2025 Breast Cancer Symposium Agenda

2025 Breast Cancer Symposium 

September 26, 2025 • 8:45 am to 4:30 pm

TIME TOPIC
8:45 to 9:30 am

Registration and Full Breakfast /Exhibitors

9:30 to 9:40 am

Welcome


Opening Remarks

Christopher Clarke, PhD
Associate Professor of Research
Stony Brook Cancer Center

 

Raymond C. Bergan, MD
 

 

9:40 to 10:40 am

Session 1: A Better Therapy

9:40 to 10:00 am

MDC1, a New Target of Therapy-Induced Senescence and Chemosensitization in Breast Cancer

Hyungjin Kim, PhD
Associate Professor
Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University

10:00 to 10:20 am

Targeting Sphingolipid Metabolism to Protect Against Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity 

Christopher Clarke, PhD
Associate Professor of Research
Stony Brook Cancer Center

10:20 to 10:40 am

Micro-RNA-Strategies to Overcome Primary and Acquired Resistance to Mainstay Triple Negative Breast Cancer Treatments               

Jun Chung, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Pathology

Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

10:40 to 11:05 am

Short Break and Meet with Exhibitors

11:05 to 11:20 am

Update on Breast Cancer Clinical Trials

Alison Stopeck, MD
Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Associate Director of Clinical and Translational Research
Stony Brook Cancer Center
Professor, Department of Medicine
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

11:20 to 12:20 pm

Keynote Speaker

Translating Translational Regulation in Breast Cancer Metastasis

Robert J. Schneider, PhD
Associate Dean for Therapeutics Alliances
Albert B. Sabin Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Pathogenesis, Dept of Microbiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Professor, Dept of Radiation Oncology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Co-Director of the Breast Cancer Research Program at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

12:20 to  1:20 pm

Lunch and Meet with Exhibitors

 1:20 to   2:20 pm Session 2: A Better Image
 1:20 to  1:40 pm

Artificial Intelligence for Personalizing Breast Cancer Screening and Addressing Health Disparities

Cindy Lee, MD, FSBI, FACMQ, CMQ
Chief, Breast Imaging
Vice Chair, Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology
Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University

 1:40 to  2:00 pm

Contrast-enhanced Mammography for Determining Response to
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

Anna Andrzejczyk, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor in Medicine
Medical Oncology
Stony Brook Cancer Center

 2:00 to  2:20 pm

Single Cell Analysis of Blood-Brain Barrier in Response to General Anesthetics in Brain Metastasis of Breast Cancer

Jun Lin, MD, PhD, FASA
Professor of Anesthesiology
Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University

 2:20 to 3:30 pm

Poster Session

 3:20 to 3:30 pm

Closing Remarks

 3:30 to 4:30 pm

Social Networking