Internationally recognized cancer researchers will report next week on recent dramatic progress in understanding the mechanisms by which genes regulate cell growth an essential step in the battle against the disease.
Oncogenes are normal genes that somehow go awry and cause cancer.
At the symposium, sixteen prominent cancer researchers from the United States, Austria, France, and England will present their most recent findings on the mechanism of gene regulation and cancer genesis. His laboratory was the first to show that a single genetic change can transform a normal gene into a malignant one. This 14th Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium on Cancer Research is part of a major commitment to funding cancer research established by the company in 1977.