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McCormick to Participate in Live Chat
Frank McCormick, director of the UCSF Cancer Research
Institute, will be a panelist on an upcoming "live chat" on the topic of how
viruses can be used to kill cancer. McCormick's laboratory at UCSF is tracking down the
fundamental difference between normal and cancer cells that allows virus killing.
Bio Online, an Internet portal for the Life Sciences, is hosting the event, which is
titled "Advances in Research -- Oncolytic Viruses: A New Horizon for Cancer
Therapy," on Wednesday, July 28, 5-6 p.m. (PT).
The moderator for the chat is Steven Linke from the Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis at
the National Cancer Institute. In addition to McCormick, the panel members include Daniel
Henderson, founder, president, and CEO of Calydon; Patrick Lee, of the Cancer Biology
Research Group and Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of
Calgary Health Science Centre; and Frank Tufaro, Chief Scientific Officer and founder of
NeuroVir, Inc., and associate professor, University of British Columbia.
These leading scientists, who are engaged in oncolytic virus research -- which holds
promise in killing tumor cells without harming tissue -- will exchange views and
answer questions from the live audience during the chat. This information exchange will be
valuable for cancer researchers, scientists and the general public to share knowledge
about progress in research to treat cancer.
Bio Online exists to create a distributed online community of scientists, professionals,
businesses and organizations supporting the life sciences for the purpose of facilitating
communications and disseminating information within that community.
The chat can be found at www.bio.com/chatevents/virus.
Links:
Bio Online
July 28 live chat
McCormick lab
UCSF Observation Could
Explain Ability of Modified Cold Virus to Kill Cancer Cells |
