NCI consortium presents mouse-model symposium June 28 in Pelton

Brief

The Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium (MMHCC) will hold its annual summer meeting in Seattle. A multidisciplinary team of National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded scientists, the MMHCC is working to derive and validate mouse models of human cancers, and will sponsor a symposium on June 28, 8 a.m.-noon, in Pelton Auditorium. The symposium, entitled "Mouse Models for Human Cancers: New Models, New Opportunities," will open with remarks from Drs. Norm Greenberg and Jim Roberts. The symposium will also be available via a simultaneous live Web cast at www.fhcrc.org/MMHCC. The schedule is as follows:

• 8-8:15 a.m., Arrival
• 8:15-8:30 a.m., Introductory remarks
• 8:30-9 a.m., Dr. William Grady, "Modeling the Initiative and Progress of Colon Cancer from Ademomas to Setastatic Disease"
• 9-9:30 a.m., Dr. Jim Olsen, "Targeted Therapies and Imagining in the SmoA Meduloblastoma Model"
• 9:30-10 a.m., Dr. Amanda Paulovich, "Assessing Biomarker Discovery Technologies Using Mouse Models of Human Cancer"
• 10-10:30 a.m., Dr. Sunil Hingorani, "Mouse Models of Preinvasive, Invasive and Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer"
• 10:45-11:15 a.m., Dr. Chris Kemp, "Autochthonous Tumor Models to Study the Role of p53 In Therapy Response"
• 11:15-11:45 a.m., Dr. Jim Roberts, "Cyclin Dependent Kinases and Cancer"
• 11:45-noon, Closing discussions

Genetically engineered mouse models are a very valuable research tool providing the cancer-research community opportunities for pre-clinical development and assessment of new therapeutic, preventive, early detection and diagnostic-imaging strategies.

The consortium and the NCI work together to implement workshops and symposia, to provide information about the models and related technology, and to plan for distribution of the validated mouse models to the cancer-research community.

The MMHCC, the National Institutes of Health and NCI are sponsoring the symposium, supported by a gift from Amgen.

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Consortium symposium in Pelton today

The Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium will host a symposium today, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., in Pelton Auditorium. The morning session focuses on tumor-stem cells, and the afternoon session focuses on mestatisis. The presenters are from research facilities across the country and Munich, Germany.

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