His seminar, titled “Kiss1 Metastasis Suppressor Mechanisms of Action and Therapeutic Implications,” will take place on Sept. 9, 2010, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium on USA’s main campus.
Dr. Welch, who holds the Leonard H. Robinson Professorship of Pathology, also serves as associate director for graduate student programs and director of the graduate biomedical science curriculum of the cancer biology graduate program. He is also director and principal investigator of the Howard Hughes Med-into-Grad Graduate Program.
Dr. Welch is a nationally known expert in the biology and genetics of cancer metastasis. His work focuses on the mechanisms behind the process of metastasis by determining which cancer cells will metastasize and how to control that process.
Prior to joining the UAB faculty in 2002, Dr. Welch was an associate professor of pathology at the Jake Glitten Cancer Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California-Irvine, and his doctorate from the University of Texas-Houston.
For more information on Dr. Welch’s research, click here.
On a rotating basis, basic science departments at USA invite distinguished scientists from other academic institutions to present seminars describing their latest research findings. Interested faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend the Distinguished Scientist Seminars. For the full schedule of seminars, click here.
