Annual Symposium XXVI

Target Audience

This Symposium is intended for physicians, scientists and students with an interest in the expanding field of cancer metabolism.

Purpose and Content

Abnormal metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. Despite decades of study, our understanding of cancer metabolism is remarkably incomplete. New and evolving concepts in oncometabolites, metabolic reprogramming, fluctuations in energetic fuel sources, and metabolic heterogeneity may become additional hallmarks. Given the resurgent interest in cancer and its interactions with metabolism, a review of the field is timely. In this Symposium, recent discoveries in many facets of cancer metabolism will be presented by internationally-recognized experts. Basic approaches to simulating and quantifying cancer metabolism will be reviewed. New methods for imaging cancer metabolism in human patients will be presented, including a demonstration of sample preparation and operation of hyperpolarized ¹³C MRI set-up. This Symposium was organized in collaboration with the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and it is supported by the National Institute of Health - National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIH-NIBIB: EB015908) and by UT Southwestern.

Educational Objectives

In-depth understanding of cancer metabolism will be highly beneficial to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Upon completion of the Symposium, attendees should be able to:

• Describe the available analytical methods for measuring carbon metabolism in a tumor
• Describe the fundamental principles and applications of hyperpolarized ¹³C MRI
• Understand the correlation between abnormal metabolism and cancer
• Explain the current advancements of metabolic imaging in cancer by hyperpolarized ¹³C MRI.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Thursday, January 31, 2018