The 2004 Laureates / Basic Sciences Category / Life Sciences (Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology)

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Alfred George Knudson, Jr.

U.S.A. / August 9, 1922
Geneticist and Physician; Senior Advisor, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Workshop

Symposium Two Genetic Hits to Cancer : Past, Present and Future

Coordinator and Moderator:
Makoto Mark Taketo (Member, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)

1:00
Opening Address
Shin-Ichi Nishikawa
(Chairman, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Deputy Director, Center for Developmental Biology, RIKEN)
 
Introduction to the Laureate
Makoto Mark Taketo
 
Laureate Lecture
Alfred George Knudson, Jr.
"Lessons from Hereditary Cancer"
 
Lecture
Okio Hino
(Professor, School of Medicine, Juntendo University; Chief, Department of Experimental Pathology, Cancer Institute)
"Hereditary kidney cancer models fitting Knudson's 2 hit"
 
Intermission
 
 
Lecture
Makoto Mark Taketo
"Characterization of "the second hit" in mouse models of familial adenomatous polyposis: New molecular mechanisms and implication to cancer progression"
 
Lecture
Shunichi Takeda
(Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
"Reverse genetic analysis of DNA repair and recombination pathways in the chicken B lymphocyte DT40"
 
Lecture
Hiromu Suzuki
(Instructor, School of Medicine, Sapporo Medical University)
"Epigenetic and genetic events cooperate to promote human colorectal tumorigenesis: A new mechanism of "the second hit""
 
Q & A Session
 
5:30
Closing
 

Workshop Program and Abstract(PDF)