A conference being held in Windsor next month will provide a forum for researchers, graduate students and clinicians on both sides of the border to learn and share basic, clinical, and translational cancer research.

Bridging Research and Hope is a one-day conference being organized by the Windsor Cancer Research Group that will be held on Nov. 17 at the Caesars Windsor Convention Centre.

Keynote speakers include Patricia LaRusso from the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, leader of the largest Phase I clinical trials program in the U.S. and winner of a Stand Up 2 Cancer Dream Team Award to study novel methods of treating subtypes of melanoma; and Suzanne Conzen, a medical oncologist and professor of medicine at the University of Chicago with a clinical interest in the multidisciplinary care of locally advanced breast cancer which may require chemotherapy and radiation therapy prior to surgical resection.

Organizers are currently accepting abstracts of basic, translational, clinical, and psycho-social research to be presented at the conference either as a poster or a talk. Deadline for abstracts is Oct. 19.

For more information, visit the conference web site.