Serving Science - The CUNY Science Cafe
In the first Serving Science event of Fall 2009, Hunter College's Dr. Jill Bargonetti presents Disarming Breast Cancer's Elusive Molecular Arsenals: How Close Are We? Breast Cancer is not just one disease, but multiple diseases. Different breast cancers must be targeted for destruction differently. The mutations that promote cancer set up the specific pathways for the molecular arsenal that needs to be disarmed, depending on whether the mutation is familial-mutations present at conception, or sporadic-mutations obtained during your lifetime. BRCA1 is a well-known familial variant. A less known gene in the clinical arena is p53 (Dr. Bargonetti's research focus) is usually mutated as a sporadic variant. She believes that p53 might be a common molecular target to help disarm multiple breast cancer types and will discuss this idea in detail. Pharmacogenomics will be the way to best target the multiple breast cancer varieties. We are already disarming some types of breast cancer disease but we have a long road ahead of us for some others.
Date:
October 5, 2009
Time:
6:00 PM
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7:00 PM
College:
The University
Address:
Kouzan Japanese Restaurant
685 Amsterdam Ave, NY NY
Building:
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Room:
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Phone:
2127945470
Website:
Admission:
$10 (includes one beverage)
