Tsongalis.
- Analysis of pancreatic microRNA biomarker candidates in fine needle aspirates preserved in RNARetain: a pilot study. Hayward S. Edmunds, Anna E. Szafranska, Stuart R. Gordon, Martina Doleshal, Richard J. Barth Jr., Edward J. Gutmann, Arief A. Suriawinata, Murray Korc, Emmanuel Labourier, Gregory J. Tsongalis.
- Quality Control and the Xpert® BCR-ABL Monitor Assay. Claudine L. Bartels, Prabjhot Kaur, Norm Levy, Gregory J. Tsongalis.
Charles Wira, PhD
Member, Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Professor of Physiology at Dartmouth Medical School
Discussant at the Mucosal Immunity and HIV/AIDS Vaccines, Annecy, France, October 28-30, 2007.
