[Mitworld] New: Fundamentals of Cancer Research

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 6 | October 19, 2006
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[FUNDAMENTALS OF CANCER RESEARCH: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW]

This inaugural address lays the groundwork for an 11-part series on
MITís efforts in cancer research.

SPEAKERS:
Susan Hockfield
MIT President
Professor of Neuroscience

Robert J. Silbey
Dean, School of Science and Class of 1942 Professor of Chemistry

Tyler Jacks
Director, Center for Cancer Research and David H. Koch Professor of
Biology, MIT Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/385/>

[QUOTE]
"Better understanding of molecular alterations in cancer has translated
over the years into the development of better drugs. This is the
future."

--Tyler Jacks


EVENT HOST: MIT School of Science
<http://web.mit.edu/science/>

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[INTRODUCTION TO CANCER GENETICS]

Weinberg offers a primer on the process of cancer formation.

SPEAKER:
Robert A. Weinberg
Founding Member, MIT Center for Cancer Research
Member, Whitehead Institute
Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer
Research
Department of Biology


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/386/>

[QUOTE]
"We work with the faith that the only way to develop new, rational ways
of treating cancer is to understand what makes cancer cells tick."

--Robert Weinberg


EVENT HOST: MIT Center for Cancer Research
<http://web.mit.edu/ccr/>

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Fundamentals of Cancer Research will feature additional lectures by
Leona Samson, Jacqueline Lees, Angelika Amon, Richard O. Hynes,
Eric Lander, Douglas Lauffenberger, Michael Yaffe, Jianzhu Chen,
Phillip A. Sharp and Robert Langer. The entire series will be made
available on MIT World in November.
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