JBL I: Oct. 1998

Inaugural John B. Little Symposium

“Genetic Instability and Cancer Susceptibility: Implications for Risk”

October 16-17, 1998

 

Friday, October 16, 1998

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

James Ware

Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard School of Public Health

Joseph D. Brain

Chair, Department of Environmental Health

PLENARY SESSION 

MODERATOR: Dr. S. James Adelstein

Harvard Medical School 

Introduction: “The History of Radiation Science at Harvard”

Dr. Eric Hall

Columbia University

“Intellectual History of Radiation Science in the Twentieth Century”

Dr. John Boice

International Epidemiology Institute

“Epidemiologic Investigation of the Adverse Effects of Exposure to Radiation” 

Dr. John B. Little

Harvard School of Public Health

“What Can Biology Offer to Understand the Effects of Low-Dose Radiation Exposure”

Dr. Gerald L. Chan, Morningside-Springfield Foundation

Presentation of John B. Little Award in Radiation Sciences to:

Dr. Ralph R. Weichselbaum

University of Chicago

“Gene Therapy Targeted by Ionizing Radiation”

Saturday, October 17, 1998

SCIENTIFIC SESSION I:  GENOMIC INSTABILITY

MODERATOR: Dr. Ann R. Kennedy

University of Pennsylvania

Introduction 

Dr. Mark Meuth

University of Utah

“Mutator Phenotypes and Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colon Cancer”

Dr. John B. Little

Harvard School of Public Health

“Mutational Mechanisms in Radiation-Induced Genomic Instability”

Dr. Andrew Grosovsky

University of California, Riverside

“Chromosomal Mechanisms of Genomic Instability”

Dr. Robert Ullrich

University of Texas, Galveston

“Genomic Instability and Its Relationship to Radiation-Induced Cancer”

 

SCIENTIFIC SESSION II:  CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY

MODERATOR: Dr. Warren W. Nichols

Merck Research Institute 

Introduction: “The Interface of Radiation Biology and Epidemiology”

Dr. Louise Strong

University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

“Li Fraumeni Syndrome: A Model for Hereditary Cancer, and for Gene Environmental Interactions”

Dr. Karl T. Kelsey

Harvard School of Public Health

“Molecular Epidemiologic Approaches to Cancer Susceptibility”

Dr. Paul Slovic

Decision Research

“Perception of Risk from Radiation”