The 35th annual UNC Lineberger scientific symposium attracted more than 530 participants. Held at the Friday Center on April 27-28, 2011, the event featured speakers on “Cell Metabolism and Cancer.”
UNC Lineberger membersYue Xiong, PhD and Al Baldwin, PhD served as chairs for this event. Lewis Cantley from Harvard University; Craig Thompson from Memorial Sloan-Kettering; and Tak Mak from Ontario Cancer Institute gave Lineberger lectures.
Other speakers were: Eileen White, Cancer Institute of New Jersey/Rutgers; Kun-Liang Guan, UCSD; Karen Vousden, Beatson Institute; David Beach, Barts and the London School of Medicine; Yue Xiong, UNC Lineberger; Massimo Loda, Harvard; Yanping Zhang, UNC Lineberger; Richard Cerione, Cornell; and Scott Biller, Agios Pharmaceuticals.
Session chairs were David Threadgill, N.C. State University; Mohanish Deshmukh, UNC Lineberger; and Sally Kornbluth, Duke University.
Many thanks to our sponsors who made the event possible.
Presenting Sponsor
- LabCorp
Supporting Sponsor
- Lilly
Associate Sponsor
- Gilead Sciences, Inc
- North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Patron
- Agios Pharmeceuticals
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Cell Signaling Technology
- Karyologic, Inc.
- Talecris Biotherapeutics
Friend
- Myers, Bigel, Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.
- Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research