International Conference on
Technology in Cancer Research and
Treatment in the New Millennium

June 27-30, 2001, Albany Marriott
Wednesday, June 27, Arrival
5:00 - 7:00 PM Registration
8:00 - 10:00 PM Reception
Thursday, June 28, Morning
7:30 - 8:25 Registration/Coffee & Breakfast
8:25 8:35 Welcoming remark by Erasmus Schneider, Director of Evaluation for New Cancer Technologies, NYS Department of Health
8:35 – 10:05 Spectroscopy and Laser
Chair:Ernest Siew, Hudson Valley College
8:35 - 9:05 Robert R. Alfano, Native Fluorescence Imaging of Head and Neck Tumors
9:05 - 9:35 Richard Mendelsohn, Infrared Microscopic Imaging
9:35 - 10:05 Max Diem, Infrared Spectroscopy of Human Cells and Tissue
10:05 - 10:30 Coffee and Poster Viewing
10:30 – 11:30 Computer-Aided Tumor Design
10:30 – 11:00 Richard Siderits, Cost-effective Techniques for 3D & 4D Tumor Modeling
11:00 – 11:30 Andreas Jacobs, Non-invasive Imaging of Gene Expression by PET
11:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 – 5:30 Imaging, Mammography
Chair Debra L. Monticciolo, St. Pteters Hospital
2:00 – 2:30 Arthur Haus, Historical Technical Developments in Mammography
2:30 – 3:00 Carolyn MacDonald, X-Ray Optics for Better Diagnostic Imaging
3:00 – 3:30 Mark Williams, Dual Modality Breast Imaging: Structure and Function
3:30 – 4:00 Coffee An Poster Viewing
4:00 – 4:30 Stephen Feig, Screening Mammography: Accomplishments, Expectations, Challenges
4:30 – 5:00 Yu Lei Jiang, Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Breast Cancer:
5:00 – 5:30 Sam Rose, Delivery and Immobilization of Radio-Isotopes within Tumors
5:30 Session Close
6:30 – 8:00 Banquet
Thursday, June 28 (Evening Session, Open to Public)
Chair: Kenneth Lundstrom, F. Hoffmann-Roche Ltd., Basel
8:00 – 9:00 Charles R. Cantor, After the Human Genome Project
9:15 – 10:15 Debu Tripathy, Targeting Biological Pathways in Breast Cancer
Friday June 29 Morning
7:30 Coffee and Breakfast
8:30 – 12:00 Imaging, MRI, PET, CT
Chair: David Bluemke, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins
8:30 – 9:00 Lester Kwock, Clinical Application of Proton MR Spectroscopy
9:00 – 9:30 Orhan Nalcioglu, Applications of Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI in Oncology
9:30 – 10:00 David Yankelevitz, CT Screening for Lung Cancer
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee
Chair: Michael King, U Mass Medical School
10:30 – 11:00 Abass Alavi, Metabolic and Functional Imaging in the 21st Century.
11:00 – 11:30 David.Isaacson, Electrical Impedance Tomography
11:30 – 12:00 Houston Baker, Imaging Technology Development Initiatives by NCI
12:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 4:00 Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Chair Dattatreyudu Nori, The New York Hospital Medical Center Queens
2:00 –2:30 William Regine, The Radiation Oncologist’s Perspective on Stereotactic Radiosurgery
2:30 –3:00 Joseph Emrich, Stereotactic Radiosurgery in the Treatment of Brain Tumors
3:00 –3:30 Tao-Seng Chen, Basic Physics and Quality Assurance for Linac Radiosurgery
3:30 –4:00 Lech Papiez, Very High Energy Electrons in Radiation Therapy
4:00 – 4:30 Coffee
4:30 – 6:00 Brachytherapy
Chair Martin Altschuler, University of Pennsylvania
4:30 – 5:00 Dattatreyudu Nori, Recent Advances in Brachytherapy
5:00 – 5:30 Panos G. Koutrouvelis, 3-D Computed Tomography-Guided Brachytherapy
5:30 – 5:50 Amin I. Kassis, Novel Prodrug Approach for Targeting Radionuclides to Tumors
6:00 Close session
6:00 - 8 PM Dinner
Friday, June 29 (Evening Session, Open to Public)
Chair: Sukhendu Dev, Gene Delivery & Expression Sciences
8:00 – 9:00 Kenneth Lundstrom, Alphavirus Vectors as Tools in Cancer Gene Therapy
Saturday June 30 Morning
7:30 Coffee and Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00 Molecular Drug Design
Chair: Curt Breneman, RPI
8:30 – 9:00 Graham Richards, Pattern Recognition in Drug Discovery
9:00 – 9:30 William Jorgensen, Computer Simulations for Drug Lead Optimization
9:30 – 10:00 Edward Hodgkin, Drug Discovery for Gene Families
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee
10:30 – 12:00 Electroporation
Chair: Sukhendu Dev, Gene Delivery & Expression Sciences
10:30 – 11:00 Daniel Scherman, Gene Transfer Using Low Voltage Electric Pulses
11:00 – 11:30 Dietmar P. Rabussay, Gene and Drug-based Cancer Therapy by Electropermeabilization
11:30 – 12:00 Richard Heller, Delivery of Therapeutic Agents by in vivo Electroporation
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Photodynamic Therapy
Chair: Stanley Kornhauser, New York Presbyterian Hospital
1:00 – 1:30 Tayyaba Hasan, Photodynamic Therapy for Cancer.
1:30 – 2:00 Michael Girardi, Transimmunization
2:00 – 3:00 Special IR Session
Chair : Max Diem, Ph.D., Hunter College
2:00 –2:30 E. Neil Lewis, A Novel Spectroscopic Imaging
2:30- 3:00 Christian P. Schultz, The Potential Role of Fourier Transform IR Spectroscopy
3:00 Session Close
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