Event Detail (Archived)

New Insights into Pancreatic Development, Cell Plasticity, and Cancer

  • This event already took place in October 2016
  • 105 ZRC, MSKCC, 417 East 68th Street

Event Details

Type
Other Tri-Institutional Events
Speaker(s)
Chris Wright, Ph.D., director, program in developmental biology, professor and Louise B. McGavock Chair, department of cell and developmental biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Open to
Public
Host
Dr. Danwei Huangfu
Reception
Tea, 1:45 p.m.
Contact
Julie Kwan
Phone
(646) 888-3710
Sponsor
Rianna Dyal
(646) 888-3713
dyalr@mskcc.org

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