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SUO 2006 Highlights
CPDR Presentations at the 7th Annual Society for Urologic Oncology meeting, 2006 held in Natcher Conference Center
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, December 1-2, 2006
December 20, 2006
The Center for Prostate Disease Research was represented by five presentations at the 7th Annual Society for Urologic Oncology Meeting held in Bethesda, Maryland
December 1-2, 2006. Presentations were from the Clinical Research programs lead by Dr. David McLeod and Basic Science Research programs lead by Dr. Shiv Srivastava.
Among the presentations from the Center for Prostate Disease Research Basic Science Research programs, Dr. Gyorgy Petrovics in his podium presentation discussed key findings on the potential for ERG gene expression measurements for prostate cancer diagnosis, which is a follow up on the original CPDR discovery of frequent ERG overexpression in primary prostate tumors. Dr Jun Miki presented the isolation and characterization of pluripotent stem cells derived from telomerase immortalized prostate cell lines. The conference was beneficial for clinical and basic researchers.
The CPDR mission is fulfilled primarily through its three principal programs – the Clinical Research Center, the Basic Science Research Program and the National Multicenter Prostate Cancer Database– and through a robust education and training program that operates out of its Headquarters location, the Clinical Research Center, and the original laboratories at USUHS. CPDR is also committed to patient outreach, primarily through its affiliation with the WRAMC US TOO! organization and through a heavy schedule of health fairs in which it participates.
