Solving the Mystery of Why Cancer Happens
Nancy Magnuson, Ph.D.
Herbert Eastlick Distinguished Professor
School of Molecular Biosciences
College of Sciences
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Meydenbauer Center
11100 NE 6th Street
Bellevue, WA 98004
Registration: 11:30 a.m.
Lunch Program: Noon-1:30 p.m.
Reservations: $40 per person (includes lunch)
Imagine a future in which oncologists—using gene analysis—prescribe new chemotherapeutic agents to arrest or even eliminate malignant tumors in their patients.
Cancer researcher Nancy Magnuson is working to transform that dream into reality. The Herbert Eastlick Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Dr. Magnuson is focusing her research on a gene that helps cells survive but also causes cancer.
The gene, pim 1, and its product protein, Pim-1, a known promoter of cancer cell growth, are the focus of her research. Because the protein promotes cell survival, Dr. Magnuson believes that ability may also be the key to Pim-1's role in promoting the production of cancerous cells. Solving that puzzle could lead to the development of chemotherapeutic agents that will selectively eliminate cancer cells.
Dr. Magnuson earned a bachelor's degree from UCLA and a doctorate in immunology from Washington State University. She serves on the board of directors of the Spokane chapter of the American Cancer Society, the advisory board of the WSU Cancer Prevention and Research Center, the review panel for grant awards for prostate and breast cancer research from the U.S. Army, and the review panel for grant awards for the National Cancer Institute in Washington, D.C.
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