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Organisers
 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
The University of Chicago has a long tradition of excellence in cancer
research. This tradition includes; the 1927 discovery by Dr. Herman
Joseph Muller of the production and quantitation of the rate of mutations
induced in the Drosophila genome by means of irradiation which led
to his Nobel Prize in 1946, the 1941 discovery of the remarkable effects
of hormone therapy on prostate and breast cancer culminating in the
1963 Nobel Prize to Dr. Charles Huggins, the 1942 discovery of the
striking effectiveness of nitrogen
mustard against Hodgkin Disease by Dr. Leon Jacobson, former Dean
of the BSD, and the 1971 discovery of the 9;22 translocation creating
the Philadelphia chromosome in CML culminating in the 1998 National
Medal of Science to Dr. Janet D. Rowley, for her discovery of chromosomal
breakpoints and their role in cancer. The University of Chicago Cancer
Research Center (UCCRC), founded in 1973 under the leadership of the
first director Dr. John E. Ultmann, was established as a multidisciplinary,
matrix rogram of basic and clinical research in cancer. It is within
this rich environment that our program in cancer is conducted.
www.uchicago.edu
http://cancer-risk.bsd.uchicago.edu
 COLLEGE OF MEDICINE,
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
The College of Medicine, university of Ibadan is the oldest and most
prestigious medical
school in sub -Saharan Africa, and has been a center of excellence
in learning for over five decades. It has a formidable track record
for health manpower development, and has played a pivotal role in
clinical research in Africa. Ibadan has trained more doctors than
any other school in sub -Saharan Africa, and has eminent graduates
in Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Physiology,
Biochemistry and Human Nutrition.
www.com.ui.edu.ng
www.icomaa.com
 THE MEDICAL WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA
The Medical Women's Association of Nigeria is a professional/philanthropic
non-sectarian, non-profit making organization, which is made up
of all female
registered medical and dental practitioners resident in Nigeria.
Full membership
is open to medical and dental female practitioners qualified and
registered with
Nigerian Medical and Dental Council. |
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