Grand Rounds

Fall 2008

Wednesdays 8:00 A.M.

*PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF LABORATORY MEDICINE AND PATHOLOGY GRAND ROUNDS WILL BE MEETING IN 3-100 MAYO FROM SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER 2008.

October

October 1, 2008
Dr. Jose Jessurun, Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, "Fetishism in Pathology"

October 7, 2008
Dr. Derek Radisky, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL, "Matrix Metalloproteinase-Induced Fibrosis and Cancer in Breast and Lung"

October 15, 2008
Dr. George Vasmatzis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Rochester, MN.  "Differential transcriptomics for the prognosis and sub-typing of cancer"

October 22, 2008
Dr. Michael Busch

October 29, 2008
TBD

September

September 3
Dr. David A. Potter, Associate Professor of Medicine and the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center, "Ritonavir:  From Drug to Pathways in Breast Cancer"

September 10
Dr. Tsuneya Ikezu, Durham Research Center, Nebraska Medical Center, "Glial Inflammation and Protein Kinases as Therapeutic Targets of Alzheimer’s and Tauopathy Diseases:  From Animal Models to Therapeutic Inventions"

September 17
Brian Van Ness, Professor and Head, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development, University of Minnesota. "Genomics and Personalized Medicine"

September 24
Lawrence Burgart, MD, Staff Pathologist, Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, University of Minnesota. "DNA Mismatch and Repair and Colon Cancer"