Hausen with students from Amna Bint Wahab Independent School for Girls who attended the lecture

More than 20% of cancer cases globally could be linked to viruses, bacteria and parasites as a large number of infectious agents have also been identified to either cause or contribute to specific human cancers, a study has found.
“Some epidemiological observations even suggest that this percentage will increase in the future. The recognition that no cancer linked to infections develops without additional modifications within the host-cell genome permits the speculation that even cancers with well-established chromosomal modifications deserve careful analysis for an additional involvement of infectious agents,” Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Professor Zur Hausen, said during the 12th Distinguished Lecture Series being showcased by the Qatar Foundation (QF) Research Division and held at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q).
Hausen, whose fresh medical knowledge and new outlook on treatment studies will undoubtedly give valuable contributions to QF’s mission to raise the standards of medical care in Qatar, presented new avenues for advancement in cancer and disease treatments during the lecture.
Furthermore, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), a member of QF’s Research Division, seeks to add Hausen’s contributions to its own research centres for disease.
“The Qatar Biomedical Research Institute has set up a number of research centres that are disease-focused, supported by core platforms addressing challenges facing Qatar and aimed at making global impact. Two of these areas are infectious diseases and cancer which are the subject of Hausen’s lecture,” QF Institutional Research director Dr Dirar S Khoury said.
For information about QF’s Distinguished Lecture Series, visit
http://www.qf-research-division.org/distinguished/.

 

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