Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center will host the 11th annual Zubrod Memorial Lecture and Cancer Research Poster Session this Friday in honor of its founding director, Charles Gordon Zubrod, M.D.

The event will begin at 1:30 p.m. at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Diagnostic Treatment Center, second-floor conference room. The 11th Annual Zubrod Memorial Lecture titled "Modeling Human Cancer in the Mouse" will be presented at 2 p.m. by 2007 Nobel Prize winner Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., professor of biology and human genetics at the University of Utah's Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Following the lecture, attendees are invited to view posters from 3 to 4:30 p.m., and attend the award ceremony at 4:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

No RSVP is required. For further information, contact Kathy Salce at ksalce@med.miami.edu.