Conference Co-Chairs

Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, Penn State Hershey Medical Center

Dr. Donna L. George, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Dr. Maureen Murphy, Fox Chase Cancer Center

Members of the Organizing Committee

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p53 Workshop History

Links to Recent p53 Workshops

The 14th International p53 Workshop
October 27-31, 2008, Fudan University, Shanghai City, China
Photos from the p53 Workshop Shanghai Banquet
Photos from the p53 Workshop Speakers Pretour

The 13th International p53 Workshop
May 20-24th 2006, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

Chronological Record of 1st-15th p53 Workshops

The first p53 meeting was held at Marie Curie Research Institute, Oxted in England, and John Jenkins, the editor of the journal "Oncogene," was the organizer. It was in the spring of 1983, and about 15 to 25 people attended and gave talks. The first incomplete sequences of the mouse p53 c-DNAs were presented by three groups (Crawford, Oren and Levine, and Chumakov). The name p53 was agreed upon by all (previously it had been called 54K, p53, SV40 middle T, transformed cell 3T3 tumor antigen), and there was even a presentation about an EBV p53, which turned out to be incorrect--it was not the p53 under discussion.

Subsequently, meetings have been held about every two years.

# Year Location Organizer
1 1983 Oxted, England, UK John Jenkins
2 1987 Paris, France John Jenkins and Pierre May
3 1988 Oxted, England, UK John Jenkins and Pierre May
4 1990 Oxted, England, UK John Jenkins
5 1991 Princeton, USA Arnold J. Levine and Varda Rotter
6 1992 Tiberias, Israel Varda Rotter and Moshe Oren
7 1994 Muskoka, Ontario, Canada Sam Benchimol, Yaacov Ben-Daivd and Alan Bernstein
8 1996 Dundee, Scotland, UK David Lane and David Meek
9 1998 Crete Island, Greece Thanos Halezonetis
10 2000 Monterey, California, USA Thea Tlsty and Frank McCormick
11 2002 Barcelona, Spain Carlos Cordon-Cardo and Carol Prives
12 2004 Dunedin, New Zealand Anthony Braithwaite
13 2006 New York, New York, USA Carol Prives
14 2008 Shanghai, China Wei Gu amd Hua Lu
15 2010 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Wafik El-Deiry, Donna George and Maureen Murphy