Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientific Series event to be held May 1

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientific Series is a quarterly, extended conference featuring presentations by members who received pilot funding after competitive peer-review by the Cancer Center.

We invite you to join us in the Wolstein Research Building on Wednesday, May 1 as Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) researchers present findings from their pilot projects supported by the Research Innovation Fund. Researchers will offer an overview of their scientific discoveries and outlines of what comes next for their projects.

Breakfast will begin in conference room 1-422D at 8:30 am with presentations following in the WRB Auditorium (1-413) at 9 am. Learn more about the conference.

The following projects will be presented:

“New Paradigm: Protein Tyrosine Nitration in Tumorigenesis”

John Wang, PhD
Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences
Vice Chair for Faculty Development
Co-Leader, GI Cancer Genetics Program, Case CCC
Case Western Reserve University

“Interrogation of Gonadal Versus Chromosomal Sex Differences in GBM Models”

Eckhard Jankowsky, PhD
Professor, RNA Science and Therapeutics, Biochemistry
Member, Molecular Oncology Program, Case CCC
Case Western Reserve University

“Developing BAFF-R CAR-T Cells to Target Malignant B Cells”

Reshmi Parameswaran, PhD
Professor, Pathology, Pediatrics, Medicine
Member, Hematopoietic and Immune Cancer Biology Program, Case CCC
Case Western Reserve University

“Targeting Cross-Talk Between Domains in Estrogen Receptor”

Hung-Ying Kao, PhD
Professor, Biochemistry
Member, Molecular Oncology Program, Case CCC
Case Western Reserve University

Sichun Yang, PhD
Associate Professor, Nutrition
Member, Molecular Oncology Program, Case CCC
Case Western Reserve University