Dr. Kukuruzinska Co-Chairs Session at the International Conference on Cancer Research and Targeted Therapy

On October 22, 2016, Dr. Maria Kukuruzinska represented the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) at the International Conference on Cancer Research and Targeted Therapy in Baltimore, Maryland. She co-chaired the Cancer Metastasis section with Dr. Gunnar Boysen, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and gave a talk entitled “Targeting the Wnt/beta-catenin-N-glycosylation Axis in Head and Neck Cancer.”

The conference covered a wide range of topics in cancer including etiology, epidemiology, metabolic reprogramming and environmental altered cellular metabolism, cancer prevention and vaccine, new drug development, multidisciplinary treatment i.e. surgical therapy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and cancer stem cell therapy.