The Cancer Biology Graduate Interdisciplinary Program presents the following guest speaker for the Cancer Biology GIDP Seminar Series:
![[James Bibb, PhD]](/sites/default/files/styles/very_small_image/public/bibb-chair-header_600x900px.jpg?itok=Tg05-jQF "James Bibb, PhD")
James Bibb, PhD | Professor and chair, Department of Translational Neurosciences, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, and member, UArizona Cancer Center
“Shared Mechanisms in Cancer and Neuronal Injury”
Monday, March 11, 2024 | 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
UArizona Cancer Center – Kiewit Auditorium (Room 2951) or
Join Zoom Meeting: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/89130395406 (Password can be found on the flyer below.)
Cancer Biology GIDP Seminar Series
Spring Instructor: Dr. Noel Warfel
Contact: warfelna@arizona.edu
About the Presenter
Dr. James Bibb is the inaugural chair of the Department of Translational Neurosciences at the UArizona College of Medicine in Phoenix. He was previously vice chair of research in the University of Alabama Birmingham Department of Surgery. His lab discovered that mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and neuronal injury overlap with mechanisms that drive cancers.
Dr. Bibb's research group showed that cell type-specific induction of neuronal injury mechanisms in neuroendocrine cell populations causes clinically accurate mouse models of neuroendocrine cancers. The lab is applying advanced multiomic analyses to these models in parallel with human tumor tissue to identify novel tumorigenic and discovering pathways that drive cancer cell proliferation. They are developing biomarker-guided precision medicine treatments and discovering new drugs to target neoplastic signaling mechanisms as therapies for neuroendocrine tumors and other types of cancers. The lab is also using advanced and innovative neurobiology approaches to understand the causes and develop treatments for the neurological and neuropsychiatric effects of chemotherapy.
Flyer for this lecture: 
cancer_biology_gidp_seminar_3.11.2024_james_bibb_flyer.pdf
Original event listing.
University of Arizona Cancer Center, Kiewit Auditorium (Room 2951)
1515 N. Campbell Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85719
OR
Virtual: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/89130395406 (see flyer above for password)