Han-Mo Koo Seminar Series

Speaker: Cory Abate-Shen, Ph.D.
VAI Host:  Swiatek , Pam, Ph.D., MBA
Speaker Affiliation: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Herbert Irving Cancer Center
Speaker Title: Professor and Director of Research, Department of Urology
Date: April 30, 2008
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Location: Van Andel Institute - Tomatis Auditorium

Cory T. Abate-Shen, Ph.D., who joined Columbia University Medical Center in September 2007, is Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Urology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a member of the Cancer Center’s Prostate Cancer Program.

Dr. Abate- Shen attended graduate school at Cornell University Medical College, obtaining her Ph.D. in Neurobiology in 1987. Dr. Abate-Shen pursued her postdoctoral training with Tom Curran at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology. Her highly productive post-doctoral career included seminal observations on the redox regulation of the protooncoproteins Fos and Jun, which inspired many subsequent studies on the redox control of other transcriptional regulatory proteins.

In 1991 Dr. Abate-Shen joined the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology and the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as an Assistant Professor. She rose to the rank of Professor by 2001, and was appointed Chief of a new Division in the Department of Medicine in 2002. In addition, Dr. Abate-Shen created the Prostate Program for the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and served as its co-leader from 1999 until moving to Columbia University Medical Center.

Dr. Abate-Shen’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of homeobox genes in development and cancer. Her major research interests have included deciphering the molecular bases of homeoprotein specificity, and her laboratory has recently contributed groundbreaking insights regarding the fundamental question of how homeoproteins achieve target gene recognition in vivo. Furthermore, her interests in elucidating the roles of homeobox genes in cancer have led to the development of mouse models of prostate cancer that have been widely utilized for investigating the molecular basis of prostate tumorigenesis as well as pre-clinical models for intervention and therapy.

Dr. Abate-Shen is a member of the NCI Board of Scientific Counselors, she serves on the editorial board of Molecular and Cellular Biology and is an Associate Editor of Cancer Research, and she has recently been appointed Deputy Editor of AACR’s new journal Cancer Prevention Research.

In person attendance.

Van Andel Research Institute
Tomatis Auditorium
333 Bostwick Ave., N.E.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
49503

“This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Michigan State Medical Society Committee on CME Accreditation through the joint sponsorship of the Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research Center for Health Professions and the Van Andel Research Institute. The Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research Center for Health Professions is accredited by the Michigan State Medical Society Committee on CME Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Grand Rapids Medical Education & Research Center for Health Professions designates this educational activity for a maximum of one Category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.”

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