Nearly four dozen researchers and trainees working in two programs
about cancer cell biology at HSPH attended a special retreat to
exchange information and ideas on April 12 and 13 in Newport, RI.
The programs–the NCI Radiation Biology Training Program
(Radiobiology) and the NIEHS Training Program in Environmental
Health Sciences (Toxicology)–have been funded by the National
Institutes of Health at HSPH continuously since 1975 and 1985,
respectively. They involve researchers from the Departments of
Cancer Cell Biology, Nutrition, and Environmental Health at HSPH, as
well as from several HMS departments, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Massachusetts General
Hospital.
The intensive, two-day event covered themes that included cellular
responses to DNA damage and oxidative stress; cell biology
approaches to understanding growth control; molecular approaches to
dissecting mechanisms of radiation damage and basic cellular
processes that respond to such damage; and interests related to
inflammatory damage and cancer risk genetics.