UW Carbone Cancer Center Open House

press release: Join us for a free Open House to see behind the scenes of research laboratories, hear scientists explain their latest research initiatives, and learn about the role of the UW Carbone Cancer Center in the community.

    12:45pm: Check-in opens

    1:15pm: Brief welcome from Howard Bailey, MD, director of the UW Carbone Cancer Center

    2-3:30pm: Explore our research laboratories. Meet Cancer Center scientists as they explain their latest research initiatives and learn more about our groundbreaking imagining capabilities.

Beverages and hors d'oeuvres will be served. Tours are optional. There will also be poster sessions in the HSLC and an opportunity to meet Cancer Center scientists to learn about their work.

 Tour Descriptions

Tour 1: Cell Signaling, Biomedical Engineering & Small Animal Imaging Facility, with David Beebe, Ph.D., Shigeki Miyamoto, Ph.D. and Jamey Weichert, Ph.D.

Small Animal Imaging Facility (SAIF): The SAIF provides innovative, state-of-the-art, non-invasive, high-resolution imaging support to any academic or industry researcher that uses small animal models in their research. When a new medicine or technique is developed, from drug discovery and delivery to early cancer detecting imaging or biomarkers, the SAIF is the bridge from benchtop to bedside.

David Beebe Lab: The Beebe lab, or Microtechnology, Medicine and Biology lab, develops and applies micro scale technology that enables and facilitates both basic cancer research as well as clinical diagnosis and treatment monitoring.

Shigeki Miyamoto Lab: The Miyamoto lab seeks to identify new therapeutic targets in cancer treatment by studying how normal cells generate appropriate decisions, such as to divide, survive or die, in response to cellular and environmental cues, and how cancer cells alter the decision-making process to grow and survive while avoiding death.

Tour 2: Virology and PET Imaging, with Nathan Sherer, Ph.D and Christine Jaskowiak, B.S.

Virology: The Institute for Molecular Virology uses live cell imaging to study viruses and how they interact with cells during infections, with an emphasis on a class of viruses called retroviruses that cause immunodeficiency (e.g. HIV) and cancer (e.g. HTLV).

PET Imaging: The UW PET Imaging Center is a university-wide resource that provides imaging capabilities for both research and clinical procedures, in-depth analysis of imaging data and assistance in implementing new molecular imaging agents and methods.

Tour 3: Breast Cancer and Immunotherapy, with Drs. Mark Burkard, Christian Capitini and Paul Sondel

Breast Cancer Lab: The Burkard lab focuses on how human cells divide normally and how cancer cells divide abnormally, in an effort to use anti-cancer medicines only when they will work and to discover new, better cancer fighting medicines.

Immunotherapy: The Sondel and Capitini Immunotherapy lab studies how a patient's own immune system, in combination with therapeutic antibodies, can improve the efficacy of bone marrow transplants in killing tumors.

mmdunne@uwcarbone.wisc.edu or (608) 263-2746