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SYMPOSIUM:Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

"Stem Cells and Cancer"

Thursday May 22 (afternoon) & Friday May 23, 2008 (full day)
Robertson Auditorium, UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center

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Program

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Thursday May 22nd

1.00-1.10PM

Introduction by Frank Mc Cormick (Director, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center)

1.10-3.10PM

Session 1: Stem Cells in Normal Development - Part I
Chair: Frank McCormick

3.10-3.40PM

Coffee break

3.40-5.40PM

Session 2: Stem Cells in Normal Development - Part II
Chair: Emmanuelle Passegué

5.45-7.45PM

Reception and mixer

7.45PM-

Speaker Dinner

Friday May 23rd

8.30-10.00AM:

Session 3: Origin of Cancer Stem Cells
Chair: Martin McMahon

  • Michael F. Clarke
    "Self Renewal in Normal and Cancer Stem Cells"
  • Max S. Wicha
    "Breast Cancer Stem Cells: Implications for Prevention and Therapy"
  • Peter Dirks
    "Stem Cell Hierarchies in Brain Cancers from Genetically Engineered Mice"

10.00-10.20AM:

Coffee break

10.20AM-12.20PM

Session 4: Stem Cells in Mouse Models of Human Cancer
Chair: Bill Weiss

  • Ronald A. DePinho
    "Modeling and Mining Cancer Genomes"
  • Owen N. Witte
    "Prostate Stem Cells and Cancer Development"
  • Zena Werb
    "Cancer Stem Cells and the Cancer Stem Cell Niche: Do They Exist?"
  • Carla Kim
    "Examining tem Cell Biology in Normal Lung and Lung Cancer"

12.20-1.10PM:

Buffet lunch

1.10-2.40PM:

Session 5: Stem Cells and Their Microenvironment
Chair: Gabrielle Bergers

2.40-3.00PM:

Coffee break

3.00-4.30PM

Session 6: Cancer Stem Cell Targeted Therapies
Chair: Neil Shah

  • Jeremy Rich
    "Learning from the Brain: Cancer Stem Cells in Therapeutic Resistance and "as Molecular Targets"
  • Jeffrey Rosen
    "Stem/progenitor Cells in the Etiology and Treatment of Breast Cancer"
  • Fred de Sauvage
    "Targeting Morphogenic Pathways in Cancer"

4.30-6.00PM:

Panel Discussion: A Critical Evaluation of the Role of Stem Cells in Cancer Initiation, Progression, and Targets of Therapy
Chair: Kevin Shannon

 

 

UC Discovery Grant

Presented in association with the the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine and the UC Discovery Grant.

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