Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 6 , Pages 1196-1207 , December 2009

A novel HSP90 modulator with selective activity against thyroid cancers in vitro

  • Abbas Samadi, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
  • ,
  • Peter Loo, BS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
  • ,
  • Rithwi Mukerji, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
  • ,
  • Gemma O'Donnell, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  • ,
  • Xiaqin Tong, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  • ,
  • Barbara N. Timmermann, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicinal Chemistry, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  • ,
  • Mark S. Cohen, MD, FACS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Mark S. Cohen, MD, FACS, Vice Chairman for Research, Department of Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, 2035 Sutherland Institute, Mail Stop 2005, 3901Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160.

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 Presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Madison, Wisconsin, May 2–5, 2009.

 Supported in part by research grants from the National Institutes of Health (P20 RR016443 to B.N.T. and M.S.C.) through the University of Kansas Center for Cancer Experimental Therapeutics (CCET) National Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) Program.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00569-8

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.09.028

Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 6 , Pages 1196-1207 , December 2009