19th
Annual Scientific Meeting
June 9, 2006
University of Illinois - Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
The Great
Lakes Chapter of ASPET held its annual meeting on June 09, 2006
at University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL. The
meeting was attended by over 80 pharmacologists from the greater
Chicago area and the surrounding states of Wisconsin, Indiana
and Michigan. This year’s symposium was focused on the theme
“Cancer: Emerging Targets and Therapies”. The
symposium featured an outstanding panel of speakers including:
Jacqueline Bromberg, clinician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center, New York, who discussed her work on “Inhibition
of JAK and STAT proteins in tumor malignancy formation,” Steve
Elmore, research scientist from Abbott Laboratories Cancer
Therapeutics, who discussed his work on “Small molecule
inhibitors of Bcl-2 family proteins: a novel approach to
cancer therapy”; and Don Davidson, research scientist, from
Abbott Laboratories Cancer Therapeutics, who discussed
“Apoptosis of endothelial and tumor cells by Kringle 5 and a
thrombospondin-mimetic inhibits tumor growth”. The keynote
address was presented by Michael Sporn, noted clinician from
Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, and prominent cancer
biologist with over 35 years of Cancer biology and therapeutics
experience at the NIH Cancer. Michael’s talk was entitled “New
synthetic triterpenoids and rexinoids: multifunctional agents
with many potential clinical applications, both for prevention
and treatment of disease”.
Along with this outstanding symposium and keynote address, the
meeting featured a career workshop, vendor exhibits, a poster
session and the annual student and postdoctoral research
competitions. The winners of the research competitions
were:
Graduate Student Awards
1st Syed
Ahmed, University of Michigan
Medical School
1st Brinda Desai, Rush
University
2nd Fadi Khasawneh,
University of Illinois-Chicago
3rd Marija Milenkovic,
University of Illinois-Chicago
Postdoctoral Fellow Awards
1st
Francis Edwin,
Loyola University
2nd Rajesh Kumar,
University of Illinois-Chicago
The GLC-ASPET
Executive Committee gratefully acknowledges support for the
meeting from: ASPET; Abbott Laboratories;
Chirality LLC; Indiana University School of Medicine -
Northwest; Loyola University School of Medicine, Department of
Pharmacology; Medical College of Wisconsin, Department of
Pharmacology; Midwestern University; Northwestern University,
Rosalind Franklin University, Department of Cellular and
Molecular Pharmacology; Rush Medical College, Department of
Pharmacology; University of Illinois at Chicago College of
Medicine, Department of Pharmacology. In addition, we
would like
to thank the following vendor exhibitors for their support:
ADInstruments, Inc., Clever Sys, Inc., EMD Biosciences, Kimble
Glass, Inc., Mallinckrodt Baker, W. Nuhsbaum, Inc.
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GLC-ASPET President Elizabet(Bess)
Everitt opens the 19th Annual
Scientific Meeting for the chapter
on 09 June 2006, at the University
of Illinois at Chicago campus.
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Executive Committee GLC-ASPET
Vice-President Karie Scrogin, from
Loyola University (right), and Vicki
Sears and Peter Lamar, both from
Midwestern University (left and
center) staff the meeting
registration. The 19th Annual
GLC Meeting marked the first time
online-registration and abstract
submission had been offered to
attendees for the meeting.
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GLC-ASPET Scientific Meeting attendees enjoy a
mid-afternoon break of chatting, networking, and
refreshments between the Symposium and the Keynote
Address.
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GLC-ASPET Executive Committee members attend a dinner
after the Annual Scientific Meeting. In the foreground
are (left) President Elizabeth (Bess) Everitt from
Baxter Healthcare, and (tight) Councilor Karen Snapp,
from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In the
background are Symposium speakers Don Davidson (behind
Dr. Everitt) and Steve Elmore (green shirt) both from
Abbott Laboratories.
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