Distinguished researchers from a number of the country’s leading cancer research centers will discuss the latest advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment in a Cancer Research Symposium on Saturday, August 4 in Yountville. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Members of the Scientific Advisory Board of The V Foundation will describe current advances and discoveries into clinical applications, new diagnostics and alternative treatments to cancer at the two-hour session hosted by The V Foundation and led by Robert C. Bast Jr., M.D., vice president for translational research at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. It will include a Q&A session offering attendees the opportunity to direct questions to some of the top physicians in the country. The program will take place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Historic Barrel Room, V Marketplace in Yountville.
The symposium is part of The V Foundation’s 14th annual Wine Celebration weekend, its yearly major event to raise funds for cancer research.
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Dr. Bast and the other symposium participants serve on The V Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, which comprises world-renowned doctors and research scientists from many of the nation’s most prominent universities and cancer centers. Board members represent the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Duke Raleigh Cancer Institute, Fox Chase Cancer Center-Philadelphia, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center at Ohio State University, Prostate Cancer Foundation, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Stanford University School of Medicine, Translational Genomics Research Institute, UNC Lineberger Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, University of Illinois, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
No reservations are necessary to attend the Cancer Research Symposium. For more information, call 707-963-0611 or visit www.winecelebration.org.
