Mar 30 2016

Brain Tumor Treatment with Stem Cells

Guests: Dr. Shawn Hingtgen, Assistant Professor, Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy; Dr. Matthew Ewend, Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery, UNC, Group Leader, NeuroOncology, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Topics: Stem cell therapies for brain cancer (glioblastoma multiforme), mouse models, real-time non-invasive imaging, clinical perspectives on brain tumor treatment

Hingtgen Lab

Shawn’s faculty page

Therapeutically engineered induced neural stem cells are tumour-homing and inhibit progression of glioblastoma, (abstract), Nature Communications, February, 2016

“Meet Matthew Ewend, MD”

Scicast: Early Tumour Response from Stereotactic Radiosurgery Predicts Outcome

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Dr. Shawn Hingtgen

Dr. Matthew Ewend

Mar 23 2016

Bone Structure, Metabolism, & Biophysical Forces

Guest: Dr. Janet Rubin, Professor, Department of Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
Topics: Triggering bone formation from mesenchymal stem cells, mechanisms of exercise effects on bone quantity and quality

Dr. Janet Rubin

Rubin Lab home page

Faculty page at Diabetes Center for Research

“Intranuclear Actin Regulates Osteogenesis” Stem Cell, September 2015

Awesome “accident” turns stem cells into bone

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Mar 9 2016

Pharmacogenomics

Guest: Dr. Tim Wiltshire, Director, Center for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Topics: Pharmacogenomics, clinical implementation, pharmacy implementation, advances in the field