Demystifying Medicine
Course Materials for 2008
- January 8, 2008, "HIV/AIDS: The ultimate chameleon"
- January 15, 2008, "Coronary Heart Disease: Detecting and treating a major killer"
- January 22, 2008, "Cystic diseases and cilia: A new frontier"
- January 29, 2008, "Diseases from the blood bank: Progress and the future"
- February 5, 2008, "Inflammatory bowel diseases: What is the target?"
- February 12, 2008, "Malaria: Big killer and big advances"
- February 19, 2008, "Hunger, appetite, obesity, addiction: The new pandemic"
- February 26, 2008, "Diabetes and autoimmunity: Turning against self"
- March 4, 2008, "West Nile Virus: A new threat"
- March 11, 2008, "Genetic screening: Finding Mendelian disease genes"
- March 18, 2008, "Neurologic diseases in the genomic era"
- March 25, 2008, "Cystic fibrosis: A common inheritable disease with many unknowns"
- April 1, 2008, "Lysosomal diseases: Patients and problems"
- April 8, 2008, "Gaucher's disease: Treating a genetic disease"
- April 15, 2008, "Traumatic brain injury: Mechanisms, treatment and challenges"
- April 22, 2008, "Brain cancer: Problems and progress"
- April 29, 2008, "Liver cancer: A global problem. Who gets THE liver transplant?"
- Arias introduction
- Ghany presentation
- Wertheimer presentation
- References:
- Thorgeirsson S.S. and Grisham J.W. (2002). Molecular pathogenesis of human hepatocellular carcinoma. Nat. Genet. 31: 339-346.
- Kim J.W. and Wang X.W. (2003). Gene expression profiling of preneoplastic liver disease and liver cancer: A new era for improved early detection and treatment of these deadly diseases? Carcinogenesis 24: 363-369.
- Budhu A., Forgues M., Ye Q.H., Jia L.H., He P., Zanetti K.A., Kammula U.S., Chen Y., Qin L.X., Tang Z.Y., et al. (2006). Prediction of venous metastases, recurrence and prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma based on a unique immune response signature of the liver microenvironment. Cancer Cell 10: 99-111.
- Budhu A., Jia H.L., Forgues M., Liu C.G., Goldstein D., Lam A., Zanetti K.A., Ye Q.H., Qin L.X., Croce C.M., et al. (2008). Identification of metastasis-related microRNAs in hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatology 47: 897-907.
- May 6, 2008, "Lung cancer: Clinical progress and the cancer stem cell paradigm"
- May 13, 2008, "Finale: What does the future hold for PhD postdoctoral fellows?"
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