Cancer Center News

• Scientist Trudy Forte and her graduate student Mina Nikanjam use LDL nanodiscs to deliver chemotherapy to brain tumor cells [download Trudy Forte's Nano article]
  
  
• Jonathan Rowland of Pathology Department prepares for initiation of the CHRCO Pediatric Tissue Bank [download Tissue Bank description]
  
  
• Cancer Center welcomes Dr. Ervin Epstein, a dermatologist whose research is focused on the causes and treatment of skin cancer [link to invest. Website—pending]
  
  
• Shand And William Green donate $20K to leukemia research fund
  
  
• CHORI Cancer Center will join up with the UCSF Pediatric Oncology division to hold a joint Pediatric Malignancies Research Retreat.  The event will be held at the Laurel Heights campus on May 16, 2007, 9am-4pm.  [download the Pediatric Malignancies Retreat 2007 Program]