Oslo University Hospital research seminar March 3rd: Personalized Cancer Medicine – Same Old Brand New Concept?

The next Oslo University Hospital research seminar is entitled:
"Personalized Cancer Medicine – Same Old Brand New Concept?".
Time: Monday, March 3rd, 2014, at 14:30-16:00.
Place: Green Auditorium, Rikshospitalet, Sognsvannsveien 20, Oslo.

Everybody is welcome!

Program:

14:30 Introduction – personalized cancer medicine in clinical practice
Jürgen Geisler, Professor of Clinical Oncology, Akershus University Hospital and University of Oslo (UiO).

14:40 Personalized medicine in cancer metastasis – biology and therapy.
Gunhild M. Mælandsmo, Head of Department, Institute for Cancer Research, OUH.

15:05 Role of medical imaging biomarkers in personalized cancer medicine.
Eirik Malinen, Professor of Medical Physics, Department of Physics, UiO.

15:30 Tailored cancer therapy – expensive and exclusive or beneficial for the individual patient and public health care?
Kjetil Taskén, Director, The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, and the Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), UiO.

Meeting’s chairman: Jürgen Geisler


Forthcoming OUH research seminars in 2014:

24.03: National Core Facility for Human Pluripotent Stem Cells at OUH/UiO: What's in it for you?

07.04: Prescriptions of antibiotics in the primary health care; the role in evolution of antibiotic resistance?


Meeting announcements and information: www.med.uio.no/klinmed/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/andre/ous-seminarer

On behalf of the organizing committee for OUH research seminars,
Alexandre Corthay