Cancer & Signaling Discussion Group
Cancer research has revealed that complex systems of molecular pathways drive tumor formation. By understanding these pathways, scientists hope to identify molecular targets within them that would be receptive to drugs in ways that could interrupt cancer progression.
The Cancer & Signaling Discussion Group provides a forum for exploring the molecular networks that ensure proper cell cycle progression, and how alterations in these networks modulate gene expression, cause mutations, and lead to carcinogenesis. Meetings of the group focus on specific themes related to signal transduction dysregulation in oncogenesis, and cover basic, clinical, and diagnostic aspects of the field.