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 Biomedical Graduate Studies

CAMB 512 Cancer Genetics and Biology

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Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko
Costas Koumenis
Carlo Maley

The course will involve lectures and readings of important papers on cancer genetics, cancer cell growth, metastasis, angiogenesis, and experimental therapeutics. 

Mondays/Thursdays: 10:30 am – 12:00 noon
801 BRB

Mon Jan 8

Introductory remarks

Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko

Thu Jan 11

Discovery of Oncogene and Tumor Suppressors

Fred Barr/Costas Koumenis

Mon Jan 15

NO CLASS - MLK DAY

Thu Jan 18

Telomeres and senescence

Brad Johnson

Mon Jan 22

Tumor suppressors: p53/Rb pathways

Joe Kissil

Thu Jan 25

DNA repair and caretaker tumor suppressors

John Lynch

Mon Jan 29

Tumor cells apoptosis

Craig Thompson

Thu Feb 1

Tumor cell cycle

Alan Diehl

Mon Feb 5

CELL-AUTONOMOUS MECHANISMS

JC

Mon Jan 8

Introductory remarks

Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko

Thu Feb 8

CELL-AUTONOMOUS MECHANISMS

JC

Mon Feb 12

Evolution in Cancer

Carlo Maley

Thu Feb 15

Tumor angiogenesis

Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko

Mon Feb 19

Inflammation and Cancer

Ellen Pure

Thu Feb 22

Tumor Hypoxia

Costas Koumenis

Mon Feb 26

Metastasis and Tumor Microenvironment

Meenhard Herlyn

Thu Mar 1

NON-CELL-AUTONOMOUS MECHANISMS

JC

Mon Mar 5

Mid-term exam

Thu Mar 8

Pancreatic cancer: from mouse to human

Anil Rustgi

Mon Mar 12

Heme malignancies/Cancer stem cells

Warren Pear/Martin Carroll

Thu Mar 15

Pediatric cancers

Garrett Broeder

Mon Mar 19

Viruses and Cancer

Susan Ross

Thu Mar 22

NON-CELL-AUTONOMOUS MECHANISMS

JC

Mon Mar 26

ORGAN SYSTEMS

JC

Thu Mar 29

ORGAN SYSTEMS

JC

Mon Apr 2

Intro to Clinical Oncology

Beth Furth

Thu Apr 5

Protein kinase inhibitors as cancer therapeutics

Keith Flaherty

Mon Apr 9

Radiation therapy

Gary Kao

Thu Apr 12

Immunotherapy of cancer

Carl June

Mon Apr 16

THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES

JC

Thu Apr 19

THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES

JC

Mon Apr 23

Final exam