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December 18, 2007
Cancer Center Update is sent to Cancer Center members and staff every Tuesday at 10 a.m. Please submit items to Sandi Sherman, sherm019@umn.edu, by noon the previous Friday.
Note: This is the final issue of Cancer Center Update for 2007. The next issue will be published on January 8, 2008.
In This Issue
Cancer Center Program Meetings
Funding News and Opportunities
Today's Cancer Center Seminar
Tuesday, December 18, 2007, 12-1 p.m., 450 CCRB
Modeling pancreatic tumorigenesis in the mouse
Brian Lewis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Program in Gene Function and Expression, Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Host: Ashok Saluja, Ph.D.
A peek at next week's seminar:
No seminar is scheduled due to the holidays. The Masonic Cancer Center Seminar series will resume on January 8, 2008.
Visit the Cancer Center Seminar Series calendar for a complete schedule of lectures.
News
Cancer Center, TTURC Web site maintenance December 19
The Web server holding the Masonic Cancer Center and the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) Web sites is moving to a new location Wednesday, December 19. This move may cause the Web sites to be inaccessible for a limited time during the morning. If you have any questions, please contact Gina Kennedy, kenne069@umn.edu or 612-626-0410.
Members in the news
Andrew Flood, Ph.D., Prevention and Etiology Program, was quoted in news reports by ABC News, Medical News Today, Reuters, and other media outlets about his study that found women with diabetes are 1.5 times more likely to develop colorectal cancer than those who do not have diabetes. His study was selected for a media briefing presentation December 7 at the American Association of Cancer Research's Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference in Philadelphia. Read more on the Web site.
Jeannette Zinggeler Berg, MD/PhD student in the laboratory of Sharon Murphy, Ph.D., was interviewed by Elsevier Publications about her study that found African Americans may experience higher nicotine levels per cigarette. The study was selected for a media briefing presentation December 7 at the American Association of Cancer Research's Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference in Philadelphia. Read more on the Web site.
Douglas Yee, M.D., Cancer Center director, was featured on KMSP-TV/Fox 9 December 12 in a report that some women with breast cancer have a better outcome if given a less harsh chemotherapy, and that a new gene test can help predict which women need chemotherapy for treatment of breast cancer.
Navneet Majhail, M.D., Cancer Center member, was quoted in Doctor's Guide about his study that found cord blood enables stem cell transplant in older patients without matched related donors, presented last week at the annual meeting of American Society of Hematology. The title of his talk was "Reduced intensity allogeneic transplantation in patients older than 55 years: Unrelated umbilical cord blood is safe and effective for patients without a matched related donor." A list of presentations given by Cancer Center researchers at the ASH annual meeting December 8-12 in Atlanta is available on the Web site.
Beth Virnig, Ph.D., Prevention and Etiology Program member, was quoted in MedPage Today about her study that found the proportion of patients receiving radiation therapy after breast conservation surgery has decreased with uncertain long-term consequences. Virnig presented the results of her study at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium on December 16.
Cancer Center members join University of Minnesota Physicians board of directors
Douglas Yee, M.D., Cancer Center director, and Edward Cheng, M.D., Cancer Center member, were recently elected to faculty seats on the University of Minnesota Physicians board of directors for three-year terms.
Education and Events
Cancer Biology Journal Club
The Cancer Biology Journal Club is on break, and will resume on January 9.
The Cancer Biology Journal Club is held every Wednesday. For more information contact Sonja Johnson (john4368@umn.edu) or Rachel Bergerson (sapl0005@umn.edu).
Pediatric Cancer and Blood Diseases Conference
Wednesday, December 19, 2007, 4 p.m., 450 CCRB
Case Presentation: Ewing’s Sarcoma
Marcy Ellwein, M.D., Fellow, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT
Cancer Center Program Meetings
Genetic Mechanisms of Cancer Program meeting
Thursday, December 20, 2007, 4-5 p.m., 3-110 Moos Tower
Teaching an old dog new tricks: Application of anti-cancer drugs for the treatment of retroviral infections
Christine Clouser, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Mansky lab, Institute for Molecular Virology
For a complete schedule, visit the Web site.
Cancer Biology Research Club
Friday, December 21, 2007, 3:30-4:30 p.m., 450 CCRB
No meeting due to holidays and semester break. Meetings will resume on January 18, 2008.
For a complete schedule, visit the Web site.
BMT Conference
Monday, December 24, 2007, 1:15-2:15 p.m., 450 CCRB
No conference due to holiday.
For a complete schedule, visit the Web site.
Funding News and Opportunities
International Clinical Research Fellows Program (ICRF)
Fogarty International Center/NCI
Deadline: December 31, 2007, 4 p.m. EST
Funding: $45,000/yr stipend plus miscellaneous fees
The ICRF Program supports one year of mentored clinical research in a developing country setting for U.S. citizens or permanent residents in either post-residency clinical fellowships or in other health-related postdoctoral programs in oncology, including radiation therapy, physiology, heart, lung, and blood research and other cancer-related issues. It is sponsored by the Fogarty International Center and several collaborating institutes and centers at the National Institutes of Health and managed by Vanderbilt University, with fiscal support from the Office of AIDS Research, National Cancer Institute, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Visit the Funding News & Opportunities Web page to see listings previously published in Update.