Lisa Coussens
On Thursday, September 27, UCSF Public Affairs hosted "Cutting Both Ways: Inflammation as Cause and Consequence of Disease," the first in the department's
Research Perspectives series designed to offer journalists access to the nation's leading scientists in an examination of emerging research fields with great potential for treatments and cures. "Cutting Both Ways" explored the role of inflammation in cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, heart attack, stroke and other potential killers, and promising therapies that draw on this new understanding.
On Friday, September 28, speakers and members of the faculty advisor committee for Thursday's event joined
Forum guest host Dave Iversen in a discussion about the key role that chronic inflammation plays in heart disease and Alzheimer's, its possible link to cancer, and how understanding this role may aid in the development of new treatments for these diseases.
The
Forum panel included Cynthia Lemere, PhD, associate neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, who spoke Thursday about "Inflammation in Alzheimer's Disease: the Good, the Bad and the Unknown"; Israel Charo, MD, PhD, associate director and senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and professor of medicine at UCSF; and Lisa Coussens, PhD, professor of pathology and Cancer Research Institute at UCSF, whose Thursday presentation was entitled "Inflammation as a Target for Anti-Cancer Therapy."
Related Links:
Inflammation and Disease
Forum, KQED-FM (NPR), September 28, 2007
Antibody Signal May Redirect Inflammation to Fuel Cancer
UCSF News Release, February 19, 2007
UCSF Studies Illuminate Possible New Landscape for Targeting Cancer
UCSF News Release, March 15, 2001
