The WVU Cancer Institute will hold its annual DeLynn Lecture with Dr. Maura L. Gillison, who will lecture on HPV and the Host Genome at 4 p.m. Sept. 4 in the Fukushima Auditorium (room 1901 Health Sciences Center-North). A Q&A session will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public. For those who cannot attend, the event also will be webcast.
“We are honored to host Dr. Gillison at WVU and to give our colleagues an opportunity to have a discussion about the future of this research,” said Dr. Richard M. Goldberg, director of the WVU Cancer Institute. “Her study of HPV in head and neck cancers resulted in a shift in concepts of risk, diagnosis and how we treat head and neck cancer. She was the first medical oncologist and molecular epidemiologist to make the association of human papillomavirus and oral cancer and her experience and unique insight will be very valuable to our practitioners and students.”
The DeLynn Lecture Series was created from a generous gift to the WVU Cancer Institute - Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center by Jean and the late Laurence DeLynn. Because of their generosity, we are able to attract some of the most prominent cancer advocates and scientists to the WVU campus for the benefit of the University and Morgantown community.
Lori Acciavatti, wvucancer@hsc.wvu.edu, www.wvucancer.org.