Symposium Agenda
46th Annual UNC Lineberger Cancer Symposium
April 24-25, 2023
Friday Center for Continuing Education, Chapel Hill, NC
Topic: Women’s Cancers
Monday, April 24
8:55 – 9:00 — Welcome, Shelley Earp, MD, UNC Lineberger Director
9:00 – 9:40 — Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, “Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer Across Diverse Populations and Geography”
9:50 – 10:20 — Nicholas Navin, PhD, “Decoding Premalignant Breast Cancer Progression with Archival Single Cell Genomics”
10:30 – 10:55 — Break
11:00 – 11:30 — Lisa Carey, MD, “Breast Cancer: Precision Medicine from the Beginning to Today”
11:40 – 12:10 — Melissa Troester, PhD, “From cells to society – an integrative approach to breast cancer equity”
12:20 – 12:50 — Jeffrey Rosen, PhD, “Leveraging Preclinical Models for Translational Breast Cancer Research”
12:55 – 1:45 — Lunch
1:45 – 2:15 — Sandy McAllister, PhD, “ Impact of Immune Age on Breast Cancer Progression and Therapeutic Response”
2:25 – 2:55 — Melissa Davis, PhD, “Uncovering Unique TNBC Pathways Through a Lens of Global Diversity”
2:55 – 3:25 — Katherine Hoadley, PhD, “Molecular mechanisms of exceptional responses in women’s cancers”
3:30 – 3:55 — Break
4:00 – 4:30 — Hector Franco, PhD, “A multi-omic dissection of gene expression re-wiring in women’s cancers”
4:40 – 5:10 — Charles Perou, PhD, “Quantitative Medicine for Breast Cancer Patients”
Tuesday, April 25
9:00 – 9:10 — Darren Tayama, MD, “Gilead’s Commitment to Oncology”
9:20 – 9:50 — David Huntsman, MD, “Cell context, mutation microenvironment and gynecologic cancers”
10:00 – 10:30 — Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, PhD, “Racial Disparities in Obesity-Driven Endometrial Cancer”
10:35 – 11:00 — Break
11:05 – 11:35 — Daniela Matei, MD, “Metabolic Dependencies in Ovarian Cancer”
11:40 – 12:20 — Jose Conejo-Garcia, MD, PhD, “Neglected humoral responses are required for spontaneous immune pressure against human ovarian cancer”
12:30 – 1:00 — Diego Castrillon, MD, PhD, “Diagnosis of Endometrial Precancer”
1:10 – 2:00 — Lunch