Georgetown Lombardi Visiting Professor and Grand Rounds Lecture Series Featuring Elizabeth Repasky, PhD
Title: “Making the Best of a Cold Situation: Using the Housing Temperature of Laboratory Mice to Understand the Impact of Chronic Stress on Anti-tumor Immunity”
Presented by:
Elizabeth Repasky, PhD
Distinguished Member of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Oncology, the William Huebsch Professor of Immunology
Program Leader for the Cell Stress and Biophysical Therapies Program
Location: Join this presenter in person in the New Research Building Auditorium (option to attend remotely via Zoom provided)
Sponsor: Marc E. Lippman, MD
Dr. Elizabeth A. Repasky is a Distinguished Member of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Lawrence J. Minet Endowed Chair in Immunology and Program Leader for the Cancer Stress Biology Program. She is a native of Western Pennsylvania, graduating from Seton Hill University with a BA in Biology. She received her PhD from SUNY Buffalo and did a postdoctoral fellowship in cell biology at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Repasky’s research program focuses on exploration of stress and its immunological consequences with the goal of using this information to improve efficacy of cancer therapies. A longstanding passion for her has been her research on the physiological role of temperature, thermal stress and the impact of thermoregulation on the anti-tumor immune response. Dr. Repasky has over 225 research publications and is the recipient of the Dr. Thomas B. Tomasi “Hope Award” at Roswell Park and the “Distinguished Biomedical Alumna Award” from the University at Buffalo, and both the J. Eugene Robinson and William C. Dewey Awards from the Society for Thermal Medicine. She has served as major advisor to 24 PhD and MD/PhD students and 12 Postdoctoral Fellows, nearly all of whom have gone on to become successful members of the research, academia, or bio-tech communities. Her outstanding teaching and mentorship skills have been recognized by several awards.
Lecture Series Presented by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center