46th Annual UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium

The 46th Annual Scientific Symposium will be held April 24-25, 2023, at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education in Chapel Hill, NC.

2023 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”

2:20 – 2:50 — 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”

4:35 – 5:05 — Charles Perou, PhD,  “Quantitative Medicine for Breast Cancer Patients”

Tuesday, April 25

9:00 – 9:40 — David Huntsman, MD, “Cell context, mutation microenvironment and gynecologic cancers”

9:50 – 10:20 — Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, PhD, “Racial Disparities in Obesity-Driven Endometrial Cancer”

10:30 – 10:55 — Break

11:00 – 11:30 — 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 – 1:10 — Diego Castrillon, MD, PhD,  “Diagnosis of Endometrial Precancer”