Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation

SYMPOSIUM

"Cracking the Code with the Bear" Research Symposium

Please join Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation for the 5th Annual "Cracking the Code with the Bear" Research Symposium hosted by the University of Chicago Medical Center. The symposium will recognize nine senior graduate students from cancer biology and epigenomics research programs across the country who will present their research.

Two presenters will be awarded a $20,000 grant to further his/her research at the post-doctoral level.

Friday, November 19, 2010
8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
The University of Chicago Medical Center

For more information, contact Julie Blandford at jblandford@bearnecessities.org or 312.214.1200 x32.

Past "Cracking the Code with the Bear" Grantees:

2006 - Nikia Laurie, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital "Inactivation of the P53 Pathway in Retinoblastoma"

2007 - Lars Zender, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Integrative Oncogenomic Approaches for Accelerated Cancer Gene Discovery"

2008 - Laura Soucek, PhD, Associate Research Molecular Biologist, University of California, San Francisco "Inhibiting MYC as a Cancer Therapy"

2009
Conrad Russell Cruz, Senior Graduate Student, Translational Biology & Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine "Combined Epigenetic and Immune-Based Therapies Targeting Mage-A4 For Pediatric Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkins Lymphoma"

Madeline Lancaster, Senior Graduate Student, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program,
University of California, San Diego "The Role of the Oncogenic Protein Ahi1 in Wnt Signaling
and Proliferation in Cerebellar Development"