WVU Cancer Institute to host Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The WVU Cancer Institute will host the fifth annual Great Lakes Breast Cancer Research Symposium on Sept. 10-12 at the WVU Erickson Alumni Center in Morgantown.    

The three-day conference, which begins at 12:30 p.m. with registration and lunch, will highlight ongoing basic, translational, clinical, and population research, addressing the biological mechanisms, diagnostics, and prevention of breast cancer. 

The mission of the symposium is to bring together a diverse audience to create a collaborative research environment with a long-term goal of developing cross-institutional collaborations, clinical trials, and treatments for breast cancer.

The plenary speaker sessions will take place on at 5 p.m. Sept. 10 and 8 a.m. on Sept. 12. Sunday’s plenary speaker will be Rakesh Jain, Ph.D., the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Tumor Biology and Radiation Oncology and director of the E.L. Steele Laboratories for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. 

On Tuesday, Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, Ph.D., Rose C. Falkenstein Chair in Cancer Research; director of the Institute for Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment; and professor of cell biology, medical oncology, and oncology and hematology at the Albert Einsten College of Medicine in New York, will give a presentation.

To learn more and register to attend, visit WVUCancer.org/GLBCRS. The registration deadline is Sept. 1.

For more information on the WVU Cancer Institute, visit WVUMedicine.org/Cancer.