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Melanoma
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that is created by melanocyctes that have mutated. Melanocytes are pigment cells that are found on the skin. However, melanoma can occur in the intestines and eyes in more rare cases. Melanoma is a common form of cancer and considered the most dangerous form, there a more than 200,000 cases per year. Treatment can include: radiation, surgery, medication, or chemotherapy.
DEC 17, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: December 17, 2019TIME: 8:00am PSTMass cytometry instruments simultaneously measure >50 cellular features, with a typical experiment including millions of cells. Dysregulated...
DEC 04, 2019 | 7:00 AM
DATE: December 4, 2019TIME: 7:00am PST, 10:00am EST, 4:00pm CET Do you know how it feels when you just quickly want to redo an experiment that your colleague did, or an experim...
NOV 18, 2019 | 7:00 AM
DATE: November 18, 2019TIME: 7:00am PST, 11:00am EST, 4:00pm CEWT How often do you pipette in your cell culture lab every day? Usually, we do it so often that we tend stop th...
SEP 26, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Early detection is critical for improved survival in melanoma. Melanocytic nevi are extremely common benign tumors that mimic melanoma and are therefore commonly biopsied. Currently, the dete...
JUL 23, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: July 23, 2019TIME: 10:00am PDTThe tumor microenvironment is a complex network of different cell types and states that imparts distinct properties to the tumor and plays a signif...
JUN 25, 2019 | 5:00 PM
DATE: June 25, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT, 5:00pm CEST Viscous liquids are a challenge in every lab that deals with them. Depending on how viscous a liquid is, pipettin...
JUN 19, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: June 19, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT Approximately 80% of all cancers are known to be affected by both somatic mutations and copy number changes. Furthermore, r...
FEB 27, 2019 | 12:00 PM
Surgery is the first line of treatment for Stage III melanoma. Often adjuvant therapy is administered post-surgery, which can include weeks of radiation, chemotherapy, targeted drug therapy,...
DEC 12, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: December 12, 2018TIME: 07:00am PST, 10:00am EST Currently, the Cleveland Clinic Biorepository is an assembly of several biobanks tog...
OCT 10, 2018 | 9:00 AM
In prior work, we have pursued how tumor reactive monoclonal antibody (mAb), together with activators of innate immune cells, like NK cells, can augment antibody dependent cell-mediated cytot...
MAY 09, 2018 | 12:00 PM
In this presentation I will describe results from a family study designed to identify the genetic cause for familial clustering of several early onset cancers. Data from next generatio...
FEB 22, 2018 | 9:00 AM
The field of melanoma has been transformed by the parallel development of effective immune and targeted therapies. There is now strong evidence of cross-talk between oncogenic signaling...
FEB 21, 2018 | 6:00 AM
We recently reported that HDAC6 is involved in the regulation of a number of immunosuppressive checkpoint proteins, including the Program Death Receptor Ligand 1 (PD-L1). This protein is one...
JAN 25, 2018 | 10:00 AM
DATE: January 25, 2018TIME: 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST, 6:00pm GMTOncolytic virotherapy, the use of viral vectors to treat cancer, holds huge promise. Viruses are natural DNA delivery vehi...
NOV 08, 2017 | 12:00 PM
Currently, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in North America, the most frequent malignancy in men from all ethnicities, surpassing lung cancer. Prostate tumors...
