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USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center 1st Annual Symposium

USC has been selected to establish a $16 million cancer research center as part of a new strategy against the disease by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and its National Cancer Institute. As part of our NCI Physical Sciences Oncology Center, we will be hosting our First Annual Symposium. By partnering with scientists from various non-biology disciplines such as physics, mathematics, chemistry, and engineering, the NCI envisions through a combination of 1) challenging "accepted" dogma; 2) generating orthogonal sets of data and integrating them with existing knowledge; and 3) integrating novel conceptual approaches from these different fields that new perspectives and novel approaches will emerge to help generate answers to some of the major questions and barriers in cancer research. The new center is one of 12 in the nation to receive the designation as a Physical Science-Oncology Center. During the five-year initiative, the Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers will take new, non-traditional approaches to cancer research by studying the physical laws and principles of cancer; evolution and evolutionary theory of cancer; information coding, decoding, transfer and translation in cancer; and ways to de-convolute cancer's complexity.Register at: http://bit.ly/USCPSOC2010Speakers include: Physical Sciences Measurement Platforms - Michael Snyder, Stanford University; Shan Wang, Stanford; University; and Scott Manalis, MITCancer Evolution - John Pepper, University of Arizona; Jasmine Foo, Memorial Sloan-Kettering; and Darryl Shibata, University of Southern CaliforniaPhysical Sciences in Industry - Scott Patterson, AMGEN; David Parkinson, NODALITY; and Mark Chee, Prognosys BiosciencesPhysical Sciences Oncology Centers from around the Nation - Denis Wirtz, Johns Hopkins University; Robert Gatenby, Moffitt; Peter Kuhn, Scripps; Robert "Bob" Austin, Princeton University; and Jan Liphardt, UC Berkeley

Location: Davidson Conference Center - UPC Campus

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Yvonne Suarez