Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
The Masonic Cancer Center held its ninth annual Spring Poster Session and Symposium May 15, 2008 to recognize the contribution of its shared resources to cancer research. The scientists, staff, and facilities of the cancer center's 10 shared resources supported each of the research projects presented at the event.
More than 100 staff, faculty, and students attended the event's oral presentations, and more came to tour the posters displayed throughout the Masonic Cancer Research Building.
(Left to right) Amy Skubitz, Eric Rahrmann, and Ashish Kumar were selected to give oral presentations of the research displayed in their posters.
Ashish Kumar, M.D., Ph.D., presented "MEIS1 is a promising new target for leukemia therapy"
Eric Rahrmann, laboratory of David Largaespada, Ph.D., presented "Systematic approach for prostate cancer gene identification"
Amy Skubitz, Ph.D., presented "Discovery and validation of ovarian cancer biomarkers using Tissue Procurement Facilities samples"





