Cancer Imaging: Promises to Keep

• October 14, 2006: 7:45am - 5:30pm
• More Information: http://www.qb3.org
• Location: Byers Auditorium, Genentech Hall, UCSF Mission Bay Campus

This symposium will feature state of the art imaging for staging cancer and detecting recurrent disease. Recognizing the limitations in sensitivity and specificity of current technology, exciting, new approaches in various stages of development will be presented. These technologies will cover the spectrum from clinical trials, pre-clinical mouse models, to development of new imaging agents. Symposium discussants represent leaders in basic and applied chemistry, physics and bioengineering research. It is expected that these advances will also result in the ability to determine the potential of tumors to spread as well as provide in real time responsiveness of tumors to targeted cancer therapies.

Speakers Include:

Paul Alivisatos, UC Berkeley
Carolyn Bertozzi, QB3 UC Berkeley
Doug Hanahan, QB3 UCSF
John Kurhanewicz, QB3 UCSF
Frank McCormick, UCSF
Sarah Nelson, QB3 UCSF
Marc Shuman, QB3 UCSF
Alex Pines, QB3 UC Berkeley
Nick van Bruggen, Genentech, Inc.

Attendance is free for academia. Registration will be available on www.qb3.org in the near future.

We would also like to advise your colleagues to attend and to encourage you to present a poster (as an added inducement we are offering the poster selected as best by the attendees an iPod Nano).