Next Week's DSS - Dr. M. Celeste Simon

Dr. Simon

The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine will be presented by Dr. M. Celeste Simon, professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and scientific director of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute.

The lecture, titled “HIFs, Hypoxia, and Tumor Progression,” will take place April 21, 2011, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium.

Dr. Simon received her Ph.D. degree from Rockefeller University and did postdoctoral research at Rockefeller and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Simon's research studies the molecular mechanisms regulating oxygen homeostasis, stem cell maintenance, angiogenesis, and hematopoiesis. As the majority of tumors include cells that are oxygen deprived, responses to oxygen availability promote cancer cell survival, cancer stem cell phenotypes, and tumor angiogenesis. As such, oxygen-sensitive molecules are appropriate targets for anticancer therapy.

For more information on Dr. Simon's research, visit http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/simon_bio.html.

To learn more about the lecture series, call Natalie Kent at (251) 461-1548.