February 7 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 The most cost effective medical intervention in human history has been vaccination. Yet vaccines were largely developed by empirical testing and most consist of killed pathogen or crude parts. We...
February 21 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 The Incidence of Esophageal Cancer is rising at a rate greater than any other cancer in the United States. We have experienced a 7 fold increase in the last 3 decades. It is estimated that this...
March 7 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video Cancer continues to elude us. Metastasis, relapse and drug resistance are all still poorly understood and clinically insuperable. Evidently, the prevailing paradigms need to be...
March 21 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video Appropriately simulating the three dimensional (3-D) environment in which organs and tissues normally function is necessary for development of in vitro cultures that realistically...
April 4th 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video Pathologists observe the biology of cancer on a daily basis, diagnosing new cancers and staging known cancers simply by looking into a simple tool invented nearly 500 years ago....
September 5 2013 Biodesign Auditorium 727 E. Tyler St. Tempe AZ 85287 View Web Cast Video Cancer is a disruption of normal cell development. In the view of the quasi-potential landscape of gene networks, cancer arises because cells are pushed into developmentally...