What's Hot speaker

The Radiation Research SIT Committee is pleased to announce the Dr. Thea Tisty from the University of California San Francisco is going to the be the “What’s Hot” speaker at this year’s ICRR. We are all very excited to have this opportunity to here her speak. Here’s an overview of some of her research as posted on her website:

“We study the epigenetic and genetic alterations that confer genomic instability and fuel cancer initiation and progression. Recently we identified a variant subpopulation of human mammary epithelial cells (vHMEC) that express properties of premalignant lesions without any exposure of the cells to carcinogens. These variant cells exist in vivo in disease-free women. We have also demonstrated that stromal changes extend beyond a supportive role and play key functional roles in facilitating tumorigenesis. We are studying the ability of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts from human tissues to facilitate the transition to tumorigenicity in an otherwise non-tumorigenic cell population.”

Please be sure to attend this seminar at this year’s ICRR!