Department of Cancer Biology

Created in 2002, the Department of Cancer Biology's mission is to provide outstanding research contributions in all the fundamental mechanisms that lead to the onset, progression, and dissemination of cancer. 

The department is located on the University campus in the Lazare Research Building, 4th Floor.

1st Annual Cancer Biology Training Program Retreat
Hoagland-Pincus Conference Center, Shrewsbury, May 17, 2011 was a huge success!

Click here for highlights and pictures

Departmental Highlights                              

The Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research (WFBR) has chosen two of Cancer Biology's own faculty to receive the 2011 Grants: 

Eric Baehrecke, PhD, professor of cancer biology: Identification of genes that are required for cancer initiation and metastasis and Junhao Mao, PhD, assistant professor of cancer biology: Non-canonical Gli regulation in pancreatic cancer. 

Please click here for more info and a full list of recipients.

The FASEB MARC program has awarded Shawna Guillemette, graduate student, a travel award to the 42nd EMS Annual Meeting in Montreal Canada, where she will be presenting "FANCJ Functions in Error-Free UV DNA Repair"!
more info on the EMS annual meeting

CONGRATULATIONS to:

Katerina Mardilovich, PhD who sucessfully defended "Insulin receptor substrate-2: A novel hypoxia-responsive gene in breast cancer" on May 11, 2011.

Ian Love, PhD who sucessfully defended "Critical and independent roles of the P/CAF acetyltransferase of ARF-p53 signaling" on May 12, 2011.

Xiaoqing Yang, PhD who successfully defended "Dissection of α6β4 integrin-dependent signaling and breast carcinoma invasion" on July 15, 2011.

Jeffrey Shearstone, PhD who successfully defended "Global DNA demethylation during erythropoiesis" on July 21, 2011.


WELCOME to:

Andreas Bergmann, PhD, Professor.
Dr. Bergmann will be on campus joining the Department of Cancer Biology starting September 1, 2011. His main focus is "Genetic control of programmed cell death (apoptosis) in Drosophila". 

Upcoming Events     

Save the Date:

Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Katherine Fitzgerald, PhD
Associate Professor,
UMass Medical School
Title: "Cytosolic Sensors in Immunity and Inflamation"
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Location: LRB 416
Host: Michelle Kelliher, PhD

Tuesday, March 6, 2012
David Pellman, MD
Dana-Faber Cancer Institute
Title: TBD
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Location: LRB 416
Host: Peter Newburger, MD

Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Christopher Turner, PhD
Professor
Upstate Medical University (SUNY)
Title: TBD
Location: LRB 416
Host: Leslie Shaw, PhD

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