2012 Travelling Lectureship
CSCC 2012 Travelling Lectureship
sponsored by 
George A. Calin, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Therapeutics
Co-director, The RNA Interference and Non-codingRNA Center
The Alan M. Gewirtz Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Scholar
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston TX
The roles of microRNAs and other non-codingRNAs
in human cancers and the use of this knowledge for patients
SELECTED TOPICS
microRNAs and other non-codingRNA as drivers of tumorigenesis
microRNAs and other non-codingRNAs as biomarkers
Cancer predisposition and microRNAs and other non-codingRNAs
microRNAs as hormones
Therapeutic applications of microRNAs
George Adrian Calin received both his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Carol Davila University of Medicine in Bucharest, Romania. After working cytogenetics as undergraduate student with Dr. Dragos Stefanescu in Bucharest, he completed a cancer genomics training in Dr. Massimo Negrini’s laboratory at University of Ferrara, Italy. In 2000 he became a postdoctoral fellow at Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA, and while working in Dr. Carlo Croce laboratory Dr. Calin was the first to discover the link between human cancers and microRNAs, a finding considered as a milestone in microRNA research history. He has now developed starting from July 2007 an independent research group at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and produced a new advance by linking a new class of non-coding RNAs to cancers, namely the ultraconserved genes. He is presently an Associate Professor in Experimental Therapeutics at MDACC and studies the roles of microRNAs and other non-coding RNAs in cancer initiation and progression and in immune disorders, as well as the mechanisms of cancer predisposition linked to ncRNAs. Furthermore, he explores new RNA therapeutic options for cancer patients.
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