Cancer Currents for September 2007
Invited Presentations and Accomplishments
Angeline S. Andrew, PhD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Assistant Professor, Community & Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
Promoted to Assistant Professor.
Michael L. Beach, MD, PhD
Member Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Anesthesiology and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School
Promoted to Professor.
Charles N. Brenner, PhD
Co-Director Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Genetics and Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School
Promoted to Professor.
Bernard F. Cole, PhD
Member Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School
Promoted to Professor.
E. Dale Collins, MD
Member, Cancer Control Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director, Comprehensive Breast Oncology Program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Associate Professor of Surgery (Plastic-Reconstructive Surgery) & of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School
Selected as Fellow in 2007-2008 Class of the Hedwig van Amerigen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program, 2007
Included in the 2007-2008 Best Doctors in America Database, 2007-2008 61st and 62nd Editions of Who’s Who in America, and the 2007 America’s Top Doctors for Caner, Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd
Jose R Conejo-Garcia, MD, PhD
Member, Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Elimination of Dendritic Cells Impairs Ovarian Cancer Progression” at the Idea Reginal Cobre meeting, Burlington, VT, August 17, 2007
Duane Compton, PhD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Professor of Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Mechanisms of Chromosome Instability in Human Tumor Cell Lines” at the Gordon Research Conference on Motile and Contractile Systems, Colby-Sawyer College,
New London, NH, July 8-13, 2007
James DiRenzo, PhD
Member Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School
Promoted to Associate Professor.
William R. Green, PhD
Member Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Dartmouth Medical School
Appointed by the Council of the American Association of Immunologists as the Chair of the Committee on Public Affairs (has served as a member of the committee since 2004)
Elected to the position of Councilor for 2007-2010 for the American Society of Microbiology and Immunology Chairs
Henry Higgs, PhD
Member Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Biochemistry at Dartmouth Medical School
Promoted to Associate Professor.
William Kinlaw, MD
Member, Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology) at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “S14 in Normal and Malignant Mammary Gland" at the Gordon Research Conference on Mammary Gland Biology, Newport, Rhode Island, July 2007
Paul M. Meaney, PhD
Member, Radiobiology and Bioengineering Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering
Presented “Functional Microwave Imaging: Clinical and Phantom Results” at the URSI Commission B, International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Ottawa, Canada, July 2007, co-authors Zhou T, Fanning MW, Geimer SA, Paulsen KD
Presented “Microwave Imaging: Breast Cancer Detection and Thermal Imaging in Conjunction with Focused Ultrasound Therapy" Guest presentation at the Carleton University Physics Department, Ottawa, Canada, 2007, co-author Paulsen KD
Kenneth Meehan, MD
Member Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology) at Dartmouth Medical School
Promoted to Professor.
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 “Symbolic Modeler: Open-Source Software for Applied Genetic Programming in Human Genetics" for the Workshop on Open-Source Software for Applied Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (SoftGEC-2007), London, England, July 7, 2007
Presented “Bioinformatics,” at the 2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), London, England, July 8, 2007
Presented "Quantitative Biology in New England,” at the Northeast Regional IDeA Meeting, Burlington, Vermont, August 17, 2007
Presented "New strategies for MDR analysis of epistasis,” Celera Diagnostics, Alameda, California, August 27, 2007 (Host: David Ross)
Presented "A role for high-performance computing in the genetic analysis of common human Diseases,” at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, August 28, 2007 (Host: Ed Turano)
Founding Associate Editor for Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications
Program Chair, Biological Applications Track, 2007 ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), London, England
Founder, Organizer and Chair, 2007 Workshop on Open-Source Software for Applied Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SoftGEC'07), London, England
Douglas J. Robertson, MD, MPH
Member Epidemiology and Chemoprevention Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School
Promoted to Associate Professor.
Alan Schned, MD
Member, Cancer Epidemiology & Chemoprevention Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Professor of Pathology at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “The Effect of Chronic Arsenic Exposure from Drinking Water on the Pathologic Characteristics of Urothelial Tumors in a Non-Selected Patient Population with Bladder Cancer” at the XXIst European Congress of Pathology in Istanbul, Turkey, in September 2007, Co-authors are: Schned AR, Andrew AS, Marsit CJ, Morris JS, Zens MS, Kelsey KT, Karagas MR.
Sergei G. Tevosian, PhD
Member Cancer Mechanisms Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Genetics at Dartmouth Medical School
Promoted to Associate Professor.
Gregory J. Tsongalis, PhD, HCLD, FACB
Member, Molecular Therapeutics Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director, Molecular Pathology and Associate Professor, Department of Pathology at Dartmouth Medical School
Received the 2007, Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Presented “STAT Molecular Testing: From Infectious Diseases to Oncology” at the New England On Demand Molecular Diagnostics Symposium, Framingham, MA, July 2007
Presented “Overview of Molecular Technologies for Pharmacogenomics” at the Interactive Workshop, AACC Annual meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2007
Presented “Molecular Pathology Methods” at the AACC University, AACC Annual meeting, San Diego, CA, July 2007
Edward Usherwood, PhD
Member Immunology and Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Dartmouth Medical School
Promoted to Associate Professor.
Matthew P. Vincenti, PhD
Member, Molecular Therapeutics Research Program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School
Presented “Metalloproteinase Gene Regulation in Arthritis” at the Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, August 15, 2007
