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).

7:30-8:00 AM

Registration

8:00-8:15 AM

Welcome


 

MORNING SESSION


8:15-8:45 AM

Professor Rob Bristow, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FMedSci

Molecular Indices and New Models for Aggressive Hereditary Prostate Cancer

 

8:45-9:15 AM  

Irfan Asangani, PhD

Inducing BRCAness in HR Proficient Metastatic Prostate Cancer

 

9:15-9:45 AM

Salma Kaochar, PhD

Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Aggressive Prostate Cancer   

 

9:45-10:15 AM 

Kara Maxwell, MD, PhD

Genetics of Prostate Cancer Risk

 

10:15-10:45 AM

BREAK 

 

10:45-11:15 AM

Victor Velculescu, MD, PhD 

Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer Using Cell-Free DNA Fragmentomes and Protein Biomarkers

 

11:15-11:45 AM

Trevor Pugh, PhD, FACMG

Cell-Free DNA Sequencing for Early Detection of Hereditary Cancer

 

11:45-12:15 PM

Powel Brown, MD, PhD

PARP Inhibitors for Breast Cancer Prevention

 

12:15-1:15 PM

LUNCH
 


 

AFTERNOON SESSION


1:15-1:45 PM

Maggie Mullen, MD

Replication Stress Marker Phospho-RPA2 Predicts Response to DNA Damaging Agents in Homologous Recombination-Proficient Ovarian Cancer

 

1:45-2:15 PM  

Titia de Lange, PhD

Attenuation of ATM Signaling by ROS Delays Replicative Senescence at Physiological Oxygen  

 

2:15-2:45 PM 

Maria Jasin, PhD

Protecting the Genome by Homologous Recombination

 

2:45-3:00 PM 

BREAK

 

3:00-4:00 PM

Patrick Sung, DPhil 

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

 

4:00-4:15 PM

Wrap Up and Evaluations

 

End of accredited portion

 

4:30-6:00 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.