Xavier University's RCMI Calendar

13th RCMI Symposium on Health Disparities
December 10-13, 2012
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Call for abstracts.
January 6-May 4, 2012

Dr. McNairy Tribute
http://www.rcmibiennial.org/release.html

LCRC and RCMI Monday Cancer Research Discussion Meetings at Xavier
Noon – 1:00pm
Room 420 Xavier College of Pharmacy
Lunch provided (11:45am)

Date                                                                Presenter

Monday January 16, 2012                               Martin Luther King’s Birthday Holiday

Monday January 23, 2012                               Updates and Q&A session

Monday January 30, 2012                               Hector Biliran, Ph.D.

Monday February 6, 2012                               Qian-Jin Zhang, Ph.D.

Monday February 13, 2012                       

Monday February 20, 2012                             Lundi Gras Holiday

Monday February 27, 2012                             Zongbing You, M.D., Ph.D.
IL-17-MMP7 Axis in Prostate Cancer Formation and Growth

Monday March 5, 2012                                   Thomas Huckaba, Ph.D.

Monday March 12, 2012                                 KiTani Parker-Johnson, Ph.D.

Monday March 19, 2012                                 Vimal Kishore, Ph.D.

Monday March 26, 2012                                 Robert Stratford, Ph.D.

Monday April 2, 2012                                     Stassi DiMaggio, Ph.D.

Monday April 9, 2012                                     Vladimir Kolesnichenko, Ph.D.

Monday April 16, 2012                                   Kelly Johanson, Ph.D.

Monday April 23, 2012                                   Mehnaaz Ali, Ph.D.
Monday April 30, 2012                                   Partha Bhattacharjee’s Lab

Monday May 7, 2012                                      Karen (Kun) Zhang, Ph.D.

RCMI Seed Grant Awarded during the 2011 - 2012 funding period:

1. Dr. Danielle Broussard, Clinical and Administrative Sciences
   “Vitamin D Status among Community-Dwelling Black/African American Women and Men”
   Award funding period 1/6/12 – 7/31/12

RCMI Supported Faculty:

1. Dr. Syreeta Tilghman, Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences
   “Glyceollilln, a Novel Therapeutic Agent For Letrozole Resistant Human Breast Cancer”
2. Dr. Qian-Jin Zhang, Biology
   "T-cell Mediated Immune Response against Tumor Immune Escape Variants"
3. Dr. Terry Watt, Chemistry
   "Determination of the Molecular Specificity Requirements for Substrates of
   HDACs"
4. Dr. Florastina Payton-Stewart, Chemistry
   "Synthesis of novel anticancer agents which target the PI3K/Akt signaling
   pathway"
5. Dr. Thomas Huckaba, Biology
   “Characterization of the functions of human mitotic kinesins in cancer progression"