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Huggins Lecture Series
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Dear Friends of the University of Chicago:
Dr. Charles Huggins, the first Director of the Ben May Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago, was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering that hormones are required for breast and prostate cancer growth, a discovery that led to the design of more effective cancer treatments. To celebrate Dr. Huggins great discovery, and recent advances in cancer research, we cordially invite you to the Sixth Annual Charles B. Huggins Lectures, a series of eight lectures describing some of the frontiers of modern science. The lectures are designed for the University community and the public at large. You need not have a background in biological sciences; we appeal to your curiosity and invite you to share the excitement of modern scientific research.
This year the lecture series is entitled “The Immune System and Cancer: A Civil War” and will be given by Judy L. Cannon, Ph.D. The first two lectures will give an overview of the immune system and its relationship to the development of tumor cells. These lectures will provide the background for talks about how the immune system and cancer cells interact with each other, followed by lectures on cancer therapies and how antibodies have been used to create cancer therapeutics. Dr. Cannon will finish with a summary of the future of immunotherapy and the questions that still need to be answered.
These lectures are addressed to a general audience interested in how modern science is being used to better understand and treat or prevent diverse cancers. They will help people understand the immune system and how it relates to cancer and cancer treatments. The lectures may be especially informative to cancer patients, their families, and students in the broadest sense, of all ages and backgrounds, who are interested in cancer.
Sincerely yours,
Geoffrey L. Greene, Ph.D.
Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor
Associate Director, the Ben May Department of Cancer Research
Professor, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Associate Director of Basic Sciences, Cancer Research Center
Chair, Committee on Cancer Biology
Lecture Schedule
For Audio and Video recordings of lectures, go to: http://margrover.com/huggins. If your media player does not support Flash Video, you can download VLC media player for Mac, Windows, or Linux.
Many thanks to Roy Lipscomb for offering his audio and video recordings to the Ben May Department.
The “North: Immune System” and the “South: Tumors.” |
January 12, 2008 |
Power Point 
Adobe PDF“Danger” Signals: Inflammation. How the Immune Systems Recognizes Something is Going Wrong.
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January 19, 2008 |
Is This Me? Or Something Bad? Antigen Recognition of Self vs. Non-Self.
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January 26, 2008 |
The More the Merrier: Immune Cell Expansion
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February 2, 2008 |
Location, location, location: T Cell Trafficking. |
February 9, 2008 |
At the Infection/Tumor Site |
February 16, 2008 |
Using the Immune System to Treat Cancer: How Antibodies has led to the Creation of Cancer Therapeutics. |
February 23, 2008 |
Who Will Win in this Civil War? |
March 1, 2008 |