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Session I. Cancer Stem Cell & Niche : Revisit of Seed and Soil Theory ?



 

Isaiah J Fidler, DVM, PhD
[General Overview] "The Pathogenesis of Cancer Metastasis"

Professor and Chairman, Department of Cancer Biology;
R. E. “Bob” Smith Distinguished Chair in Cell Biology
Professor, Department of Urology, and
Director, Cancer Metastasis Research Center, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

 
  Gou Young Koh, MD, PhD (Interactive Role of VEGF-A and Angiopoietin-2 in Tumor Angiogenesis and Metastasis)

Professor, Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
 
 

Toshio Suda, MD, PhD (Stem cells and their Niche)

Professor, Developmental Biology, The Sakaguchi Laboratory,
School of Medicine, Keio University
Director, Center for Integrated Medical Research, Japan

 
 

Isaiah J Fidler, DVM, PhD
(Targeting the Organ Microenvironment for Treatment of Metastasis)

Professor and Chairman, Department of Cancer Biology;
R. E. “Bob” Smith Distinguished Chair in Cell Biology
Professor, Department of Urology, and
Director, Cancer Metastasis Research Center, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

 

 

Session II. Role of Cancer Stem Cell in Metastasis


 

Rene Bernards, PhD ("Mechanisms of cancer drug resistance revealed through functional genetic approaches")

Head , Division of Molecular Carcinogenesis ,
Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 
  Sunghoon Kim, PhD (Discovery of A Novel Factor in Cancer Metastasis)

Professor and Director, Center for Medicinal Protein Network and Systems Biology
College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Korea

 
  Kohei Miyazono, MD, PhD
(TGF-beta signaling in regulation of cancer-initiating cells)


Professor and chair, Department of Molecular Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine , University of Tokyo, Japan

 

Session III. Targeted Therapy Against Cancer Stem Cell



 

Do-Hyun Nam , MD , PhD
(Personalized drug discovery based on cancer stem cell biology)


Professor , Department of Neurosurgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Korea

 
 

Atsushi Iwama, MD, PhD
(Role of the polycomb proteins in normal and cancer stem cells )


Professor , Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan

 
 

Frederic J. de Sauvage, PhD
(Targeting the Hedgehog Pathway in Cancer)


Professor , Vice President, Research Molecular Biology, Genentech Inc., USA