Program Schedule

• 10:00 – 11:00
  • Alan Ashworth, Ph.D. FRS
    President, Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF
    “Synthetic Lethal Approaches to Cancer Therapy”
• 11:00 – 11:30
  • Stephen Kowalczykowski, Ph.D.
    Distinguished Professor, Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
    “Functions of BRCA1, BRCA2, and RAD51 Paralogs in Maintaining Chromosome Integrity”
• 11:30 – 11:50 : Coffee break
• 11:50 – 12:20
  • Christopher Lucchesi, Ph.D.
    T32 Fellow, Chen Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine
    “Inhibiting the inhibitor: Exploring the p53-Rbm38 loop as a potential cancer therapeutic target”
• 12:30 – 1:00
  • Workshop led by Dr. Ashworth
    “Basic science to clinical application: Are there shortcuts in the 100 m dash?”