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