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Therapeutics: In medicine, the branch that deals specifically with the treatment of disease and the art and science of healing. Exercise, diet, and mental factors are therefore integral to the prevention, as well as the management, of disease processes. More specific measures that are employed to treat specific symptoms include the use of drugs to relieve pain or treat infection, surgery to remove diseased tissue or replace poorly functioning or nonfunctioning organs with fully operating ones, and counseling or psychotherapy to relieve emotional distress.
OCT 16, 2013 | 2:00 PM
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Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most significant causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. In about 6-7% of NSCLC, rearrangements involving the Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase...
OCT 16, 2013 | 1:00 PM
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Cancer cells have historically been classified by microscopic analysis of blood smears and tissue sections. Current technologies use molecular techniques to categorize and classify tumor cell...
OCT 16, 2013 | 12:00 PM
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The eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E is a potent oncogene estimated to be elevated in about 30% of human cancers including cancers of the breast, prostate, lung, colon as well a...
OCT 16, 2013 | 12:00 PM
The effective implementation of personalised cancer therapeutic regimens depends on the successful identification and translation of informative biomarkers to aid clinical decision making. Th...
OCT 16, 2013 | 11:00 AM
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Cancer and diabetes are complex diseases that have proven difficult to treat in the clinics. Until recently, most efforts have focused on hitting individual therapeutic targets cleanly. Unfor...
OCT 16, 2013 | 11:00 AM
"SuperSelective" primers, by virtue of their unique design, enable only a few molecules of a mutant sequence to generate amplicons in conventional, real-time PCR assays without interference...
OCT 16, 2013 | 10:00 AM
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The current paradigm of detecting established cancer (often too late) and treating routinely with cytotoxic drugs is beginning to change. Advanced technologies such as whole genome sequencin...
OCT 16, 2013 | 9:00 AM
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It is now appreciated that breast cancer is not a single disease, but instead is a spectrum of tumor subtypes with distinct cellular origins, somatic changes and somewhat predictable clinical...
OCT 16, 2013 | 7:00 AM
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With the rapid rise in the number of therapeutic options for men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) comes increasingly complicated treatment decision-making, emphasizing the nee...
OCT 16, 2013 | 7:00 AM
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The adjuvant therapy of choice for superficial bladder cancer is the intravesical instillation of live Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). In spite of the fact that this thera...
AUG 22, 2013 | 5:00 PM
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Malignancies caused by so-called Type I chemical and biological carcinogens provide important opportunities studying early events in cancer development, providing essential information for de...
AUG 22, 2013 | 5:00 PM
As Chief of Scientific Intelligence at the John Wayne Cancer Institute, Dr. Hoon interacts with external academic, industry, and government agencies to develop innovative translational rese...
AUG 22, 2013 | 11:00 AM
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I will describe recent advances in computational protein design which allow the generation of new protein structures and functions. I will describe the use of these methods to design ultra-st...
AUG 22, 2013 | 10:00 AM
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The advent of massively parallel sequencing by next generation sequencing platforms now allow genomic approaches for individualizing healthcare. Genomic sequencing data reveals variants in ge...
AUG 22, 2013 | 7:00 AM
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a heterogenous disease that affects 1.5% of the population. Similar to cancer, early detection coupled with an effective treatment strategy can significantly impr...
AUG 21, 2013 | 4:00 PM
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Approximately 98% of the human genome comprises noncoding DNA, the function of which is largely unknown. Intriguingly, more than 85% of single nucleotide polymorphisms identified to be associ...
AUG 21, 2013 | 2:00 PM
Increasingly genome sequence knowledge is unraveling the complexity of rare Mendelian disorders offering hope for our children's medical care through better disease diagnosis and ultimately p...
AUG 21, 2013 | 10:00 AM
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Massively parallel sequencing technology has proven to enable the identification of driver genetic alterations in patients' tumors that may be suppressed by targeted therapies. Through retros...
AUG 21, 2013 | 10:00 AM
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In the United States, invasive aspergillosis (IA), an invasive fungal infection of the upper respiratory tract of immune compromised patients, is usually caused by Aspergilus fumigatus, while...
AUG 21, 2013 | 7:00 AM
Our ability to view and alter biology is progressing at an exponential pace -- faster even than electronics. Next generation sequencing can be used to assess inherited, environmental and epi-...
MAR 23, 2013 | 8:00 AM
Dr. Johannes van der Loo will cover the vital role viral vectors play in today's gene research, as well as the use of ultracentrifugation to produce these key delivery systems.
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SEP 12, 2012 | 9:00 AM
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 The Project (PersonalGenomes.org) enables open observation and critique of a large cohort "test-driving" comprehensive participatory personalized medicine. This is the only fully open-access...