CCRCB Seminar Programme 2010-2011
Date: Thursday, 9 June 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr Gareth J Inman,
University of Dundee
Title of Lecture: “Switching TGF-beta from a tumour suppressor to a tumour promoter"
Date: Thursday, 2 June 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor Jonathon Frampton,
University of Birmingham
Title of Lecture: “c-Myb regulates the balance between normal and aberrant stem cell behaviour in the development of myeloid disease"
Date: Thursday, 19 May 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor Robert Slany,
University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Title of Lecture: “HOX genes in normal and malignant hematopoiesis"
Date: Thursday, 14 April 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor Pascal Meier,
Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty Laboratories, London
Title of Lecture: “Inhibitor of Apoptosis proteins: from caspase inhibitors to modulators of NF-kappaB, inflammation and cancer"
Date: Thursday, 31 March 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr Rob Clarke,
University of Manchester
Title of Lecture: “Targeting stem cell activity in breast cancer”
Date: Thursday, 24 March 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr Rob Bristow,
University of Toronto
Title of Lecture: “Contextual Synthetic Lethality: Studies of Hypoxia and DNA Repair Within the Tumour Microenvironment”
Date: Thursday, 10 March 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr John Stingl,
Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute
Title of Lecture: “Mammary stem and progenitor cells: Understanding the cellular context of breast cancer”
Date: Thursday, 17 February 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor Farzin Farzaneh,
Department of Cancer Studies, Kings College London
Title of Lecture: “An immune edited leukaemia versus a leukaemia edited immune system - prospects for immune therapy of acute myeloid leukaemia”
Date: Thursday, 10 February 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor Alan Stitt,
Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, Queen’s University Belfast
Title of Lecture: “Vascular stem cells and angiogenesis – bad for cancer but good for retinopathy”
Date: Thursday, 3 February 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor Hochhauser,
UCL Cancer Institute, University College London
Title of Lecture: “Optimising combinations of EGFR inhibitors and chemotherapy"
Date: Thursday, 27 January 2011
Seminar Speaker: Professor Liam Murray,
Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast
Title of Lecture: “Risk of oesophageal and other cancers in users of bisphosphonates”
Date: Thursday, 13 January 2011
Seminar Speaker: Dr Nick Leslie,
University of Dundee
Title of Lecture: “The regulation and functions of the PTEN tumour suppressor"
Date: Thursday, 25 November 2010
Seminar Speaker: Professor Jim Johnston,
Centre for Infection and Immunity, Queen's University Belfast
Title of Lecture: “Mischievous Macrophages and their Importance in Cancer"
Date: Thursday, 4 November 2010
Seminar Speaker: Professor Conly Reider,
New York State Department of Health’s Wadworth Center
Title of Lecture: “Spindle poisons (Taxol), the mitotic checkpoint and the importance of direct data"
Date: Thursday, 21 October 2010
Seminar Speaker: Professor Margaret Frame,
Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre
Title of Lecture: “Targeting and imaging invasion, metastasis and drug responses"
Date: Thursday, 14 October 2010
Seminar Speaker: Dr Chris Bakkenist,
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh
Title of Lecture: “ATM kinase inhibition is a monotherapy for breast, lung and pancreatic cancers"
