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8:30-10:45 Targets and Pathways for Metastasis & Panel Discussion
Session Moderators: Hope Rugo, MD and Andrei Goga, MD, PhD

8:30-8:50 From Genetics to Cancer Therapeutics: New Frontiers in the RNA World
Trey Westbrook, PhD
8:50-9:10 Targeting Dormant, Disseminated Breast Tumor Cells for Metastasis Prevention
Cyrus Ghajar, PhD
9:10-9:30 Reimagining Druggability using Chemoproteomic Platforms
Daniel Nomura, PhD
9:30-9:50 Metastatic Approaches and Clinical Trials at UCSF
Hope Rugo, MD and Andrei Goga, MD, PhD
9:50-10:00 Advocate Perspective: Challenges and Needs for Metastasis
Vivian Lee, UCSF Breast Cancer Science Advocate
10:00-10:35 Panel Discussion and Q&A
Panelists: All speakers listed above

10:35-10:40 Bio Break

10:40-10:55 UCSF Hot Topic
RNA Mechanisms and Targets  for Metastasis
Hani Goodarzi, PhD

10:55-11:35 Best Abstract Talks
Moderator: Laura van 't Veer, PhD

10:55-11:05 How aging makes mammary epithelial cells susceptible to immortalization
Tara Fresques, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, City of Hope Hospital, Beckman Research Institute, Mark LaBarge Laboratory
11:05-11:15 Heterogeneity in epithelial proportions and cell state underlie major premenopausal breast cancer risks
Lyndsay Murrow, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Zev Gartner Laboratory

11:15-11:25 Combination Immunotherapy to Overcome MYC-Dependent Immune Evasion in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Joyce V Lee, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, Andrei Goga Laboratory

11:25-11:35 Positioning a selective bi-steric mTOR complex 1 inhibitor in drug resistant breast cancer
Delong Meng, PhD, Specialist, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, Sourav Bandyopadhyay Laboratory

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