Cancer Center Seminar Series: "Alternative Treatment Strategies for Prostate Cancer"

CANCER CENTER SEMINAR SERIES

Friday, January 8, 2021

12-1p

Zoom Meeting ID: 924 1003 9726 PW: CaseCCC

"Alternative Treatment Strategies for Prostate Cancer"

Hannelore Heemers, PhD

Associate Staff, Center for GU Malignancies Research

Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine

Member, GU Malignancies Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

This seminar is presented by the GU Malignancies Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The Heemers laboratory explores novel therapeutic vulnerabilities in prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in American men. With few exceptions, the 33,000 prostate cancer deaths that occur annually in the United States are due to failure of androgen deprivation therapy. Androgen deprivation therapy targets the genomic action of the androgen receptor, the major driver of prostate cancer progression. The Heemers laboratory’s research program focuses on generating insights into the specific molecular mechanisms by which the androgen receptor drives prostate cancer progression. The long term goals of her group are (1) to develop novel prostate cancer-selective forms of androgen deprivation therapy, (2) to identify new therapeutic targets to overcome acquired resistance to prostate cancer treatments, and (3) to optimize and personalize evidence-based administration of available prostate cancer therapies. Her lab pursues these goals through two major lines of research that study coregulator-dependent direct mechanisms of androgen action and an SRF-dependent indirect mechanism of androgen action. Central to their research efforts are integrated approaches that combine an understanding of the basic mechanism of androgen-dependent gene transcription, systems biology approaches designed to answer specific questions, and clinical relevance of their research findings.

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