5/10/13 - A leading cancer researcher is the next featured speaker in Cleary Universityâs Livingston Economic Club Luncheon Series. Dr. Mina Bissell has been recognized for her lifetime contributions to the fields of breast cancer research, the enhanced role of extra-cellular matrix (ECM) and the nucleus environment to gene expression in normal and malignant tissues. Her work, which focuses on how cells interact within their specific environment, has become increasingly influential and accepted in the field of cancer biology and cancer therapeutics. The Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkley Laboratory tells WHMI her persistence paid off and itâs taken awhile for people to come around to her work, which was considered radical and out-of-the-box. Bissell says her talk will focus on breast cancer and why we donât get more cancer than less cancer, noting there are 70 trillion cells in the human body and they all have the same genetic information. She says itâs a hopeful field, especially breast cancer. Bissell, who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010, will be speaking at the luncheon series next Thursday at Cleary Universityâs Johnson Center and tickets are still available. A link to Dr. Bissell articles and lectures is posted below. (JM)
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