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Daniel Grass

Title: The Role of CD147 in Breast Cancer Progression
Major Advisor: Dr. Bryan P. Toole

Date and Location: Thursday, May 24 at 9:00a.m. in the Basic Science Building, Room 611

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Lee Wheless

Title: The Association Between Common Variants in Nucleotide Excision Repair Genes and Non-melanoma Skin Cancer
Major Advisor: Dr. Anthony Alberg

Date and Location: Wednesday, May 30 at 10:00a.m. in Room 301, Cannon Place

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Rooting out natural treasure

Indiana Jones, move over. MUSC has its own globe trotter searching for international finds. With a treasure trove of barks, plants and fruit extracts stashed on shelves in his laboratory, Michael J. Wargovich, Ph.D., loves roaming the globe in pursuit of natural plants and products that may hold clues to prevention and treatment of cancer.

The ethnobotanist, who recently finished submitting six grants in two weeks, is a professor of cell and molecular pharmacology at MUSC, and has a wait list of students who want to work in his laboratory. Arriving at MUSC four years ago after 15 years at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Wargovich has been a chemoprevention researcher for more than 20 years. He started with pharmaceutical drugs and then moved to dietary compounds after noticing interesting associations with what people eat in other areas of the world and lower incidences of cancer.