As the research director of Glenn Family Breast Center, Yong Wan participated in organizing the Emory Breast Cancer Strategic Planning Meeting with Kevin Kalinsky and other colleagues on October 14. The objective of this meeting is to provide opportunities for clinical, preclinical, and public health researchers from surrounding research institutions to develop collaboration projects and initiate the preparation of multiple-investigator grant as well as breast SPOREs.
Several topics about current clinical challenges and basic research directions were discussed including:
(1) Disparity
(2) Novel targets and therapeutics strategies
(3) development of prognostic and predictive markers
(4) Non-immune therapeutic mechanisms for overcoming resistance
(5) Immune therapy pathways and overcoming resistance
(6) carcinogenesis, prevention and survivorship.
Drs. Yueming Zhu, Olena Odnokoz, Lidan Zeng, Donghong Zhang, Cindy Cui and graduate students Jack Chi and Qiao Jiao presented their research projects during the meeting.
