OVERVIEW:

Coordinated by the University of Wisconsin Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center and BTCI, this symposium brings together world leaders in the area of cancer stem cells, and recruitment of tumor precursor cells.  The focus is on basic cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern the cell growth potential of tumors, and whether there is a relationship between the long-lived/immortal cells of tumors and the long-lived/immortal cells of somatic tissues.

HIGHLIGHTED ISSUES:

• Breast cancer - is it a stem cell based disease?
• How do somatic stem cells relate to lung tumor development?
• How do these systems compare to the rapidly regenerating lineages such as the hematopoietic lineage?
• What do we need to know about stem cells to understand brain tumors?
• Does this information need to be incorporated into therapeutic strategies?

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Caroline Alexander, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, UW-Madison)

Wade Bushman, M.D., Ph.D. (Robert F. and Dolores Schnoes Professor of Urology and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health) (Moderator)

George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Peter Dirks, M.D., Ph.D. (Staff Neurosurgeon and Principal Investigator, The Hospital for Sick Children; Scientist, Research Institute; Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto)

William F. Dove, Ph.D. (George Streisinger Professor of Experimental Biology and Professor of Oncology and Medical Genetics, UW-Madison) (Moderator)

Carla Bender Kim, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Children's Hospital Stem Cell Program; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Harvard Stem Cell Institute)

John S. Kuo, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery and Human Oncology and Director, Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health)

Michael T. Lewis, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine)

Luis F. Parada, Ph.D. (University of Texas Southwestern at Dallas: Chairman, Department of Developmental Biology; Diana and Richard C. Strauss Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology; Director Southwestern Ball Distinguished Chair in Basic Neuroscience Research; American Cancer Society Research Professor)

Max S. Wicha, M.D. (University of Michigan: Professor, Department of Internal Medicine; Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Distinguished Professor of Oncology; Cancer Center Member)

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