Instructor: Prof. Emerita Mary Hitt | Fee: Members $36 | Non-Members $46

Although “cancer” is really over 200 different diseases, there are some characteristics, called “Hallmarks of Cancer” (a term coined by D. Hanahan and R. Weinberg), that cancers have in common. These Hallmarks of Cancer are characterized by the loss of regulation of specific processes that are under tight control in normal cells and tissues. Dr. Hitt’s lectures will provide an introduction to the Hallmarks of Cancer, highlighting the challenges they pose to conventional and modern cancer therapies.

Dr. Mary Hitt is an Associate Professor, Emerita, recently retired from the Department of Oncology at the University of Alberta. She obtained her PhD in Biochemistry at University of California in Berkeley, California (USA) in 1986, and was post-doctoral fellow at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London (UK), the University of Washington in Seattle (USA), and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.