Basser Center for BRCA 13th Annual Scientific Symposium Agenda for Wednesday, April 23, 2025


Located at the Smilow Center for Translational Research Auditorium/Commons at Penn Medicine (enter through Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine).

7:30-8:15 AM

Registration

8:15-8:30 AM

Welcome


 

MORNING SESSION


8:30-9:00 AM

Professor Rob Bristow, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FMedSci

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9:00-9:30 AM  

Irfan Asangani, PhD

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9:30-10:00 AM

Salma Kaochar, PhD

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10:00-10:30 AM 

Kara Maxwell, MD, PhD

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10:30-11:00 AM

BREAK 

 

11:00-11:30 AM

Victor Velculescu, MD, PhD 

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11:30-12:00 PM

Trevor Pugh, PhD, FACMG

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12:00-1:00 PM

LUNCH
 


 

AFTERNOON SESSION


1:00-1:30 PM

Maggie Mullen, MD

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1:30-2:00 PM  

TBD

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2:00-2:30 PM

Titia de Lange, PhD

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2:30-3:00 PM 

BREAK

 

3:00-3:30 PM

Maria Jasin, PhD

Protecting the Genome by Homologous Recombination

 

3:30-4:30 PM

Patrick Sung, DPhil 

Global Prize Presentation and Keynote 
Mechanism of BRCA1/BRCA2-dependent DNA Damage Repair

 

4:30-4:45 PM

Wrap Up and Evaluations

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End of accredited portion

 

5:00-6:30 PM

Breakthroughs & Discoveries Panel

Moderated by Susan Domchek, MD
Featuring Patrick Sung, DPhil, Kara Maxwell, MD, PhD, and Gareth Evans, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCOG

This lay session is open to the public.