Next Week's DSS - Dr. Bruce Chabner

The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine will be presented by Dr. Bruce Chabner, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of clinical research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.

Dr. Chabner's talk, titled "Phase I Trials Guided by Molecular Profiling," will take place on Oct. 13, 2011, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium.

Dr. Chabner's major research interests involve clinical testing, pharmacokinetics and biochemical pharmacology of new anticancer drugs, particularly natural products and signal transduction inhibitors.

He earned a medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency at Brigham & Women's Hospital. In addition, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at the National Cancer Institute and Yale New Haven Hospital.

For more information on Dr. Chabner's research, click here.