[UCI-Calit2] Oseroff Photomedicine Lecture - 4/24/12

Anna Lynn Spitzer aspitzer at calit2.uci.edu
Mon Apr 2 11:42:10 PDT 2012


Fourth Annual Allan R. Oseroff Photomedicine Lecture - Getting the Best
of Photodynamic Therapy: Are Molecular Targets the Way to Go? 

Time: 		11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.  

Date:		April 24, 2012

Location:  	Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic Library
       		       
Speaker: 	Hasan Tayyaba, Ph.D., professor of dermatology, Wellman
Center for Photomedicine,  Massachusetts General Hospital

Abstract:
Photodynamic therapy (DT), a photochemistry based therapeutic approach,
continues to receive regulatory approvals world-wide for a number of
applications.  An emerging important attribute of this modality is that
most PDT agents have inherent finite fluorescence so that they may
simultaneously be used in diagnostics or surgical guidance, in addition
to performing the therapeutic role they were designed for.  Despite the
apparent successes, PDT is not as widely used clinically as treatment
outcomes might warrant.  The reasons are complex but the approach may be
made more powerful by exploiting PDT for more than its cytotoxic effect
by focusing on appropriate cellular targets, which impact molecular
pathways that lead to rational synergistic combination treatments.  To
achieve this development of targeting strategies and appropriate in
vitro/in vivo models for rapid screening would help.  Aspects of these
challenges will be part of this presentation. 

Presented by: 		Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
       			Laser Microbeam and Medical Program, Beckman
Laser Institute

Additional information: Lunch provided. RSVP to Midge Garrison,
midgec at uci.edu. For directions and information: http://www.bli.uci.edu.



More information about the UCI-Calit2 mailing list