18TH ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CANCER-RESEARCH WORKSHOP

The Eighteenth Annual Interdisciplinary Cancer Research Workshop was a nother one in a highly successful series of these New Orleans workshop s. It was held on March 3, 1995, in a new location - at the J. Bennett Johnston Building of the Tulane University Medical Center. With a sin gle exception, all the previous workshops took place at the University of New Orleans. Similarly, as all the past workshops, it was sponsore d by the Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans, a United Way Agenc y. It was again organized by Peter Politzer (University of New Orleans ), with the assistance of Anita H. Buckel (University of New Orleans) and James R. Jeter (Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans) . The three invited speakers were William N. Hair (The Cancer Institut e of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ), Joachim G. Liehr (Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, The Univers ity of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX), and Patrice C. Ferriola (Department of Cell and Molecular Toxicology, Chemical Ind ustry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle Park, NC). A one-hour discussion period after the conclusion of the last presentation repre sented an excellent forum for an exchange of ideas and research result s among the speakers and the workshop participants. Lee Roy Morgan (De kk-Tec, New Orleans) served as the moderator of the discussion session .