Charles Sawyers
UCLA investigator Charles Sawyers, MD, will present two lectures on the Parnassus campus next week as the 2005 Maurice, Ethel, and Jane Sokolow Memorial Cancer Endowment Lectureship speaker.
On Wednesday, Sept. 14, Sawyers will speak on "Mechanisms in Prostate Cancer Progression," at 4 p.m. in the School of Nursing building, room 225. On Thursday, Sept. 15, he will present "Kinase Inhibitors in Cancer Therapy" at Medical Grand Rounds, at noon in Health Sciences West, room 300.
A professor of medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at UCLA and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Sawyers studies the molecular abnormalities in leukemia and prostate cancer that lead to abnormal growth and cellular transformation. His prostate cancer research is focused on defining the roles of the PTEN phosphatase, the HER-2/neu receptor tyrosine kinase, and the c-myc oncogene. Sawyers's leukemia-directed research has elucidated mechanisms of BCR/ABL-induced transformation and the molecular basis of resistance to Gleevec. For more about his research, go to the UCLA website
here.
Cardiologist Maurice Sokolow, MD, was a creative researcher, respected teacher and beloved member of the UCSF community from 1936 until 2002. After the deaths of Sokolow's daughter, Jane, from Burkitt's lymphoma in July 1970, and that of his wife, Ethel, from a breast malignancy the following December, the Ethel and Jane Sokolow Visiting Scientist Program was established at UCSF by their families, classmates and friends. Upon the death of Maurice Sokolow in 2002, the fund was renamed as the Maurice, Ethel and Jane Sokolow Memorial Cancer Endowment Lectureship.
For more information about Sokolow, go
here.
