Registration is now Closed

The Department of Cancer/Cell Biology and the Cincinnati Cancer Consortium are pleased to launch the Annual Cincinnati Cancer Symposium Series. The 2009 inaugural symposium will focus on Nuclear Receptors to honor the contributions of Dr. Elwood Jensen.

The symposium will include invited talks by several leading scientists in the field as well as contributed poster presentations and short talks (selected from the submitted Abstracts).

Invited speakers:

John Baxter, University of Houston

Myles Brown, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Bill Chin, Eli Lilly Company

Pierre Chambon, IGBMC           

John Cidlowski, NIEHS

Nancy Davidson, University of Pittsburgh

Ron Evans, Salk Institute

Geoffrey Greene, University of Chicago

Jan-Ake Gustafsson, Karolinska Institute

Gordon Hager, National Cancer Institute

V. Craig Jordan, Vincent Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

Mitch Lazar, University of Pennsylvania

Donald McDonnell, Duke University        

Bert O'Malley, Baylor College of Medicine

Fraydoon Rastinejad, University of Virginia

Bob Roeder, Rockefeller University

Charles Sawyers, Memorial Sloan Kettering

Bruce Spiegelman, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Keith Yamamoto, UCSF

If you register for the conference and you find you cannot attend, you will receive a full refund by calling 513-558-1810 or e-mailing univconf@uc.edu by 10/10/2009. No refunds will be processed after this date. Substitutions may be made at any time.

Lodging information:
Rooms have been reserved at the Kingsgate Marriott Conference Center, 151 Goodman Drive, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The special rate is $139 plus tax, single or double. Please make your reservation by calling 888.720.1299 or 513.487.3800 by September 21, 2009 and identifying yourself as a participant of the Jensen Symposium. After September 21, rooms may be reserved on a space and rate available basis.