Metabolism, Diet and Disease Conference

Metabolism, Diet and Disease 2014: Cancer and metabolism

BioMed Central will host the second biennial Metabolism, Diet and Disease: Cancer and metabolism conference on 28^th to 30^th May 2014 at L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington DC, USA.  The conference is supported by the journals BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, which celebrate their 10^th Anniversary in 2013, and Cancer & Metabolism.  Following the success of the first Metabolism, Diet and Disease conference in 2012, this second conference will bring together leading researchers in cancer and metabolism with experts in whole-body metabolism.

Internationally recognised speakers will talk on topics which will include metabolic needs and specializations of cancer cells, obesity and caloric restriction, oncogenic drivers and vulnerabilities in altered cancer cell metabolism, metabolic modulation of epigenetics, and metabolism-based cancer therapies, forming part of a highly topical and diverse scientific program.

All participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. Submitted abstracts will be published as a supplement in BMC Biology, BMC Medicine and Cancer & Metabolism and indexed in PubMed and by ISI Web of Science.

Organizing committee

Craig Thompson

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA

J. Michael Bishop

University of California San Francisco, USA

Chi Van Dang

Abramson Cancer Center, USA

David Sabatini

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Michael Pollak

McGill University and Jewish General Hospital, Canada

Joseph L Goldstein

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Lewis Cantley

Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, USA

Michael S Brown

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Speakers & panel

Michael S Brown

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

J. Michael Bishop

University of California San Francisco, USA

Lewis Cantley

Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian, USA

Chi Van Dang

Abramson Cancer Center, USA

Ralph DeBerardinis

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Joseph L Goldstein

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Grahame Hardie

University of Dundee, UK

Matthew Vander Heiden

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

William G Kaelin

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA

Steven McKnight

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Michael Pollak

McGill University and Jewish General Hospital, Canada

Joshua D Rabinowitz

Princeton University, USA

Peter Ratcliffe

University of Oxford, UK

David Sabatini

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Reuben Shaw

Salk Institute, USA

Craig Thompson

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA

Eileen White

The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, USA

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