Target Audience

Des Moines University faculty, staff, and students.

Topics

Exploring The Mechanism of Combination Therapy on Aggressive Natural Killer Cell Leukemia

• General knowledge of natural killer cells and the malignancies they can develop.
• Potential effects of Statins and Verapamil in combination with chemotherapeutic agents on proliferation, the cell cycle, and cytoxicity of Natural Killer Cells.
• Understanding the role that P-glycoprotein plays in multi-drug resistance and how inhibiting it may increase efficacy of chemotherapeutic agents.

MST-312 Effect on HSV-1 Replication

• Be able to understand the course of HSV-1 infection.
• Be able to understand MST-312's involvement in the inhibition of HSV-1 infection.
• Be able to compare MST-312 with EGCG, in context of their roles in HSV-1 infection.

Speakers

Elizabeth Tillinghast, MBS-17

Imran Abbasi, DO-16