News and Events
Upcoming SPORE meetings
Speaker: Robert Ferris, MD, PhD
Topic:
“Update of p53 vaccine trial” and “Immune activation by EGFR-specific mAbs”
August 13, 2007, 4 PM
Eye & Ear Institute, 5th floor Board
Speaker: Carter Van Waes, MD, PhD, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders/National Institutes of Health
Topic: “Signal and transcriptional regulation of gene expression and molecular therapy of head and neck cancer”
September 10, 2007, 4 PM
Eye & Ear Institute, 5th floor Board
Past SPORE meetings
15th Annual SPORE Investigators’ Workshop:
July 7-10th, 2007,
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
Speakers:Dr. John Lee, University of Iowa and Dr. David Bartlett
Topics: Dr. Lee — “Mechanisms of Invasion in HPV Related Cancer from Mice to Men and Back Again”
Dr. Bartlett — “A phase I gene therapy protocol designed to treat head and neck cancer patients”
Monday, June 18, 2007, 4 PM
Eye & Ear Institute, 5th floor Board
Speaker: Camille C. Rose Ragin PhD, MPH
Topic: “Molecular Markers of HPV-associated Head and Neck Tumors”
Monday, April 9, 2007, 4 PM
Eye & Ear Institute, 5th floor Board
Speaker: Susanne M. Gollin, PhD
Topic: “Loss of DNA damage response genes in head and neck cancer”
Monday, April 9, 2007, 4 PM
Eye & Ear Boardroom
Speaker: Yuri E. Nikiforov, MD, PhD
“Molecular Genetics of Thyroid Cancer – Tools for New Gene Mutation Discovery”
Monday, March 12, 2007
4 PM, Eye & Ear Boardroom.
| Date | Presentation | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 9, 2006 | Jill Siegfried "Overview of the SPORE in Lung Cancer: Opportunities for Interaction with the Head and Neck SPORE" |
4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |
| February 13, 2006 | Informatics Core | 4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |
| March 13, 2006 | Laura Stabile Cross-talk between the estrogen receptor and epidermal growth factor receptor signaling pathways in head and neck cancer |
4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |
| April 17, 2006 | (We are having our EAB Mtg on 4/10) Jonathan Jarvik "Characterization of the secretome of HNSCC cells using CD-tagging" |
4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |
| May 8, 2006 | Emannuela Taioli "Target tissue and markers of exposure to carcinogens" |
4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |
| June 19, 2006 | (June 12, TCB study section) John Lazo "Pharmacological control of cellular senescence in head and neck cancer" |
4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |
| July 10, 2006 | Thomas O'Brien "Polyamine-based therapy of squamous cell carcinoma" |
4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |
| August 14, 2006 | Nathan Bahary "From zebrafish to tumorigenesis; EGFR pathway members in GI development and their potential utility for understanding HNSCC" Anna Lokshin (reschedule for Jan/Feb 2007) |
4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |
| September 13, 2006 (rescheduled from 9/11) | Dr. Michael K. Gibson of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins "Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor as a Therapeutic Target in Esophageal Cancer". |
11:00 AM | EEI Boardroom |
| October 9, 2006 | Andzej Drukier (in place of Robert Ferris) | 4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |
| November 13, 2006 | Jill Siegfried | 4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |
| December 11, 2006 | Raja Seethala | 4:00 PM | EEI Boardroom |