Special Issue "Heat Shock Proteins in Cancer: Chaperones of Tumorigenesis"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Michael Y. Sherman
Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 East Concord Street K-323, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Website: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/biochemistry/people/faculty/michael-y-sherman/
E-Mail: sherma1@bu.edu
Phone: +1-617-638-5971
Fax: +1-617-638-5339
Interests: heat shock proteins; hsf1; senescence; breast cancer

Guest Editor
Dr. Stuart K. Calderwood
Department of Radiation Oncology, Division of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Beth Israel Deaconess medical School, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 2215, USA
Website: http://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/53611
E-Mail: scalderw@bidmc.harvard.edu
Interests: heat shock protein; molecular chaperone; HSF1; apoptosis; senescence; tumor growth; invasion; metastasis; angiogenesis; immunogenicity; ras; p53

Dear Colleagues,

Population studies and laboratory data with cells and model organisms indicate that various heat shock proteins play an important role in the genesis and progression of many cancer types. These works led to development of inhibitors of heat shock proteins, some of which have been tested in clinical trials. Since recently we have started understanding the mechanistic aspects of the role of heat shock proteins in cancer, which hopefully will teach us how to rationally combine the inhibitors with other anti-cancer drugs and what types of cancer can be treated with these inhibitors. This issue of Cancers, "Heat shock proteins in cancer: chaperones of tumorigenesis" seeks articles which will shed new light on this topic.

Prof. Dr. Michael Y. Sherman
Dr. Stuart K. Calderwood
Guest Editors

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• chaperones
• heat shock proteins
• cancer initiation
• oncogene-induced senescence
• cancer progression
• metastasis
• angiogenesis