The International Institute of information & Technology will be hosting an International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2010) from the 11thto the 14th November 2010. The conference will be held at the I2IT campus and will be open to all.
Pune, Maharashtra -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/09/2010 -- Pune, 4th December 2010: The International Institute of information & Technology will be hosting an International Conference on Stem Cells and Cancer (ICSCC-2010) from the 11thto the 14th November 2010. The conference will be held at the I2IT campus and will be open to all.
The four day conference will encompass all areas in stem cells and cancer research including basic research on proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis of stem and cancer cells and applied and clinical aspects including stem cell therapy and gene therapy.
Eminent speakers from across the globe will be present to deliver lectures during the conference. Some of the confirmed speakers are:
- Dr Harinder Singh, Senior Director, Discovery Immunology, Genentech, San Francisco, USA
- Dr. Christian Buske, Professor & Director, Institute of Experimental Cancer Research, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
- Dr. Claus Nerlov, Chair of Stem Cell Biology, Associate Director, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, and Head, Institute for Stem Cell Research, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Dr. Atsushi Iwama, Professor and Chairman‚ Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine‚ Graduate School of Medicine‚ Chiba University, Japan
- Dr. Dirk Eick, Professor of Genetics, Department of Molecular Epigenetics, Helmholtz-Zentrum-Muenchen, Munich, Germany
- Dr. John Eriksson, Professor of Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
- Dr. Stefan Bohlander, Professor of Molecular Hematology and Oncology, Grosshadern Hospital, University of Munich, Germany
- Dr. Vivek Mittal, Professor & Director, Neuberger Berman Lung Cancer Laboratory, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, USA
- Dr. Saumyadipta Pyne, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Dr. Philipp Kaldis, Principal Investigator, Cell Division and Cancer Laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
- Dr. Vijay Kumar Tiwari, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
In addition to the lectures by the various eminent personalities in this field there will be activities for the students and faculty participating in the conference as well. Best Oral presentation would get a cash prize of Rs. 15,000 and best Poster presentation would get a cash prize of Rs. 10,000. There will be at least ten poster presentation awards and five oral presentation awards to students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculties based on the submitted abstracts and the actual presentation of the work at the conference. A total of 15 sessions are planned with 80 speakers from around the world.
For further details please visit http://www.stemcells.org.in/?page_id=66 or contact Dr. Sheo Mohan Singh, Professor & Head, School of Biotechnology atsheos@isquareit.ac.in for any queries.
About International Institute of Information Technology
Pune (http://www.isquareit.ac.in) The International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT - pronounced I square IT) rated amongst the top Technology schools in India is a new generation autonomous Graduate School that offers research driven M.Tech / M.S. / MBA and Ph.D. Degree Programs in Science, Engineering, Technology, Management and Humanities through its collaboration with IGNOU.
I Square IT is the creation of Shri Pralhad P Chhabria, (Chairman – Finolex Group) and Padmashree Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, a distinguished scientist and creator of PARAM series of supercomputers. It is their vision to create a postgraduate institute par excellence that will empower this country’s future inventors, innovators and leaders.
Bharat Ratna Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, the Honorable President of India, on the 28th of May 2003 dedicated I2IT to the service of the nation. With a curriculum developed and delivered by leading academicians and industry professionals, I2IT provides aspirants with fully residential and autonomous Programs in Advanced Technologies, Engineering and Management. The Institute is also an approved center of the University of Pune for research leading to Ph. D in Engineering.
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