By Li Nai

Special to the Tsinghua News Center

A Symposium on Cell Signaling in Cancer, Development and Stem Cells was held at Tsinghua on June 13-16, 2007. The symposium was co-organized by China’s State Key Lab of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, the US National Institute of Health, the University of Chicago and the Beijing Society for Cell Biology.

Professor Michael Karin from the University of California at San Diego gave the keynote speech entitled How inflammation affects cancer development and progression: the I kappaB Kinase (IKK) and beyond. About 36 scholars, including 24 foreign scientists from Japan, the USA, Israel and the Netherlands, presented their latest research results on cell signaling, differentiation and modulation of stem cells and cancer cells, and embryo development mechanisms at the three-day symposium. Nearly 200 people attended the symposium.