Cancer Biology Research Seminars are held each Thursday in the Cancer Center Auditorium. These seminars are sponsored by the UC Davis Cancer Center Basic Sciences Program.
Refreshments will be served.

Thursday, November 19, 2009, 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Dr. Alan Wells
Thomas J. Gill III Professor of Pathology
Vice Chair for Laboratory Medicine
Medical Director of UPMC Clinical Laboratories
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Topic: There goes the neighborhood: tumors and their surrounding normal tissue conspire with each other
Keywords: Extracellular Matrix, Metastasis, Invasion, EMT/MErT
Location: UC Davis Cancer Center auditorium, 4501 "X" Street
Host: Dr. Hsing-Jien Kung, UC Davis Cancer Center Basic Science

Thursday, December 3, 2009, 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Speaker: Dr. Tianhong (Tina) Li
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, Phase I Program
Co-Director, Breast Cancer Research Program
UC Davis Cancer Center; Division of Hematology & Oncology
Topic: Optimizing EGFR-Targeting Therapy in Lung Cancer
Keywords: Non-small cell lung cancer, epidermal growth factor receptor, tyrosine kinase inhibitor, resistance mechanism, biomarker
Location: UC Davis Cancer Center auditorium, 4501 "X" Street
Host: Dr. Hsing-Jien Kung, UC Davis Cancer Center Basic Science

For more information about the Cancer Biology Research Seminars, call or email Fran Richardson at (916) 734-3111.