Emerging Frontiers in Cancer Biology and Therapy

Hospital for Sick Children
Monday, September 9, 2013 - 1:00pm to Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 10:00pm
Music Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto

A symposium sponsored by the Garron Family Cancer Centre and the Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children

This two-day symposium will provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss current and future approaches to understanding the molecular mechanisms of cell death in normal and tumor-initiating cells. Leading clinical and basic researchers from Canada and throughout the world will discuss new ideas and novel therapeutic strategies for treating human cancer.

For more information, contact Dr. Brent Derry, Hospital for Sick Children: brent.derry@sickkids.ca

Speakers: Eric Baehrecke, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Brent Derry, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto
Daniel Durocher, Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto
Andy Fraser, University of Toronto
Anne-Claude Gingras, Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto
Douglas Green, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Tennessee
Ricky Johnstone, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Seamus Martin, Trinity College, Ireland
Huseyin Mehmet, Merck Research Laboratories
Marc Meneghini, University of Toronto
William Muller, McGill University, Montreal
Richard Roy, McGill University, Montreal
Vuk Stambolic, University Health Network
Giorgio Stassi, University of Palermo, Italy
Michael Taylor, Hospital for Sick Children

Host: 
Dr. Brent Derry