The American Cancer Society’s Dr. William C. Phelps to Speak in Savannah


Dr. William Phelps, PhD of the American Cancer Society will be speaking on December 7th, 2011 at 6 p.m. at Memorial University Medical Center’s Medical Education Auditorium. He will be providing a presentation on the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Research – “ACS and Cancer Research: A 60 Year History”.

Dr. Phelps is currently the Scientific Program Director at the National Home Office of the American Cancer Society, heading the Preclinical and Translational Cancer Research Program.

Dr. Phelps has been involved in antiviral and anti-cancer research for several years. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute for three years until taking a position with Burroughs Wellcome Co. in 1988. Here, he remained in antiviral and anti-cancer research with the pharmaceutical industry for 13 years, leaving as Head of the Department of Virology for GlaxoSmithKline. Most recently, he spent two and one half years with a small startup biotech company, Ribonomics, Inc. as VP, Research and Development until joining the American Cancer Society in 2004.

Additionally, he held an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University Medical Center from 1996-2004, and completed a certification program from American University in Change Leadership. Dr. Phelps’s presentation on December 7th will provide information on the advances of cancer research provided by American Cancer Society over a 60-year history overview.

This presentation will take place at Memorial University Medical Center’s Medical Education Auditorium on December 7th, at 6 p.m. This offering is funded by American Cancer Society and supported by Memorial University Medical Center’s Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson’s Cancer Institute.

The event is open to the public at no cost. To participate, please R.S.V.P. by Friday, December 2nd, 2011. Please contact Deborah Hood at 912.355.5196 or via e-mail at deborah.hood@cancer.org..

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