The Two Faces of Breast Cancer: Genes and the Microenvironment

JOE GRAY, Berkeley Lab Life Sciences Division Director
MINA BISSELL, former Life Sciences Division Director
MARY HELEN BARCELLOS-HOFF, Life Sciences Division Deputy Director

Moderated by DR. SUSAN M. LOVE, President and Medical Director of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation

A dynamic panel of Berkeley Lab scientists will highlight breast cancer research advances related to susceptibility, early detection, prevention, and therapy — a biological systems approach to tackling the disease from the molecular and cellular levels, to tissues and organs, and ultimately the whole individual.

Joe Gray, Berkeley Lab Life Sciences Division Director, explores how chromosomal abnormalities contribute to cancer and respond to
gene-targeted therapies.

Mina Bissell, former Life Sciences Division Director, approaches the challenge of breast cancer from the breast’s three-dimensional tissue
microenvironment and how the intracellular “conversation” triggers malignancies.

Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, Deputy Director, Life Sciences Division, identifies what exposure to ionizing radiation can tell us about how
normal tissues suppress carcinogenesis.

The panel will be moderated by Susan M. Love, breast cancer research pioneer, author, President and Medical Director of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.

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