Juri Gelovani, M.D.

will be presenting an invited lecture at the Herrenhausen Symposium on Metastasis in Kloster Seeon, Seeon, Germany, on October 5, 2012. This prestigious "by invitation only" meeting is organized by Nature Medicine journal and the Volkswagen Foundation. Nature Medicine, in consultation with the research community, has identified a series of roadblocks to translational research on metastasis. A select group of leaders in the field of cancer metastasis will attend the Herrenhausen Symposium and participate in an interdisciplinary discussion that will point in the direction of solutions to the greatest challenges that the field of metastasis faces. Dr. Gelovani will join such authorities in the field of cancer metastasis as R. Charles Coombes (Imperial College London, UK), Rbert Kerbel (University of Toronto, Canada), Gregg Semenza (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA), and others.

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