AGENDA

15:30	Welcome
	David Kenny, Chair, PAGSE
15:35	Opening Remarks
	The Honourable Gilbert Normand, P.C., M.P.  Secretary of State (Science, Research and Development)
15:45	"New strategies in cancer control research."
	Dr. Philip Branton, Director CIHR Cancer Institute, McGill University
16:00	"Why don't we all get cancer ?"
	Dr. David Andrews, Professor Department of Biochemistry, Canada Research Chair in Membrane Biogenesis, McMaster University
16:30	"Hereditary susceptibility to breast and prostate cancer."
	Dr. Jacques Simard, Director Laboratory of Hereditary Cancers, Université Laval
17:00	Break
17:15	"Medical diagnosis via novel methods: The interdisciplinary approach."
	Dr. Ian Smith, FCIC, Director General Institute for Biodiagnostics, N.R.C. Winnipeg
17:45	"The rocky road from gene discovery to improvement in health."
	Dr. Brenda Gallie, Professor University of Toronto, Head Cancer Informatics, Ontario Cancer Institute/ Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network
18:15	Reception
18:45	Dinner
20:00	"A good drug is hard to find; A perfect one takes longer."
	Dr. Robert N. Young, Vice-President Medicinal Chemistry Merck Frosst Inc.
21:00	Close