About the Speaker

Michael Kastan, MD, PhD
Executive Director
Duke Cancer Institute

Speaker bio

Title: Cellular Stress Responses: Cancer to Neurodegeneration, Causation to Therapy

Description: Kastan will discuss the history and details of elucidating cellular responses to DNA damage, including implications for cancer therapy, and will describe a novel non-canonical role of ATM with implications for human diseases from cancer to neurodegenerative disorders.