Seminars & Events
NEW EVENTS!
Click here to view photos from the NJCCR 2008 Annual Retreat CLICK
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First Annual Susan G Komen North Jersey Race for the Cure in Newark's Branch Brook Park May 4th 2008
Cancer Cneter Team: $3860 raised, 110 donations, 85 runners/walkers at the park !!!!
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Cancer Center "Science Art" Project
For more information about the project, click here .
Artist:
Dr. Leroy Sharer
Dept. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Section Neuropathology
New Jersey Medical School
Image:
Photomicrograph of the contents of a dermoid tumor in the pineal region. Paraffin section stained with hematoxylin and eosin imaged with a Nikon DN100 digital camera on a Zeiss microscope, 10X objective.
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Cancer Center Work in Progress (WIP) Series 2008
Every Friday at Noon
G level Conference Room of the Cancer Center
Date |
Speaker |
Advisor |
Jan 11 |
Stephen Flowers |
Moran |
Jan 18 |
Homer Adams |
Whitehead |
Jan 25 |
Ahmed Lasfar |
Kotenko |
Feb 1 |
Open |
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Feb 8 |
Matthey Covey |
Levison |
Feb 15 |
Pat Soteropoulos |
CAG Overview |
Feb 22 |
Open |
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Feb 29 |
Manuela |
Azzam |
Mar 7 |
Lisong Yang |
Barnes |
Mar 14 |
Liangpeng Liu |
Ozer |
Mar 21 |
Good Friday |
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Mar 28 |
Nicole Pannucci |
Whitehead |
Apr 4 |
Jungsoo Min-CANCELED |
Wood |
Apr 11 |
Pedro Rodriguez |
Whitehead |
Apr 18 |
Walid Abshahba media file |
Kotenko |
Apr 25 |
Amber Ziegler |
Levison |
May 2 |
Judith Barrios |
Wieder |
May 9 |
Justyna Korczeniewska |
Barnes |
May 16 |
Sutapa Sahay-CANCELED |
Whitehead |
May 23 |
Limin Shu |
Wu |
May 30 |
Anitha Suram-CANCELED |
Herbig |
Jun 6 |
Di Feng-CANCELED |
Barnes |
Jun 13 |
Kevin Nguyen |
Moran |
Jun 20 |
Open |
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Jun 27 |
Kedar Mahajan-CANCELED |
Wood |
NJMS-UH Cancer Center Breast Cancer Journal Club 2007/2008
First and Third Thursday of every month at 10:30am
H level Conference Room (H1196) of the Cancer Center
| Date | Name |
| 6-Sep | Org meeting |
| 20-Sep | Bob Wieder |
| 4-Oct | Debi Lazzarino |
| 18-Oct | Lizhao Wu |
| 1-Nov | Anne Rowzee |
| 15-Nov | Pedro Rodriguez |
| 6-Dec | Judy Barrios |
| 20-Dec | Edouard Azzam |
| 3-Jan | Terri Wood |
| 17-Jan | Homer Adams III |
| 7-Feb | Ian Whitehead (CANCELED) |
| 21-Feb | Tsafi Pe'ery |
| 6-Mar | Ray Birge (CANCELED) |
| 20-Mar | Marion Cohen |
| 3-Apr | Zhaoyu Sun |
| 17-Apr | Betty Moran (CANCELED) |
| 1-May | Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly |
| 15-May | Lauren Rota |
Newark Cancer Center Community Series 2007/2008
Third Monday of Every Month at Noon
G level Conference Room of the Cancer Center
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
September 17th 2007
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Richard Eckner Visiting Scientist NJMS-UH Cancer Center |
Regulation of cell morphology and signaling by the acetyltranferases p300 and CBP |
October 15th 2007
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Elizabeth Raveche Dept. of Pathology NJMS CCC Member |
microRNAs and Cancer: Role of miR-16 in CLL |
November 19th 2007
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Elizabeth Moran Dept. Orthopedics NJMS CCC Member |
The mammalian SWI/SNF complex and cancer |
Dec 17th 2007
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Pranela Rameshwar Dept. of Medicine NJMS CCC Member |
Is the phenotype of breast cancer cells unique to those in bone marrow? |
January 21st 2008
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(Holiday) Martin Luther King, Jr.s Birthday Observance |
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February 18th 2008
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Pat Bocarsly Dept. Pathology NJMS CCC Member |
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells in antiviral and tumor immunity |
March 17th 2008
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Open for Faculty Search |
TBA |
April 21st 2008
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Muriel Lambert Dept of Pathology NJMS CCC Member |
Spectrin, A Structural Protein Important in DNA Repair and Cancer |
May 19th 2008
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Vincent Tsiagbe Dept. Oral Biol and Path NJDS CCC Member |
Subversion of the Immune System by Retroviral Superantigen in Aid of Lymphoma |
June 23rd 2008
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Ray Birge Dept. of Biochemistry NJMS CCC Member |
Transactivation of Abl tyrosine kinase by Crk and CrkL adaptor proteins |
NJMS-UH Cancer Center Invited Speaker Seminar Series 2007/2008
First Monday of Every Month at Noon
G level Conference Room of the Cancer Center
Date |
Speaker |
Speaker Affiliation |
Hosted by |
September 10th 2007
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Ed Gunther, Ph.D. |
Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey Topic: Mouse models of breast cancer and residual disease. |
Wood |
November 5th 2007
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Saghi Ghaffari, M.D., Ph.D. |
Mount Sinai School of Medicine Topic: Foxo3 Transcription Factor and the Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Fate: A role for Oxidative Stress |
Mahon |
Dec 3rd 2007
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Fred Bunz, Ph.D. |
Johns Hopkins Topic: DNA Damage Induced Cell Cycle Checkpoint |
Barnes |
January 7th 2008
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Alan Hall, Ph.D. |
Chair Cell Biology Program Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Topic: Identification of steps in cell cycle progression of normal and cancer cells controlled by Rho GTPases |
Student Invite: Pedro Rodriguez |
Feb 4th 2008 |
Edmund C Lattime, Ph.D. |
Prof Surgery, RWJMS Topic: Modulating the Tumor Microenvironment to Enhance Tumor immunity |
Kotenko |
March 3rd 2008 |
Open for Faculty Search |
TBA |
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April 7th 2008 |
Antoinette R. Tan, M.D. |
Medical Oncology The Cancer Institute of New Jersey Topic:Evolving Targets for the Treatment of Basal-like Breast Cancer. |
Lazzarino |
May 5th 2008 |
Andrew Aplin, Ph.D. |
Albany Medical College, New York Topic: "Mutant B-RAF and adhesion signaling in melanoma"
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Whitehead |
NJMS-UH Cancer Center Grand Rounds 2008
2nd Monday of Every Month,
Cancer Center G level Conference
Room G1196 at Noon
January 14th Andrew de la Torre, M.D. website click here
February 11th Kathleen Beebe, M.Dwebsite click here
March 10th Lawrence Harrison, M.D. website click here
April 14th Georgi Guruli, M.D., Ph.D. website click here
May 12th Erik G. Cohen, M.D. website click here
June 9th Nasrin Ghesani, M.D. website click here
September 8th Bernadette Cracchiolo, M.D. website click here
October 13th Chirag D. Gandhi M.D. website click here
November 10th Dolly Razdan, M.D. website click here
December 8th Lilian Pliner, M.D. website click here
NJMS-UH Cancer Center Tumor Conferences 2007/2008
The Cancer Center hosts a series of weekly multidisciplinary cancer conferences where new and clinically relevant patients are discussed for treatment options, including clinical trials. The conferences are reasonably casual and the leaders of each conference would embrace the attendance of basic scientists and graduate students with similar interest to develop potential collaboration.
Cancer Center Grand Rounds |
Head and Neck Tumor Conference |
Clinical Director: Dr. Charles Cathcart Contact person: Dr. Gwendolyn Mahon Location: Cancer Center, G level Conf. Rm., G1196 Phone number: 2-4721 e-mail: mahongm@umdnj.edu Date & time: 2nd Monday of the month, 12pm – 1pm Topics: Internal Clinical Cancer Faculty presentations. CME credits are granted. |
Clinical Director: Dr. Soly Baredes Contact person: Ray Scarpa Location: Doctor’s Office Center, 8th Floor NINJ Conference Room Phone number: 2-5540 e-mail: scarparj@umdnj.edu Date & time: Mondays, 8am – 9:30am Topics: Two to three case presentations and multidisciplinary discussion of active cancer patients. CME credits are granted. |
Lung Tumor Conference |
Breast & GI Tumor Conference |
Clinical Director: Dr. Dolly Razdan Contact person: Dr. Razdan Location: Radiation Oncology Conf. Rm. Phone number: 2-5160 e-mail: razdanda@umdnj.edu Date & time: Tuesdays, 12pm – 1pm Topics: Multiple case presentations concerning current lung cancer patients and other malignant diseases of the thorax. |
Clinical Director: Dr. Lawrence Harrison Contact person: Claire Smith Location: Cancer Center, F level, room F1196 . Phone number: 2-1110 e-mail: smithcd@umdnj.edu Date & time: Tuesdays, 10:30 am– 12 pm Topics: Multiple new and on-treatment presentations concerning malignancies of the breast and GI tract, including the liver. Cases evaluated specifically for clinical trial protocols.
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Urology Tumor Conference |
Neurosurgery Tumor Conference |
Clinical Director: Dr. Mark Jordan & Dr. G. Guruli Contact person: Dr. Georgi Guruli Location: Cancer Center, F level room F1196 Phone number: 2-4097 e-mail: gurulige@umdnj.edu Date & time: Fourth Tuesday of each month, 5pm – 6pm Topics: Two or three case presentations are discussed by all diagnostic and treating physicians. |
Clinical Director: Dr. Jeffrey Catrambone Contact person: Dr. Jeffrey Catrambone Location: MSB, Pathology Library Phone number: 2-2337 e-mail: catramje@umdnj Date & time: First Wednesday of each month, 10:30am – 12pm Topics: Interesting and challenging neurological cases both malignant and benign are discussed for potential treatment options.
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Sarcoma Tumor Conference |
Gynecological Tumor Conference |
Clinical Director: Dr. Joseph Benevenia Contact person: Dr. Kathleen Beebe Location: University Hospital, H-Green Phone number: 2-2153 e-mail: ksbeebe@speakeasy.net Date & time: Thursdays, 3:30pm – 5pm Topics: Presentation of bone and soft tissue tumors with diagnostic dilemmas. |
Clinical Director: Dr. Bernadette Cracchiolo Contact person: Acquinetta Adams Location: University Hospital, E-163 Phone number: 2-5551 e-mail: adamsac@umdnj.edu Date & time: Every other Friday, 8:30am – 9am Topics: Patients who are being actively treated or worked up are discussed while reviewing pathology specimens. |
