Whitehead Institute/Merck Symposium:
The Tumor Microenvironment

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

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Cancer research devoted most of its energies over the past three decades on unraveling the control mechanisms within cancer cells that govern tumor behavior. This emphasis has changed dramatically in recent years: It is now recognized that a variety of recruited normal host cells, which collectively form the tumor microenvironment, are critical regulators of tumor biology. Leaders of this rapidly expanding research area will describe the complex dynamics operating between the tumor and recruited stroma that govern processes such as cancer cell proliferation, invasiveness, metastasis, angiogenesis, and the course of clinical cancer progression.

The program includes the following speakers:

• Dr. Patrick O. Brown, Department of Biochemistry & Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Dr. Kornelia Polyak, Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Dr. Gabriele Burgers, Neill H. and Linda S. Brownstein Endowed Chair in Brain Tumor Research, University of California San Francisco
• Dr. Raghu Kalluri, Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Dr. M. Celeste Simon, Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• Dr. Neil Bhowmick, Assistant Professor Department of Urologic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Dr. Michael Karin, Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego
• Dr. Joan Massague, Chairman, Cancer Biology & Genetics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

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For more information, contact Christine Hickey at 617-258-5158 or hickey@wi.mit.edu.

Last updated February 25, 2008.