Program

BCTRG 2018 Program

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Thursday, January 18

Time Session/Lecture info
08:30-09:00
Gathering + coffee
 
09:00-09:40
Opening Session
 
09:00-09:10
Bella Kaufman and Moshe Oren
Greetings
09:10-09:40
Maurizio Scaltriti , Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Introduced by Sima Lev
Personalized medicine in breast cancer: ready for prime time
09:40-10:40
Session 1
Chair: Maya Dadiani 
09:40-10:00
Sima Lev, Weizmann Institute of Science
Combination therapy and drug resistance in triple negative breast cancer
10:00-10:20
Ella Evron, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center
DeltaNp73 may facilitate cancer susceptibility in BRCA mutated mammary epithelial cells
10:20-10:40
Amir Sonnenblick, Hadassah Medical Center
Dissecting the Akt/mTOR pathway in estrogen receptor positive breast cancers
10:40-11:00
Coffee break
 
11:00-12:20
Session 2
Chair: Sima Lev 
11:00-11:20
Noa Ben-Baruch, Kaplan Medical Center
The challenge of accurately treating HR positive, HER2 negative early breast cancer. Prospective outcome by using the 21 gene recurrence score
11:20-11:40
Rinat Yerushalmi and Annat Raiter, Rabin Medical Center
Breast cancer treatment decisions: from clinic to bench
11:40-12:00
Neta Erez, Tel Aviv University
Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Link Tissue Damage with Tumor-Promoting Inflammation in Breast Cancer
12:00-12:20
Ruth Scherz-Shouval, Weizmann Institute of Science
Transcriptional rewiring by stress responses in the breast tumor microenvironment
12:20-13:30
Lunch
 
13:30-14:00
 
13:30-14:00
Karen Gelmon , Vancouver Cancer Centre and University of British Columbia
Introduced by Bella Kaufman
The Difficulties of Moving from Bench to Guidelines- Targeting BRCA
14:00-15:00
Session 3
Chair: Ruth Scherz-Shouval 
14:00-14:20
Yuval Shaked, Technion
The host immunological response to cancer therapy: towards precision medicine
14:20-14:40
Maya Dadiani, Sheba Medical Center
Longitudinal transcriptomic patterns through the course of disease
14:40-15:00
Einav Gal-Yam , Sheba Medical Center
High Prevalence of ESR1 mutations in local recurrence of hormone-positive breast cancer
15:00-16:00
Discussion groups
 
15:00-16:00
Yoav Shaul and Shani Paluch Shimon
Omics and personalized medicine
15:00-16:00
Adit Ben-Baruch and Ido Wolf
Immunotherapy and tumor microenvironment
15:00-16:00
Dalit Barkan and Einav Gal-Yam
Resistance to therapy, tumor dormancy and liquid biopsies