MIT Cancer Briefing for Reporters
Thursday, March 6, 2008
9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Broad Auditorium, Main St. near Ames St., MIT Campus (map)
Sponsored by the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Join us March 6 for a media briefing by some of MIT's foremost cancer researchers, focusing on new ways of diagnosing and treating the disease. For more information, please contact Patti Richards, MIT News Office: 617-253-8923 or prichards@mit.edu.
Designing Solutions for the Next Generation: Why Now, Why MIT?
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Tyler Jacks, David H. Koch Professor of Biology; Director, MIT Center for Cancer Research
9 out of 10: How and Why Metastasis Kills
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Frank Gertler, Ross Scholar Professor of Biology
Tyler Jacks
Why Cancer Drugs Stop Working
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Michael Hemann, Latham Family Career Development Asst. Professor of Biology
David Housman, Ludwig Professor of Biology
Break
11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
The Big Impact of (Very) Small Science: Nanoimaging
11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Angela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering
Sangeeta Bhatia, Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Technology; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Michael Cima, Sumitomo Electric Industries Professor of Engineering
Drawing the Wiring Diagram of a Cancer Cell
11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Nancy Hopkins, Amgen Professor of Biology
Jacqueline Lees, Professor of Biology; Assoc. Director, MIT Center for Cancer Research
Forest White, Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering
Michael Yaffe, Associate Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering
Synergy: Why Collaborations Matter
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Luncheon (Monadnock Room, Broad)
The Big Impact of (Very) Small Science: Nanotherapy
1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Robert Langer, Institute Professor
Scott Manalis, Associate Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering
Phillip Sharp, Institute Professor
Break
2:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Search and Destroy: Triggering the Immune Response
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Paula Hammond, Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering
Darrell Irvine, Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Tissue Engineering
Dane Wittrup, Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering
Q & A with Tyler Jacks
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Under the Hood: How Cancer Research Gets Done
3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Laboratory tours
Reception in Lobby
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
