Monday
January 7
12:00 PM

"Immunogene Therapy for Malignant Mesothelioma and other Pleural Malignancies:
From Bench to Bedside and Back Again"

Daniel H. Sterman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine in Surgery
Director, Interventional Pulmonology Program
Clinical Director, Thoracic Oncology Gene Therapy Program
Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Division
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Room 401

Tuesday
January 8
10:00 AM

"Epigenetic Regulation of Protein Coding and
Non-Coding genes in Ovarian cancer"

Herbert Yu, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University School of Medicine

Room 401

Friday
January 11
12:00 PM

"Notch Signaling in Thoracic Malignancies"

Maurizio Bocchetta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Thoracic Oncology Program
Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center
Loyola University Medical Center

Room 401

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Thursday
January 24
12:00 PM

"Your Research Partner: The National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service"

Cancer Information Service
Pacific Region Team

Room 401

Thursday
February 14
12:00 PM

"Novel Risk Factors for Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma"

Jimmy Efird, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Associate Professor
Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology
John A. Burns School of Medicine
Associate Member, Epidemiology Program
Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i

Room 401

Thursday
March 13
12:00 PM

"Chemical and Biological Lessons Learnt from Marine Natural Products"

Philip Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Full Member, Natural Products and Cancer Biology Program
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii

Room 401

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Monday
March 17
12:00 PM

"The Impact of Health Communication and Marketing
on Cancer-Related Behaviors"

Leslie Snyder, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication Sciences at
University of Connecticut
Director, Center for Health Communication and Marketing,
a CDC Center of Excellence in Health Marketing and Health Communication

Room 401

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Thursday
March 20
12:00 PM

"An Internet-Based Framework for Expanding the
Impact of Psychosocial Treatment of Cancer:
Efficacy and Mechanisms of Action"

Jason Owen, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Loma Linda University

Room 401

Tuesday
April 8
12:30 PM

"Chronic Cancer Pain: Gene Therapy to (Epi-)Genomics"

Andreas Beutler, M.D.
Assistant Professor in Medicine (Hematology/Oncology)
Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Room 401

Thursday
April 10
12:00 PM

"Natural Inhibitors of Carcinogenesis"

John M. Pezzuto, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean
College of Pharmacy
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Full Member, Natural Products and Cancer Biology
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii

Room 401

Wednesday
April 16
12:00 PM

"Pannexins: a novel growth suppressor in gliomas"

Christian Naus, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Head
Canada Research Chair in Gap Junction Disease
Department of Cellular Physiological Sciences
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

BSB Room 222N (651 Ilalo Street in Kakaako)

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Tuesday
April 22
12:00 PM

"Differential Patterns of Genomic Alterations in Subtypes of Breast Cancer"

Lenora Loo, Ph.D.
Affiliate
Division of Human Biology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington

Room 401

Thursday
April 24
12:00 PM

"Exploring the Anti-Breast Cancer Effect of Bamboo Extract"

June Panee, Ph.D.
Assistant Researcher
Cell and Molecular Biology
John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Associate Member, Natural Products and Cancer Biology
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii

Room 401

Tuesday
April 29
12:00 PM

"The regulation of tumor promotion by RasGRP1 in response to TPA"
(Please click on the title for more information)

Courtney Luke, Ph.D.

Wednesday
April 30
12:00 PM

"Role of Notch Signaling in Thoracic Malignancies"

Maurizio Bocchetta, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Thoracic Oncology Program
Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center
Loyola University Medical Center

BSB Room 222N (651 Ilalo Street in Kakaako)

Thursday
May 1
12:00 PM

"Torsion, Topology, and Transcription: Regulation of c-myc by the FBP/FIR/FUSE Axis"

and

"Small Molecule Inhibitors of Tumor Metastasis"

Demetrios T. Braddock, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Yale University

Room 401

Monday
May 12
12:00 PM

"Clinical significance of ODC inhibition in the treatment of cancer"

Victor A. Levin, M.D.
Professor
Bernard W. Biedenharn Chair in Cancer Research
Department of Neuro-Oncology
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

MEB 315 (651 Ilalo Street in Kakaako)

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Tuesday
May 13
12:30 PM

"Management and treatment of patients with high-grade malignant gliomas"

Victor A. Levin, M.D.
Professor
Bernard W. Biedenharn Chair in Cancer Research
Department of Neuro-Oncology
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Room 401

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Thursday
May 15
12:00 PM

"Innate Immune Signaling Pathways and Cancer"

Glen N. Barber, Ph.D.
Eugenia J. Dodson Chair in Cancer Research
Associate Director for Basic Research
UM/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Miami School of Medicine

Room 401

Tuesday
May 27
12:00 PM

"Immune phenotype of PEA-15 null mice"
(Please click on the title for more information)

Sandra Pastorino, Ph.D.

Monday
June 9
12:00PM

"Exposure and biomonitoring of heterocyclic aromatic amines:
Potential human carcinogens"

Robert J. Turesky, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Division of Environmental Disease Prevention,
NYS Department of Health
Empire State Plaza
Albany, New York

Room 401