Molecular Response and Imaging-Based Combination Strategies for Optimal PDT

Date: 05/11/2007
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: 315 Shillman Hall
Speaker: Dr. Tayyaba Hasan, Professor, Dermatology, Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Tayyaba Hasan, Ph.D, is Professor of Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Her research focus is on the application of photochemistry-based approaches to biomedical problems and has both basic and translational components. Studies from her laboratory on photodynamic activation of porphyrins have led to an FDA approved treatment for age-related-macular-degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the elderly in the western world. Dr. Hasan is the Program Director of a National Cancer Institute funded multicenter Program Project Grant studying biophysical and photochemical approaches to cancer therapy. Nationally, she has served or continues to serve on review panels of funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense and the American Cancer Society; internationally she is a reviewer for the Canadian, several European and Singaporean National Research Councils. She is on advisory boards of a number of commercial and academic entities.

Refreshments 12:45 pm