Symposium program starts: Wednesday, October 8th, 2014
Symposium program ends: Saturday, October 11th, 2014
The official language of the Symposium is English. Sessions will not be translated.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

09:00 – 13:00
Registration
15:00 – 17:00
Registration
Opening Ceremony
Chairperson: Gloria M. Calaf
Instituto de Alta Investigación
Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile

18:00 – 18:05
Dr. Gloria M. Calaf
Chairperson, 20th International Charles Heidelberger Symposium on Cancer Research. Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile and Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA
18:05 – 18:20
Dr. Arturo Flores Franuliĉ
Rector Universidad de Tarapacá. Arica, Chile
18:20 – 18:25
Dr. Eliezer Huberman
The Charles and Patricia Heidelberger Foundation for Cancer Research, USA
18:25 – 18:30
Dr. Joseph Landolph
The Charles and Patricia Heidelberger Foundation for Cancer Research, USA
18:30 – 19:00
Dr. Gareth Owen: Introductory Lecture
"Cancer: An unauthorized biography"
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
19:00 – 19:15
Carlos Elgueta
National Fund for Science and Technology
(Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, FONDECYT), Chile
19:15 – 19:30
Jorge Jiménez
"Facing the burden of cancer in Chile"
Representative of Chilean Public Health
Thursday, October 9, 2014

Session 1: Introduction
08:30 – 08:45
Dr. Eliezer Huberman, (USA)
08:45 – 09:00
Dr. Joseph Landolph, (USA)
Session 2: From Epidemiology to Molecular Carcinogenesis I
09:00 – 09:30
Dr. Toshio Kuroki, (Japan)
09:30 – 10:00
Dr. Aage Haugen, (Norway)
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break / Poster presentation
Session 3: From Epidemiology to Molecular Carcinogenesis II
10:30 – 11:00
Dr. Catterina Ferreccio, (Chile)
11:00 – 12:00
Keynote speaker: Dr. Curtis C. Harris, (USA)
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
Session 4: Cell and Molecular Biology of Cancer I
13:30 – 14:00
Dr. Arne Klungland, (Norway)
14:00 – 14:30
Dr. Joseph Landolph, (USA)
14:30 – 15:00
Dr. Maria Carmen Alpoim, (Portugal)
15:00 – 16:00
Coffee Break / Poster presentation
Session 5: Cell and Molecular Biology of Cancer II
16:00 – 16:30
Dr. Andrew Quest, (Chile)
16:30 – 17:00
Dr. Alejandro Corvalán, (Chile)
17:00 – 17:30
Galenica presentation by Dr. Erick Contreras (Chile)
Friday, October 10, 2014

Session 6: Signal Transduction Aberrations I
08:30 – 09:00
Dr. Yoshinori Murakami, (Japan)
09:00 – 09:30
Dr. Gareth Owen, (Chile)
09:30 – 10:00
Dr. Ricardo Amaru, (Bolivia)
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break / Poster presentation
Session 7: Signal Transduction Aberrations II
10:30 – 11:00
Dr. Enrique Castellón, (Chile)
11:00 – 11:30
Dr. Verónica Burzio, (Chile)
11:30 – 12:00
Dr. Sergio Oñate, (Chile)
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
Session 8: Cancer Drug Resistance and Cancer Therapy I
13:30 – 14:00
Dr. Carlos F Menck, (Brazil)
14:00 – 14:30
Dr. Eliezer Huberman, (USA)
14:30 – 15:00
Dr. Alfonso González, (Chile)
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break / Poster presentation
Session 9: Cancer Drug Resistance and Cancer Therapy II
15:30 – 16:00
Dr. Yoshimi Homma, (Japan)
16:00 – 16:30
Dr. Robert D. Ladner, (USA)
16:30 – 17:30
Business meeting
Saturday, October 11
Session 10: Breast Carcinogenesis and Breast Cancer Therapy I
09:00 – 09:30
Dr. Wei Li, (USA)
09:30 – 10:00
Dr. Alfredo Aguilar, (Peru)
10:00 – 11:00
Coffee Break / Poster presentation
Session 11: Breast Carcinogenesis and Breast Cancer Therapy II
11:00 – 11:30
Dr. Gloria M. Calaf, (Chile)
11:30 – 12:00
Dr. Debasish Roy, (USA)
Closing ceremony
12:00 – 12:30
Dr. Joseph Landolph, (USA)
Dr. Eliezer Huberman, (USA)
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The detailed program grid can be downloaded here and the program-at-a-glance version can be downloaded here. Poster sessions will run throughout the Symposium.