Origins of Cancer Symposium

Sponsored by:

metro health hospital      foundation for advanced cancer studies

Presented by:

van andel institute

ORIGINS OF CANCER SYMPOSIUM

 In 1859, Charles Darwin published the Origin of Species that has since been recognized not only as a seminal scientific work, but also a landmark of modern thought that has far-reaching consequences. For cancer researchers, the principle of Natural Selection in which variation that confers a survival advantage will be inherited by offspring has itself been adapted to explain the dynamic cellular changes that occur during tumor progression.

The mission of the Foundation for Advanced Cancer Studies Inc. (FACS) is to accelerate and facilitate the flow of cancer research information from the laboratory to scientists, clinicians, and the public and to promote support for scientists working in basic cancer research laboratories.

Origins of Cancer is a one-day symposium sponsored by the Foundation for Advanced Cancer Studies and presented by the Van Andel Institute which brings together medical and research experts from around the country to discuss the origins of cancer.

The Foundation for Advanced Cancer Studies (FACS) would like to thank everyone for their participation in the 2010 Origins of Cancer Symposium. With over three hundred and fifty registered guests, the second annual Origins of Cancer Symposium was a tremendous success. Thank you again to all of our invited speakers and everyone who participated.

2010 Speakers

Opening Remarks by George Vande Woude, Ph.D.
Co-Organizers: Jennifer Bromberg-White, Ph.D., and Brendan Looyenga, Ph.D.

Janet Rowley, M.D., University of Chicago
Title: “MicroRNA: the new kid on the block”

Pelayo Correa, M.D., Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Title: “The etiology of gastric cancer”

Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D., National Human Genome Research Institute
Title: “Genetics, genomes, model organisms, and cancer”

Martin McMahon, Ph.D., UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Title: “Tumor initiation by oncogenic KRAS or BRAF”

Stuart Orkin, M.D., Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Title: “Regulatory networks in stem cells and cancer”

Margaret R. Spitz, M.D. M.P.H., M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Title: “Lung cancer risk and outcome: lessons learned from epidemiology”

Janet S. Butel, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Title: “Polyomavirus SV40: an infectious agent of cancer”

Joe Gray, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: "A systems genomics approach to personalized cancer management"

Please stay tuned for information on the
2011 Origins of Cancer Symposium