Gynecologic Oncology Team

Stony Brook Cancer Center Breast Cancer Research Retreat

Stony Brook Cancer Center Breast Cancer Research Retreat
March 7, 2014 • 8am-4pm
Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook

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RETREAT AGENDA 
8:00-9:00amBreakfast
9:00-9:10amWelcome
Yusuf Hannun, MD, Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center
9:10-10:10amSession I: BREAST CANCER BIOLOGY AND SIGNALING (Chair: Christine Rizk, MD)
Michael Frohman: Role of the Signaling Enzyme Phospholipase D1 in Breast Cancer
Natalia Marchenko, PhD: Mutant p53 and Her2 Conspire to Expand Mammary Stem cells: Implications for Breast Cancer Therapy
Michael Hayman, PhD: Prodrugs Targeting Histone Deacetylases and Proteases in Cancer
10:10-11:10amSession II: BREAST CANCER PATHOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND EARLY DETECTION (Chair: Janice Lu, MD, PhD)
Kenneth Shroyer, MD, PhD:
1. Discovery of Cytokeratin 17 as a Biomarker of Triple Negative Breast Cancer
2. Pathology Department Resources for Basic and Translational Research
Barbara Nemesure: A Proposal for a Women’s High Risk Cancer Program
Paul Fisher: Dual Energy Tomosynthesis
11:10-11:20amBreak
11:20am-12:40pmSession III: TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH - BENCH TO BEDSIDE (Chair: Jian Cao)
Nurit Ballas: The Function of the Transcriptional Repressor REST as Tumor Suppressor in the Mammary Glands
Hsien-Yu Wang: Targeting Frizzled-7 Signaling in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Evguenia Alexandrova: p63 as a Novel Regulator of HER2-positive Breast Cancer
Gerald Thomsen: Evaluating a Novel GTPase as a Potential Breast Cancer Therapeutic Target
12:40-1:30pmLunch
1:30-2:50pmSession IV: BREAST CANCER CLINICAL RESEARCH (Chair: Brian O’Hea, MD)
Jules Cohen, MD: To be FDG or not to be FDG: PET/MRI and the study of chemobrain
Marian Evinger: Nicotine Activates Mammary Cell Signaling Pathways: Establishing the Link Between Smoking and Breast Cancer
Tamara Weiss, MD: Intraoperative Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer
Brian O’Hea, MD: Breast Cancer Update
2:50-3:00pmClosing Remarks (Lina Obeid)
3:00-4:00pm                        Poster Session (coffee and snacks)