Recent Invited Talks & Presentations

“PBEF.”  Cytokine Odyssey 2001: A joint meeting of the International Cytokine Society and the Society for the Leukocyte Biology, Wailea, Maui, HI (2001)

“Pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF) and interleukin-8 relationships in the human fetal membranes.”  49^th Annual Society for Gynecological Investigations Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (2002)

“Pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF): Its place in the cytokine cascade."  Annual Biomedical Sciences Symposium, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (2002)

“The role of pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF) in the human fetal membranes.”  27^th Annual Albert L. Tester Memorial Symposium, Honolulu, HI (2002)

"Pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF), a new cytokine involved in cell growth." Eighth RCMI International Symposium on Health Disparities, Honolulu, HI (2002)

"Pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF) induces growth of the human fetal membranes via upregulation of a cyclin-dependant kinase and AP-1."  Society for Gynecological Investigations 50^th Annual Meeting, Washington DC (2003)

"Pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF): A key player in the initiation of labor." Society for Gynecological Investigations 50^th Annual Meeting, Washington DC (2003)

"Pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor inhibits apoptosis in the human gestational tissues."  4^th World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynecology & Infertility, Berlin, Germany (2003)

"Pre-B cell colony-enhancing factor (PBEF): Properties as a cytokine in the fetal membranes."  Society for Gynecological Investigations 51^st Annual Meeting, Houston, TX (2004)

"NAT2, meat consumption and CRC incidence: an ecological study of 27 countries." ESEC meeting, Budapest, Hungary (2005)

"The relationships of serum CRP and IL-6 levels with lifestyle factors, race/ethnicity and colorectal adenoma risk."  AACR Annual meeting, Washington, DC (2006)

"The association between interleukin 9 (IL-9) levels and acute graft versus host disease (GVDH) in AML patients after bone marrow transplantation." AACR Annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA (2007)

"Introduction to ISET study pilots and epidemiology of rhabdomyosarcoma."  International Study of Embryonal Tumors Study Center, Serbia (2007)

Session Chair:  "Preclinical models and therapeutic approaches."  International Liver Cancer Conference, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France (2007)

"Genetic polymorphisms in the cytokine genes and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma."  AACR Annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA (2008)