Research Seminar: "What's Good for the Goose would have been Good for the Gander: Sex Differences in Brain Tumor Biology”

Speaker: Josh Rubin, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Neuroscience, Co-Director, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, St Louis Children's Hospital, Co-Leader, Solid Tumor Therapeutics Program, Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine
Talk Summary: In this talk Dr. Josh Rubin will review the epidemiology regarding sex differences in brain tumor incidence and outcome. Dr. Rubin will review the evolutionary and developmental origins of sex differences in growth regulatory networks and present a model for studying the molecular basis for sex differences in glioblastoma biology and therapeutic responses to chemotherapy.
Hosted by: Anat Erdreich-Epstein, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology, Pediatric Brain Tumors Program, Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases