Glioblastoma Initiating/Stem Cells: The Biological and Therapeutic Implications of a Changing Paradigm (NIH-Only) |
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| Air date: | Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 8:00:00 AM |
| Category: | NCI CCR Grand Rounds (NIH Only) |
| Description: | Dr. Fine received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and his M.D. from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York. Dr. Fine completed both his internship and his residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania. Three years later he completed his fellowship in medical oncology at Harvard Medical School's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA. Before joining the NIH in 2000, Dr.
Fine was both director of the Neuro-Oncology Disease Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and of the Neuro-Oncology Program at the Harvard Cancer Center. The NCI senior investigator serves on several committees, including the Brain Tumor Program Review Group and the American Joint Committee on Cancer. Dr. Fine also serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Neuro-Oncology, and The Oncologist. He has received several distinguished awards, including the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center's Clinical Investigator Award in 1999, the Emil Frei III Clinical Investigator Award in 1993, and the Brain Tumor Society Research Award in 1992. His research interests include tumor angiogenesis, therapeutic gene transfer, and neural stem cell biology. NCI’s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds is a weekly lecture series addressing current research in clinical and molecular oncology. Speakers are leading national and international researchers and clinicians proposed by members of the CCR Grand Rounds Planning Committee and others within the CCR community and approved by the CCR Office of the Director. Lectures occur every Tuesday from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. in Lipsett Amphitheater in the Clinical Center building on the NIH campus September through July with exceptions around holidays and major cancer meetings. The lecture schedule is posted on various calendars of events, including at the following link: http://www.bethesdatrials.cancer.gov/health-care-professionals/grand-rounds.aspx |
| Author: | Howard A. Fine, M.D., Branch Chief, Neuro Oncology Branch Center for Cancer Research, NCI |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| CIT File ID: | 14711 |
| CIT Live ID: | 7210 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14711 |