PHILADELPHIA (August 4, 2022)—The Fels Cancer Institute for Personalized Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, in partnership with Fox Chase Cancer Center and Thomas Jefferson University, will host a free symposium, “Genome Instability: Discovery to Personalized Medicine.” This event will be held in person on Friday, October 14, 2022, at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Philadelphia.
“The inaugural symposium will feature world-leading scientists and clinicians studying basic mechanisms of genome biology as well as personalized medicine” said Tomasz Skorski, MD, PhD, DSc, director of the Fels Cancer Institute and associate director at Fox Chase. “Speakers will cover topics ranging from basic mechanisms to clinical targeting of DNA repair enzymes.”
Skorski, Neil Johnson, PhD, an associate professor in the Molecular Therapeutics research program at Fox Chase, and Richard Pomerantz, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Jefferson, are jointly chairing the event. The symposium will feature keynote speaker Mark O’Connor, PhD, chief scientist, DNA Damage Response in Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca.
Speakers will also include faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine and Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale School of Medicine, National Institute of Aging at NIH, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Laval University, University of Texas Health San Antonio, and The Wistar Institute.
Skorski said those with an interest in the most up-to-date advances in the DNA repair field and novel therapeutic approaches for cancer should attend, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral associates, professors, physicians, and members of the pharmaceutical industry.
The program will run from 8:20 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The event is free, but preregistration is required.
For more details, including a full list of speakers, and to register, visit the event page.