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Program
New Targets and Delivery Systems in Cancer Diagnosis and
Treatment Monday, March 5, 2007
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Welcome |
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Albert Deisseroth, MD, PhD |
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Nagy Habib, ChM, FRCS |
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Jan Schnitzer, MD
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Ralph Weichselbaum, MD |
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PLENARY KEY NOTE ADDRESS: |
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The IKK Complex: Connecting Inflammation to Cancer
Michael Karin, PhD, University of California, San Diego, CA |
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SESSION I: TUMOR INFLAMMATION,
PROGENITOR CELLS AND THE IMMUNE RESPONSE
SESSION CHAIR: INDER VERMA |
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Hematopoietic Precursers of Vasculogensis
Shanhin Raffii, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University & Georgia
Tech, New York, NY
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NOVEL Cancer Models Using Lentiviral
Vectors
Inder Verma, PhD, The Salk Insitute, La Jolla, CA
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| 10:00 |
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Coffee Break |
| 10:30 |
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Adoptive Cellular Immunotherapy for Solid
Cancers: Limitations and Future Opportunities
Marianne Hokland, MD, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| 11:00 |
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Suppressor T-cells
David Klatzmann, MD, PhD, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière,
Paris France |
| 11:30 |
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Auto Immune Disease
Martin Weigert, PhD, Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology, University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Harnessing the Immune System to Treat Minimal
Residual Disease
Christopher Contag, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford,
CA |
| 12:30 |
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Lunch |
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SESSION II: IMAGING TUMORS AND
THEIR MICROENVIRONMENT AND TARGETS
SESSION CHAIR: HARVEY HERSHMAN |
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New Targets in the Tumor Stroma for Cancer
Therapy
Ralph Reisfeld, PhD, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA |
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Proteomic Mapping and Imaging of Endothelium
for Penetration into Solid Tumor
Jan E. Schnitzer, M.D., Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego,
CA |
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Imaging of Signal Transduction Pathways and Stem Cells
Juri Gelovani, MD, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer
Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX |
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Coffee Break |
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Biomedical Nanotechnology for In-vivo
Tumor Targeting and Imaging
Shuming Nie, PhD, Emory University and Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA |
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Proteolytic Pathways as Therapeutic Targets in Cancer
Bonnie Sloane, PhD, Wayne State University of Medicine, Detroit,
MI |
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Molecular Imaging of Cancer Progression &
Cancer Gene Therapy
Harvey Hershman, PhD, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA, Los Angeles,
CA |
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VISA to Cancer Therapy
Mien-Chie Hung, PhD, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston, TX |
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LATE BREAKING ORAL ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS |
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Selective Ablation of Metastatic Disease with
Integrin avB3 Targeted Nanoparticle Drug Delivery
Bharat Majeti, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, San Diego, CA |
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A Novel Target for the Development of Ovarian Cancer
Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Kathleen Mulder, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA |
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Apoptosis Improves the Distribution and Efficacy
of Replication-Competent Herpes Simplex Virus in Solid Tumor
Satoshi Nagano, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
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Dissecting the Oncogenic Mechanism of
Cancer Specific Mutant P13K
Li Zhao, The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA |
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Adjourn to Welcome Reception |
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Tuesday, March
6, 2007
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Drugging the Cancer Genome: Integrating
Molecular Targets and Biomarkers
Paul Workman, Cancer Research UK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, The
Institute for Cancer Research, Sutton UK
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SESSION III: NEW TARGETS IN CANCER
CELLS SESSION CHAIR: DOUGLAS GREEN
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Intracellular ROS
and Bcl-2 Family: Friends or Foes
Shazib Pervaiz , M.D, PhD, National University of Singapore
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Passenger Proteins and the Regulation
of the Cell Cycle
Robert Margolis, PhD, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA |
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Mitochondria, p53, and Apoptosis
Douglas R. Green, PhD, St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN
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Coffee Break |
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Phenotypes Override Genotypes in Normal
and Malignant Breast Tissue
Mina Bissell, PhD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
CA
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Ubiquitin-Dependent Proteolysis and Cell
Cycle Control
Charles Spruck, PhD, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA |
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DNA Damage and p21 Regulation
Arun Fotedar, MD, PhD, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA |
12:00 pm
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Role of Retroelement RNAs in Cancer
Alan Garen, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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Lunch |
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SESSION IV: MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR
TARGETING, NANOMEDICINE AND VECTOR THERAPY SESSION CHAIR: MINA BISSEL
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Dancing with uPAR: Interaction
of Multiple Ligands with the Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor
(uPAR)
Choreographs Tumor Progression
Andrew Mazar, Attenuon, LLC, San Diego, CA |
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Systemic Delivery of Oncolytic
Viruses for Virotherapy
Leonard Seymour, BSc, PhD, Oxford University, Oxford, UK |
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Angiogenesis Inhibition by Stabilizing the DFG/P-Loop
Interaction in Raf
David Cheresh, PhD, University of California, San Diego, CA |
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Coffee Break |
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Targeted Cancer Gene Therapy with a Novel
Activity of Tumor Tissue Penetration
Chae-OK Yun, PhD, Yonsei University of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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Vector Targeting of Cancer
David Curiel, MD, PhD, University of Alabama, Birmingham |
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Molecular Therapy of Breast Cancer
Rakesh Kumar, PhD, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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Molecular Basis of Cell Fate Decision in Response
to Genotoxic Stress: Live or Die
Sam Lee, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
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LATE BREAKING ORAL ABSTRACT
PRESENTATIONS
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p14ARF/Topoisomerase I Complex Regulates Chemosensitivity
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Serine Phosphrylation Dependent Manner
Keya Bandyopadhyay, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA |
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Vector Vaccination Can Induce Potent
Immune Response
When Combined With Vector Targeted Chemotherapy
Hakan Akbulut, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara,
Turkey
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EGFR/Src Kinase-Dependent Pathway of Tumor Cell
Invasion and Metastasis
Jill Ricono, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, San Diego, CA
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Targeting Tumors Overexpressing EGFRs by Polymeric
Nanotherapeutics
Armed with Specific Monoclonal Antibodies and Doxorubicin
Tomas Mrkvan, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic |
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Adjourn to Wine and Cheese Reception and Poster Viewing
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Wednesday, March
7, 2007
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KEY NOTE ADDRESS:
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Targeting Immunoregulatory Cells as Novel Cancer Immunotherapy
Tyler Curiel, MD, San Antonio Cancer Institute, San Antonio,Texas |
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SESSION V: EMERGING STRATEGIES
FOR CANCER DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT SESSION CHAIR: RALPH WEICHSELBAUM
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Discovery of Novel Tumor Targets in Gynecologic
Cancer
Je Ho Lee, MD, Professor, Samsung Cancer Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul,
Korea
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Tumor Genotype Determines the Efficacy of Genetically
Modified HSV-1 in Experimental Tumors
Ralph Weichselbaum, MD, D.K. University of Chicago Hospital, Chicago,
IL
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Vector Vaccines for Cancer
Albert Deisseroth, MD, PhD, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA |
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Virotherapy for Multiple Myeloma
Stephen Russell, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
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Advances in Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant
Richard Champlin, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston,
TX |
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Targeted and Shielded Adenovectors
Imre Kovesdi, PhD, VectorLogics, Birmingham, AL |
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Vector Vaccine for AML
Farzin Farzaneh, PhD, The Rayne Institute, King's College London, UK |
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Gene and Stem Cell Therapy
Nagy Habib, ChM, FRCS, Imperial College London, London, UK |
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Vector Therapy of Glioblastoma
Noriyuki Kasahara, MD, PhD, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles,
CA |
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Closing Remarks & Final Adjournment |
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