{"id":37549,"date":"2015-08-17T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T01:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=37549"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:12:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:12:42","slug":"2011-nobel-prize-winner-to-speak-at-uh-cancer-center-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/17\/2011-nobel-prize-winner-to-speak-at-uh-cancer-center-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Nobel Prize winner to speak at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Cancer Center symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/manoa-cancer-beutler-b.jpg\" alt=\"Bruce Beutler\" width=\"620\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/manoa-cancer-beutler-b.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/manoa-cancer-beutler-b-260x112.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Beutler, the 2011 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, will speak at the Bridging the Cancer World Symposium on Thursday, August 20, 11 a.m. at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhcancercenter.org\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Cancer Center<\/a>&#8217;s Sullivan Conference Center. <\/p>\n<p>Beutler will share his research on rapid discovery and how genetic differences affect specific cancer characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>He won the Nobel Prize for discovering an important family of receptors allowing mammals to sense infections when they occur, triggering an inflammatory response.<\/p>\n<h2>Bridging the Cancer World Symposium<\/h2>\n<p>The Bridging the Cancer World Symposium, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sessions include how the immune system fights cancer, the genetic basis of cancer and the possibility of targeting certain channels in tumor cells.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium was made possible by a generous donation from the Weinman Foundation. The funds are directed toward advancing innovations and collaborations in cancer research.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=7366\"><em>A <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Cancer Center news release<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Beutler, the 2011 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, will speak at the Bridging the Cancer World Symposium on Thursday, August 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[218,169,9],"class_list":["post-37549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-cancer","tag-uh-cancer-center","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37549"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146082,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37549\/revisions\/146082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}