Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the discovery of 5-FU by Dr. Charles Heidelberger
at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, UW-Madison
(Fluorinated pyrimidines, a new class of tumour-inhibitory compounds.
Nature 179:663-6, 1957)

The Cancer Pharmacology group at the UWCCC invites faculty, students and fellows, as well as representatives of local biotechnology companies, to attend a series of research seminars on translational cancer research dealing with anti-cancer target and drug discovery, pre-clinical studies and early clinical evaluation of anti-cancer therapies. Those interested in presenting should contact Michael Hoffmann at fmhoffma@wisc.edu.

September 13, 2007	Bryce Nelson VP Research & Development GenTel BioSciences, Inc. Madison, WI Clinical Applications of Multiplex Protein Detection in Serum
October 11, 2007	Manish Patankar Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology UW-Madison The role of the mucin MUC16 (CA125) in pathogenesis of ovarian cancer and other gynecologic conditions
November 8, 2007	B .Jack Longley Department of Dermatology UW-Madison MAGE Tumor Antigens Bind Kap-1, Suppress p53, and are Novel Targets for Cancer Therapy
December 13, 2007	Shannon Kenney Departments of Oncology and Medicine UW-Madison Development of New EBV-based Therapies For EBV-positive Malignancies
January 10, 2008	David Vail Director, Center for Clinical Trials and Research School of Veterinary Medicine UW-Madison Spontaneous tumor models in companion (pet) species: Bridging the gap between drug discover and application
February 14, 2008	Richard Halberg Department of Oncology UW-Madison Monitoring the Response of Colonic Tumors in Mouse Models to Drug Therapy Using Optical and Virtual Colonoscopy
March 13, 2008	Nicholas L. Abbott Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison Biomolecular Analysis using Liquid Crystals
April 10, 2008	Herb Chen Department of Surgery UW-Madison Pharmacologic activation of the Notch1 signaling pathway: a possible therapeutic strategy for neuroendocrine cancers
May 8, 2008	Weiping Tang Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UW-Madison Selective Inhibition of Histone Deacetylases in Cells and Tissues