Focus: trends in cancer treatment and prevention

When cancer research makes a breakthrough with a new drug or strategy, it rightfully stirs up a lot of excitement. But turn the spotlight on day-to-day work in laboratories and clinics and you will find encouragement and some amazing successes. Weekly Research-In-Progress meetings at The MCG Cancer Center give affiliated researchers and guest speakers an opportunity to update their colleagues on such successes. The gatherings typically draw an enthusiastic crowd from across the MCG campus.

Speaking events

Dr. Kapil N. Bhalla, director of The MCG Cancer Center, will be among researchers presenting work to the 51st meeting of the American Society of Hematology Dec. 5-8 in New Orleans, La. His abstracts include:

• Synergistic Activity of Co-treatment with PIM1 Kinase Inhibitor SGI-1776 and Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Panobinostat or Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibitor AUY922 Against Human CML and Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (MPN) Cells
  
• Targeting Levels, Aberrant Localization or Oligomerization of Mutant Nucleophosmin Induces Differentiation and Loss of Survival of Human AML Cells with Mutant NPM1
• Down-regulation of microRNA 223 and 148a Mediates Resistance of Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells to Pan-Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Inhibitors.

To view all of Dr. Bhalla's selections, see the ASH program.

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