Salk Cancer Center

Cancer Metabolism:
Cutting Cancer’s Fuel Lines

The video below, from the Salk Cancer Summit on September 1, 2021 delivers updates on research discoveries in cancer, immunology and metabolism. Assistant Professors Daniel Hollern and Christina Towers join Professors Susan Kaech, Christian Metallo and Satchin Panda, to share their research on the groundbreaking relationship between the immune system and cancer; how diet, metabolism, exercise and other lifestyle factors converge to alter cancer risk; and the latest understanding of cancer prevention.

Challenge Match

Matching Your Gift Dollar for Dollar

The Salk Institute is recruiting a new Assistant Professor, Dr. Christina Towers, to the Salk Cancer Center. In honor of the Conquering Cancer Initiative, the BioMed Realty Management Team is issuing a challenge match – they will match, dollar for dollar, up to $1M to support Towers’ recruitment and to support her research and that of the Salk Cancer Center. BioMed’s president and CEO, Tim Schoen, is a Salk trustee and chairman of the Institute’s Conquering Cancer Initiative Advisory Committee.

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Conquering Cancer Initiative
year two update

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Sandy Liarakos, CFRE

Senior Director of External Relations
Phone: (858) 453-4100 x2067
E-mail: sliarakos@salk.edu

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Upcoming Seminars

Wednesday Cancer Center Trainee Seminar Series
Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Speaker/Title:“The Chalk Talk Panel” with Assistant Professor Dan Hollern and Assistant Professor Christie Towers
Hosts: Leona Flores and Susan Kaech
Location: HYBRID Trustees Room: 35-person limit with 3’ distance; Salk employees only

Contact: Leona Flores, PhD, lflores@salk.edu