Potential new treatments of cancer is topic of Watkins Lecture Potential new treatments of cancer is topic of Watkins Lecture

"Hormones Made in the Heart: Potential New Treatments of Cancer" is the title of a public lecture at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, in 209 Hubbard Hall. The lecture is part of the Watkins Visiting Professorship Lecture Series: Biological Sciences. The guest lecturer is David L. Vesely, a cancer researcher at James A. Haley VA Hospital in Tampa, Fla. He also will give a technical lecture "Cardiac Hormones Have Beneficial Effects in Treating Heart Failure, Renal Failure and Cancer," at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20, in 218 Hubbard Hall.

Vesely is recognized for his discovery of three of the four known hormone peptides produced by the heart, and has most recently been engaged in research using the peptides in the treatment of congestive heart failure, renal failure and cancer.

He also has discovered that hormones produced by the heart eliminated human pancreatic cancer in more than three-quarters of the mice treated with the hormones and eliminated human breast cancer in two-thirds of the mice.

His work has been published in Anticancer Research and In Vivo.

The Watkins Visiting Professorship was created in 1974 by the Watkins Foundation. The grant is now provided through the Watkins fund, a part of the WSU Foundation's endowment.