A five-day residential summer course for postdoctoral fellows and early researchers from Hong Kong and overseas; promising postgraduate students will also be considered. World-renowned international and local speakers will participate and engage in interactive discussions with all registrants.
Course Directors: Professor Irene OL Ng & Professor Tak W Mak (Overseas)
Overseas Speakers:
Professor Alan Ashworth - Institute of Cancer Research, UK
Professor Stephen Baylin - Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research, Johns Hopkins University
Professor Lewis Cantley - Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, USA
Professor Andy Futreal - MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, USA
Professor Tak W Mak - Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Center, University of Toronto, Canada
Professor Lorenz Poellinger - Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, Singapore and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Professor Sven Pettersson - Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Professor Karen Vousden - Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow
Topics to Cover:
Cancer epigenetics
Cancer genetics
Cancer genomics
P53 and cancer
Cancer metabolism
Cancer immunotherapy
Microbes and cancer
Hypoxia and cancer
Application Deadline for Summer Course: 31 May 2013 (Fri)
For registration and further details, please visit the website at http://www.patho.hku.hk/events/croucher/crouchersc/2013/index.html. or contact the Course Secretariat Ms Selina Lam at 2255 5912 or selina@hku.hk.
