The Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University is hosting the 2008 H Foundation Basic Sciences Symposium.  This year''s symposium is named in honor of the H Foundation for its commitment to raising money for basic science research.

The Sympsium is focused on RNAi and Cancer and features Nobel Laurete, Craig Mello, who n 2006, received the Nobel Prize for work that began in 1998, when Mello and Fire along with their colleagues published a paper in the journal Nature detailing how tiny snippets of RNA fool the cell into destroying the gene''s messenger RNA (mRNA) before it can produce a protein - effectively shutting specific genes down.