This is the second lecture of the series presented by The Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Research Centre:

Cancer's New Era of Promise and Progress

Experts will demonstrate how new technologies that offer great promise in enhancing patient diagnosis, early detection, improving current cancer treatments, reducing treatment time, and increasing survival rates. Clinicians will discuss potentially new treatments in rectal cancer.

FACILITATOR:
NICOLE BEAUCHEMIN, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Medicine and Oncology, GCRC, McGill University

FEATURING:

"Contribution of Radiation Technologies in the Management of Patients with Rectal Cancer"
TE VUONG, MD, FRCP
Associate Professor, McGill University
Director, Division of Radiation Oncology, Jewish General Hospital

"The Optimal Therapeutic Delivery Vehicle for Cancer Therapy: A Gift from Nature"
SYLVAIN MARTEL, PEng, PhD, FCAE
Professor and Director NanoRobotics Laboratory
Department of Computer and Software Engineering,
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM)


"Biochip Technologies to Expose Cancer's Signature in Blood"
DAVID JUNCKER, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill University
Member of the McGill University and Genome Canada Innovation Centre