Join leading cancer researchers on Thursday, October 27, for Moving Breast Cancer Treatments Forward, a symposium that tackles how we can better diagnose and treat cancer.
The morning panel will focus on targeting therapeutic vulnerabilities of metastatic breast cancer cells and the afternoon panel will focus on spatial analysis of breast cancer heterogeneity and microenvironmental interactions.
One of the world’s leading cancer researchers, Jorge Reis-Filho, MD, PhD, with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, will deliver the Jayne Koskinas Memorial Lecture. Early registration is available to JKTG Foundation newsletter subscribers and friends.
“By convening a distinguished group to talk possibilities, discoveries, and the research behind both, we get one step closer to better health care for those diagnosed with cancer,” said Ted Giovanis, founder and president of JKTG Foundation.
“The Foundation strongly believes in the power of collaboration and events such as this give an opportunity for traditionally siloed research to creatively question traditional thinking and transform how we diagnose and treat cancer.”
Sponsored by the JKTG Foundation, the event is supported by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
Featured news
Applying nanoparticles and the immune system to fight cancer
JKTG-funded research, Iron oxide nanoparticles inhibit tumor progression and suppress lung metastases in mouse models of breast cancer, appears in the journal ACS Nano and features a collaboration between researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Hormel Institute at the University of Minnesota.
Ted’s Take: It’s about the money
Money is what seems to drive things and money is what seems to drive organizations too. They all start with an overriding moral goal but after a while things often turn toward more money.
Ted’s Take: The best patient advocate? You.
When you’re a patient, you are kind of vulnerable. You have a problem, are often sketchy about what it is and the potential treatment or therapy needed. The bigger the problem, the more vulnerable you are. This makes you a perfect advocate.
Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis
Foundation for Health and Policy
PO Box 130
Highland, Maryland 20777
Media contact: 202.548.0133