2021 Conference Schedule
Agenda is set in the Mountain Daylight Time Zone (MDT)
7:30 am | Breakfast |
8:00 am | Welcome and Conference Goals – Alana Welm, PhD & Josh Newby |
8:20 am | Patient Advocate Welcome – Martha Carlson |
Session 1: Keynote
Moderator: Jeff Rosen, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine – View Bio *Virtual*
8:30 am | Jos Jonkers, PhD – Netherlands Cancer Institute – View Bio *Virtual* |
Session 2: Metastatic seed and soil
Moderator: Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – View Bio – *Virtual*
9:00 am | Heide Ford, PhD – University of Colorado – View Bio |
9:20 am | Pepper Schedin, PhD – Oregon Health & Science University – View Bio *Virtual* |
9:40 am | Mikala Egeblad, PhD – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – View Bio – *Virtual* |
10:00 am | Leah Cook, PhD – University of Nebraska Medical Center – View Bio |
10:20 am | Break |
Session 3: Immunology
Moderator: Kevin Barry, PhD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center – View Bio – *Virtual*
10:40 am | Valentina Hoyos, MD – Baylor College of Medicine – View Bio |
11:00 am | Matthew Krummel, PhD – University of California, San Francisco – View Bio |
11:20 am | Paula Bos, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University – View Bio *Virtual* |
11:40 am | Cyrus Ghajar PhD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center – View Bio *Virtual* |
12:00 pm | Lunch |
LightningTalks Day 1
Moderator: Chuck Perou, PhD – University of North Carolina – View Bio – *Virtual*
1:00 pm | LightningTalks |
2:00 pm | Break |
Session 4: Precision Medicine in MBC
Moderator: Bora Lim, MD – Baylor College of Medicine – View Bio
2:15 pm | Ben Park, MD, PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center – View Bio *Virtual* |
2:35 pm | Christos Vaklavas, MD – Huntsman Cancer Institute – View Bio |
2:55 pm | Minetta Liu, MD – Mayo Clinic – View Bio – *Virtual* |
3:15 pm Martha Carlson – – View Bio 3:35 pm Panel Discussion: Panelist: Martha Carlson Maryam Lustberg Yale – View Bio Elizabeth Papautsky – University of Illinois at Chicago – View Bio | |
Session 6: Breakthroughs in Treatment of MBC
Moderator: Jamie Fornetti, PhD – Huntsman Cancer Institute – View Bio
7:30 am | Breakfast |
7:50 am | Patient Advocate Welcome – Sheila McGlown |
Session 7: Keynote
Moderator: Alana Welm, PhD – Huntsman Cancer Institute – View Bio
8:00 am | Fran Visco, JD – National Breast Cancer Coalition – View Bio – *Virtual* |
Session 8: Emerging advances in MBC
Moderator: Namita Chittoria, MD – Huntsman Cancer Institute – View Bio
8:30 am | Senthil Muthuswamy, PhD – Harvard Medical School – View Bio |
8:50 am | Nick Navin, PhD, MD Anderson – View Bio – *Virtual* |
9:10 am | K-T Varley, PhD – Huntsman Cancer Institute – View Bio – *Virtual* |
9:30 am | Gloria Vittone Echeverria, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine – View Bio |
9:50 am | Break |
Session 9: Working Together to Change the Odds
Moderators: Josh Newby & Alana Welm, PhD
10:00 am | Hillary Stires, PhD – Collaboration with advocates: What Researchers need – View Bio |
10:30 am | Panel Discussion |
Session 10: Selected Topics in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Moderator: Adrian Lee, PhD – University of Pittsburgh – View Bio
11:10 am | Zachary Schafer, PhD – University of Notre Dame – View Bio |
11:30 am | Steffi Oesterreich, PhD – University of Pittsburgh – View Bio |
11:50 am | Chuck Harrell, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University – View Bio |
12:10 pm | Mike Oliphant, PhD – Harvard Medical School – View Bio |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
LightningTalks Day 2
Moderator: Jennifer Richer, PhD – University of Colorado – View Bio
1:00 pm | LightningTalks |
2:00 pm | Break |
Session 11: Site-Specific Metastasis
Moderator: Andy Ewald, PhD – Johns Hopkins Medicine – View Bio