Georgetown Lombardi Visiting Professor and Grand Rounds Lecture Series: “Mechanisms Driving Physiological Cachexia in Regeneration and Pathological Cachexia in Pancreatic Cancer”

Title: “Mechanisms Driving Physiological Cachexia in Regeneration and Pathological Cachexia in Pancreatic Cancer”

Presented by:
Teresa A. Zimmers, PhD
Professor of Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
Co-Leader, Cancer Biology Program, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
Co-Leader, Patient Resiliency Program, Brenden-Colson Center for Pancreatic Care

Location: Preclinical Science Building GA 2/4 and via Zoom

Sponsor: Dr. David Robbins

Lecture Series Presented by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center 

About the Speaker:
Dr. Zimmers is Professor of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology at Oregon Health & Science University, Co-Leader of the Cancer Biology Program at the Knight Cancer Institute, and Co-Leader of the Patient Resiliency Program of the Brenden Colson Center for Pancreatic Care. She is jointly appointed as a Research Scientist at the Portland Veterans Administration Medical Center and Adjunct Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Zimmers’ basic, translational, and clinical research focuses on understanding the systemic response to disease, particularly from the perspective of tissue wasting in cancer, known as cancer cachexia. Her laboratory seeks to identify pathways leading to progressive loss of adipose, muscle, and bone in cancer for the purpose of identifying novel, effective therapies to mitigate cachexia and improve quality of life, length of life, and chance of cure.