About Us | Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

February 17, 2010 | 2-6:30pm

A symposium for medical professionals, researchers and patient advocates

Listen to the Event

Part I: The Science of Fighting a Smarter War on Cancer

2:00 pm	Welcome	by John L. Marshall, MD
	12 min, 39 seconds

2:15 pm	Why Personalized Medicine is the Only Way: Targeting the EGFR pathway	by Louis M. Weiner, MD
	22 min, 25 seconds

2:30 pm	Panel Discussion: Is the Answer Already in our Hands?Moderated by John L. Marshall, MD
	Tissue as diagnostic tool	by Hartmut Juhl, MD
	11 min, 54 seconds

	MicroRNA	by Anton Wellstein, MD, PhD
	17 min, 31 seconds

	Metabolomics	by Albert J. Fornace, Jr, MD
	12 min, 04 seconds

	Connecting the Dots: Informatics	by Subha Madhavan, PhD
	15 min, 57 seconds

	Question and Answer session
	26 min, 45 seconds

4:05 pm	Challenges of Cancer Targeted Drug Development
	Turning a “Target” into a “Drug”	by Milton Brown, MD, PhD
	18 min, 59 seconds

	Turning a “Drug” into a “Therapy”	by Gilad Gordon, MD, MBA
	23 min, 25 seconds

4:40	Break
Part II: Personalized Medicine & the Cure for Cancer
5:00pm	Thomas R. Schafer Memorial Lecture in Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal Cancer
	From Bench to Bedside to Pfizer	by Mace Rothenberg, MD
	45 min, 24 seconds

5:30 pm	Empiricism: The Ethics of “Trial and Error” Medicine	by Carol Taylor, PhD, MSN
	19 min, 19 seconds

5:50 pm	The Role of Cancer Advocacy in Finding the Cures	by Carolyn "Bo" Aldigé
	16 min, 46 seconds

6:10 pm	Healthcare Reform and the Cures of Cancer	by The Hon. W.J. (Billy) Tauzin
	31 min, 22 seconds