Beyond the Elusive Cure

Beyond the Elusive Cure - a QBI Salon in DC

Andrea Kissack, reporter on the science desk at National Public Radio, will moderate the conversation.

This evening is hosted by the Quantitative Biosciences Institute. QBI applies computation, mathematics, and statistics toward a deeper understanding of complex problems in biology, with the ultimate goal of developing new treatments for disease. The institute currently focuses on conditions such as breast cancer, head and neck cancer, psychiatric disorders including autism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, and the relationships between infectious diseases and their hosts.

Our scientists to whom Andrea @NPR will be throwing some questions include:

Laura V'ant Veer - Laura is a Molecular Biologist, and Leader of the Breast Oncology Program and Associate Director Applied Genomics at the Helen Diller Cancer Center at UCSF. Most recently she won the European Inventor Award for her gene-based breast cancer test.

Nevan Krogan - Nevan is a professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California San Francisco&;nbsp;(UCSF), and a senior investigator at the J. David Gladstone Institutes. He is also the Director of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute.

Trey Ideker - Trey is Chief of Genetics and Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Trey and Nevan also are the co-directors of the Cancer Cell Map Initiative.