Symposium on Cancer Research: Cancer Metabolism 2017

Symposium on Cancer Research: Cancer Metabolism is organized by University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and would be held during Oct 05 - 06, 2017 at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America.

The symposia will discuss molecular and cellular changes that occur in metabolism, how the microenvironment and stromal tissue can directly affect metabolism, how the metabolic environment around a lesion can directly affect treatment response, and ways metabolism can be exploited for therapy and for direct in vivo imaging in cancer systems. In addition, recent advances in understanding how metabolism can directly affect oncogenesis, such as in the context of oncometabolites and reductive carboxylation, will be discussed.

Target Audience
The target audience for this medical event for broad interest to scientists, physician-scientists, scientists-in-training, physicians, physicians-in-training, students, nurses, and fellows interested in hearing the latest methodologies to study tumor metabolism, microenvironment, and bioenergetics, and how data emerging from this research are impacting translational research, metabolic imaging, and personalized medicine.

Objectives
• Defining metabolic changes that occur in cancer cells and in their microenvironment, as well as mechanistic interplay between cell signaling, metabolism and bioenergentics
• Demonstration of emerging imaging technologies that allow observation of metabolic changes in vivo and translation to the clinic
• Understanding how metabolic changes can directly affect cancer oncogenesis