Leading breast cancer researcher to give lecture
Posted March 24, 1997
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Leading breast cancer researcher to give lecture
Saskatoon SK, March 24, 1997 -- The College of Medicine will host Dr.
Steven A. Narod, Chair of Breast Cancer Research at the University of
Toronto and Women's College Hospital as the first Maureen Fuller
Memorial Lecturer on Thursday March 27 at 11:30 am in the Theatre in
the Mall, Royal University Hospital.
A molecular epidemiologist with particular expertise in breast cancer
research, Dr. Narod is a member of the team of researchers who
successfully collaborated in the 1990 breakthrough discovery of mapping
the gene for hereditary breast-ovarian cancer syndrome leading to the
cloning of the BRCA1 gene in 1994 and the BRCA2 gene in December
1995.
The identification and isolation of the BRCA genes are a major
breakthroughs in breast cancer genetic research as they are the fist
genes linked to familial breast cancer. This discovery will assist scientists
to better understand the genetic events that lead to cancer and will
improve their ability to anticipate and potentially control the disease.
The Maureen Fuller Memorial Lecture was established in the summer of
1993, by her husband, Dr. Robert A. Fuller to support an on-going series
of special lectures in the field of medicine. Both Maureen and Robert
Fuller were graduates of the University of Saskatchewan.
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Jay Kalra
Head of Pathology
College of Medicine
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 655-2151
