Cancer Currents for November 2007
Invited Presentations and Accomplishments
Ethan Berke, MD, MPH
Member, Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Health and Geography” at the North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Meeting, a Workshop on How to Use Geographic Information Systems in Primary Care Research, Vancouver, Canada.
Charles N. Brenner, PhD
Co-director, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Professor of Genetics and Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School
Presenting “Counting Calories with NAD+: New Biosynthetic Pathways for
Life, Death and Aging” at the 3rd Annual William E.M. Lands Lectureship in Nutritional Biochemistry at the University of Michigan, November 13, 2007
Connie Brinckerhoff, PhD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Nathan Smith Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School
Attending the International Melanoma Congress sponsored by the Society for Melanoma Research in New York City in early November
Charles N. Cole, PhD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Professor of Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Dependence of nuclear pore complex assembly in yeast on the biophysical
properties of the nuclear envelope” at the International Conference on the Mechanisms of Nucleocytoplasmic Transport in Taormina, Sicily, October 27-31, 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
Presenting “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
Presenting “PILAR: From bench to trashcan and back” at the Rheumatology Interdisciplinary Research Rounds, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, November 13, 2007
Presenting “PILAR is necessary for the activation and proliferation of human T cells” at the Meeting of the Sociedad Argentia de Immunologia, Mar del Plata, Argentina, NH, November 22, 2007
Presenting “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.
Barbara Conradt, PhD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Genetics at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “The apoptotic death of the NSM sister cell is directly controlled by a
conserved cell polarity pathway” at Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Cell Death, September 26-30
Allen J. Dietrich, M.D.
Associate Director for Population Sciences, Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
Moderated a three hour forum on "Coordinating Care Across the Cancer Continuum: The Interface of Primary and Oncology Care" at the annual meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The session was led by Stephen Taplin, MD, MPH, a Senior Scientist in the Office of the Associate Director of the Applied Research Program at NCI and included distinguished researchers in primary care, oncology, and information sciences from the US and Canada. NAPCRG is among the largest primary care research organizations in the world with almost 1000 members worldwide.
David Gladstone, ScD
Member, Radiology and Bioengineering Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Medicine (Radiation Biology) at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Assessment of Pancreatic Motion Using Daily Xray Imaging of Biliary Stents as Fiducials During the Course of Radiation Therapy for Localized Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology, co-authors B. Zaki, A. Fanous, S. Gordon, T. Tosteson, M. Pipas, October 2007.
Presented “Prostate Localization Using Serrated Gold Coil Markers” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, co-authors L. Gates, M. Kasibhatla, J. Marshall, J. Seigne, E. Hug, A. Hartford, October 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
Presenting “Why should we care about lipid metabolism in breast tumors?” at the University of Wisconsin Cancer Center Grand Rounds, Madison, Wisconsin, November 7, 2007.
Presenting “Prospects for therapeutic exploitation of lipid metabolism in tumors” at the McArdle Cancer Biology Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, November 7, 2007.
Alexei F. Kisselev, PhD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Assistant Professor at Dartmouth Medical School
Presenting “Different active sites of the proteasome as drug targets in cancer” at the International Symposium on Protein Modification and Degradation in Beijing, China, November 7, 2007.
Murray Korc, MD
Member, Molecular Therapeutics Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Joseph M. Huber Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School
Co-organized and presented at the Seventh Annual Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Symposium, DHMC, Lebanon, NH, October 4-5, 2007
Ardis L. Olson, MD
Member, Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Parental motivation to change their overweight child's eating and activity” at the first annual AHRQ conference in Washinton, DC, October 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 “In vivo EPR” at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 1, 2007.
Presented “In vivo EPR, from animals to human subjects” at the VIIth International Workshop on EPR (ESR) in Biology and Medicine in Krakow, Poland, October 4, 2007.
Sergei Tevosian, PhD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Genetics at Dartmouth Medical School
Received a travel award to serve as a judge for the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), November 7-10, 2007, Austin, Texas.
Gregory Tsongalis, PhD, HCLD, FACB
Member, Molecular Therapeutics Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Pathology at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “New molecular tests in pancreatic cancer” at the 7th Annual Dartmouth Conference on Liver, Pancreas and Biliary Disease, DHMC, Lebanon, NH, October 2007.
Presented “Applications of molecular techniques in the diagnosis of human cancers” at the Diagnostic Genetic Sciences Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 2007.
Presented “Personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics, and the pathologist, at the Department of Pathology, Clinical Pathology Conference, DHMC, Lebanon, NH, October 2007.
Benjamin Williams, PhD
Member, Radiobiology and Bioengineering Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Research Assistant Professor of Radiology at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Electron paramagnetic resonance measurements of brain tissue pO2 during hyperbaric oxygen therapy following stroke” at the Annual Meeting of the Gemi Foundation, Dorinth Sofitel Bayerpost, Munich, Germany, October 30, 2007.
Presented “Clinical in vivo EPR at Dartmouth: Head to toe (plus Rat stroke HBO)” at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, October 26, 2007.
