Robert M Hoffman
AntiCancer Inc, University of California San Diego, USA
Biography
Robert M. Hoffman completed his Ph.D. in Biology at Harvard University in 1971. His post-doctoral training was at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and Institutes of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Moscow, Russia. He has been a member of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine faculty since 1979 and is currently Professor of Surgery. He began his cancer research career in 1965 and in 1984 he founded AntiCancer, Inc. AntiCancer focuses on tumor-targeting bacteria; fluorescent protein-expressing patient-derived orthotopic xenograft (PDOX) mouse models of cancer; recombinant protein-based cancer drugs and diagnostics; as well as pluripotent hair follicle stem cells. Dr. Hoffman has published approximately 800 scientific papers which have been cited more than 30,000 times. In 2016, Dr. Hoffman was awarded the Sun Lee Prize from the International Society for Experimental Microsurgery.
Abstract
Abstract : Tumor-Targeting Salmonella typhimurium A1-R: An Overview