2025 Breast Cancer Symposium Agenda

2025 Breast Cancer Symposium 

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

TIMETOPIC
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
Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center
Kavita and Lalit Bahl Endowed Cancer Center Director
Vice Dean for Cancer Medicine
Vice President for Cancer Services
9:40 to 10:40 am

Session 1: A Better Therapy

9:40 to 10:00 am

Pathways of Genotoxicity Under DNA Replication Catastrophe in Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome

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 pmLunch and Meet with Exhibitors
 1:20 to   2:20 pmSession 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

Ru Li, PhD, (Presenting for 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