Titel: Stem Cells and Cancer

Termin: 2.3.2007, 15:00 Uhr, bis 7.3.2007

Veranstaltungsort:
Keystone Resort
21996 US Highway 6
Keystone, Colorado 80435
USA

Referenten: A. Thomas Look (Dana Farber Cancer Institute) *** Allan C. Spradling (HHMI/Carnegie Institute) *** Austin Gurney (OncoMed Pharmaceuticals) *** Catriona HM Jamieson (University of California at SanDiego) *** Charles ffrench-Constant (University of Cambridge) *** D. Gary Gilliland (Brigham and Women's Hospital) *** David J. Mooney (Harvard University) *** David T. Scadden (Massachusetts General Hospital) *** Donald E. Ingber (Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital Boston) *** Elaine Fuchs (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rockefeller University) *** Elizabeth Ailles (Stanford University) *** Erika Matunis (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) *** Fiona M. Watt (Cancer Research UK London Research Institute) *** Fred H. Gage (The Salk Institute for Biological Studies) *** Frederick W. Alt (Children's Hospital Boston) *** Gerd Hasenfuss (University of Goettingen) *** Gregory L. Verdine (Harvard University) *** Irving L. Weissman (Stanford University) *** James P. Allison (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) *** Jeffrey D. Macklis (Harvard University) *** Joan Massagué (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) *** John E. Dick (Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network) *** Judith E. Kimble (University of Wisconsin-Madison) *** Linheng Li (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) *** Maarten Van Lohiuzen (Netherlands Cancer Institute) *** Margaret T. Fuller (Stanford University) *** Mark M. Davis (Stanford University) *** Michael F. Clarke (Stanford University) *** Michael L. Cleary (Stanford University) *** Napoleone Ferrara (Genentech, Inc.) *** Niels Geijsen (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research) *** Owen N. Witte (University of California, Los Angeles) *** Paul J. Simmons (Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute) *** Peter Dirks (Hospital for Sick Children) *** Philip A. Beachy (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) *** Roeland Nusse (Stanford University) *** Sean J. Morrison (University of Michigan/HHMI) *** T. Liu (Genome Institute of Singapore) *** Takashi Shinohara (Kyoto University) *** Tannishtha Reya (Duke University Medical Center) *** Ting Xie (Stowers Institute) *** Toshio Suda (Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University) *** Tyler Jacks (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) *** William Chia (King's College London) *** Yann Barrandon (EPFL FSV IGD)

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Kurzbeschreibung: Cancers arise in tissues in which short-lived mature cells are constantly replenished by a rare population of stem cells. It is becoming apparent that tumors are caricatures of the organ in which they arise. The cancer cells in a tumor are arranged in a hierarchy and contain a minority population of cancer stem cells that drive tumor growth while the majority of the cancer cells are unable to do so. Normal stem cells and cancer stem cells maintain themselves through a process called self-renewal. The cancer stem cells are responsible for the growth and spread of tumors. Expansion of normal stem cells is under genetic constraints. Cancer stem cells have escaped these limitations on expansion resulting in expansion of the self-renewing cell populations. The goals of this meeting are to understand and present the most current research into the cellular and molecular biology of cancer stem cells. Topics that will be explored in this meeting are the cancer stem cell niche, the cell of origin of cancer stem cells, the regulation of stem cell self-renewal in normal stem cells and cancer, and cancer stem cells as therapeutic targets.

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Veranstalter: Keystone Symposia

Schlagworte: Embryonale Stammzellen, Gentherapie, Krankheit