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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Lurie Cancer Center and Northwestern Medicine Experts Present at SABCS22

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Physicians and scientists from the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University and Northwestern Medicine will lead and participate in a wide range of sessions at the 45th annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 6 -10, 2022.

This year’s conference is designed to provide state-of-the-art information on the experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant breast disease, to an international audience of academic and private physicians and researchers.  

Select presentations by Lurie Cancer Center investigators are listed below. 

Wednesday, December 7

Presenting Author: Atieh Hajirahimkhan, PhD
(P2-08-01) Licochalcone A from licorice reprograms metabolic and antioxidant pathways in the breast leading to a tumor preventive environment.
7:00 a.m – 8:15 a.m.
Hall 1

Co-Chair: Kalliopi Siziopikou, MD, PhD
Special Session: HER2 Low: A Separate Entity?
9:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Hall 3

Panelist: Jonathan Strauss, MD
Clinical Case Discussion Session
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Stars at Night Ballroom

Presenting Author: Wenan Qiang, MD, PhD
(P3-08-03) Establishment of patient-derived xenograft tumor models from breast cancer patients for quantitative elemental profiles and testing candidate therapies
5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Hall 1

Thursday, December 8

Moderator: Seema Khan, MD
Management of Hereditary Risk: Moderate-Risk Genes and New Approaches
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Hemisfair Ballroom

Presenting Author: Seema Khan, MD
PD15-12 A pre-surgical window trial of oral tamoxifen versus transdermal 4-hydroxytamoxifen gel in women with estrogen receptor positive duct carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
5:00 p.m. – 6:15 p.m.
Hemisfair Ballroom

Friday, December 9

Presenting Author: Susan Clare, MD, PhD
(P6-11-08) Non-transformed breast epithelial cells show neural-like gene signature after lipid exposure
7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Hall 1

Presenting Author: Mariana Bustamente Eduardo, PhD
(P6-11-03) Lipid-rich environment induces epigenetic reprogramming in non-transformed breast epithelial cells enhancing a mammary cell plasticity
7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Hall 1

Moderator: Kalliopi Siziopikou, MD, PhD
Advances in Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer (PABC) (People’s Choice)
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Stars at Night Ballroom

Presenter: Kalliopi Siziopkikou, MD, PhD
Updates in the Pathology of Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer (PABC)
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Stars at Night Ballroom

Panelist: Kalliopi Siziopikou, MD, PhD
View From the Trenches: What Will You Do on Monday Morning?
5:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
Stars at Night Ballroom