Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center To Host Nutrition, Genes And Cancer Symposium

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology
Also Included In: Conferences;  Genetics;  Nutrition / Diet
Article Date: 15 Apr 2008 - 6:00 PDT

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The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University will host a research symposium on the interaction between nutrition and genes on cancer development on Wednesday, April 17th, from 12:00 - 4:00pm at Georgetown University Medical Center; Research Building Auditorium, 3970 Reservoir Rd, NW, Washington DC. br>
Scientists from the four institutions funded by a National Cancer Institute interdisciplinary research consortium will present findings from over the past five years of the program. br>
The goal of the initiative, dedicated to "Nutritional Modulation of Genetic Pathways Leading to Cancer," is to expand and facilitate fundamental research that will define the molecular basis by which dietary components influence cancer prevention. br>
Topics will include:

• Genetic and nutritional modulation of intestinal tumorigenesis
  
  
• Nutrition, puberty and breast cancer risk
  
  
• Maternal diet during pregnancy and breast cancer risk among mothers and daughters
  
  
• Diet and colorectal cancer
  
  
• Lignans and prostate and breast cancer
  
  
• Funding opportunities and challenges at NCI

Speakers include:

• Leonard Augenlicht, PhD, director of Molecular Oncology Program, Montefiori Medical Center at Albert Einstein University
  
  
• Steve Barnes, PhD, professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  
  
• Leena Hilakivi-Clarke, PhD, professor of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center
  
  
• David Hunter, ScD, Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention, Harvard School of Public Health
  
  
• Sari Makela, MD, PhD, professor of Food Development, University of Turku, Finland
  
  
• John Milner, PhD, chief of the Nutritional Science Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute

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Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release.
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Source: Karen Mallet
Georgetown University Medical Center