A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs
- đ¤ Speaker: Professor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine
- đ Date & Time: Monday 25 January 2016, 18:00 - 19:00
- đ Venue: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry
Abstract
Abstract: We have used biochemical methods and genetic approaches in a variety of organisms ranging from worms to man to investigate how cells sense oxygen, and what they do in response to changes in its availability. This has uncovered a highly conserved pathway which operates in all metazoans. It is important in development, physiology and disease â perhaps most notably in cancer. The underlying oxygen sensing mechanism can be activated by small molecules which are now being tested as therapies for anaemia and ischaemic conditions.
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Professor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine
Monday 25 January 2016, 18:00-19:00