Inaugural Croucher Summer Course in Cancer Biology 2013 (14-18 Aug 2013)

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.