The 8th annual Phil Gold Distinguished Lecture, "How understanding metabolism informs cancer progression" will be delivered by Dr. Matthew Vander Heiden, Director, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; Lester Wolfe Professor of Molecular Biology. Dr. Vander Heiden’s world-renowned research focuses on understanding the role of diet and certain metabolic processes in cell growth and how cancer cells adapt these processes to fuel tumor growth.

The Phil Gold distinguished lecture recognizes groundbreaking contributions to cancer research such as those made by Dr. Phil Gold, who discovered the first cancer biomarker and brought some of the world’s most visionary cancer scientists to the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institue (GCI). This is a joint seminar for the McGill Biochemistry department and the GCI.