Precision Oncology: Emerging Technologies & Implementation (A1)
January 12-15, 2025  | Beaver Run Conference Center, Breckenridge, CO, United States
John D. Carpten, David Solit and Chanita H Hughes Halbert
Scholarship Deadline: Oct. 30, 2024 | Abstract Deadline: Dec. 20, 2024 | Early Registration Deadline: Nov. 22, 2024
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 4 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, January 12, 2025
4:00–8:00 PM Registration Colorado Ballroom Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Colorado Ballroom Foyer
Monday, January 13, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Summit Gallery
8:00–9:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address Peaks 4 & 5
  * John D. Carpten, City of Hope Cancer Center
Session Chair
 
  Elaine R Mardis, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Complex Molecular Characterization of Pediatric Cancers: Setting the Stage for Precision Diagnosis and Therapy
 
9:00–11:15 AM Targeted Therapeutics Peaks 4 & 5
  Frank S McCormick, University of California, San Francisco
Targeting Ras in Human Cancer
 
  * Christine Lovly, Vanderbilt University
Sensitivity and Resistance to Kinase Inhibitors in Cancer
 
  * Lillian L Siu, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Targeted Cytotoxics: Advances in Antibody Drug Conjugates
 
  Hee Won Yang, Columbia University
Short Talk: Deciphering the Mechanism Underlying Resistance to pan-RAS Inhibitors
 
  Jeff Perry, City of Hope
Short Talk: Small Molecule-Based Targeting of PCNA Protein to Develop a Cancer-Selective Chemotherapy
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Colorado Ballroom Foyer
11:15–1:00 PM Poster Setup Peaks 1 - 3
11:15–4:30 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Peaks 1 - 3
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Colorado Ballroom Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM Clinical Trial Advances/Insights/Design Peaks 4 & 5
  David Solit, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Lessons from the Study of Exceptional Responders
 
  * Vivek Subbiah, Sarah Cannon Research Institute
New Clinical Trial Designs for the Precision Medicine Era
 
  Sunantha Sethuraman, Repare Therapeutics
Short Talk: Utility of Circulating Tumor DNA (Ctdna) to Support Early Clinical Development of the PKMYT1 Inhibitor Lunresertib (Lunre) Alone or in Combination with the ATR Inhibitor Camonsertib (Cam) in the MYTHIC Phase I Trial
 
6:45–7:45 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Peaks 1 - 3
7:15–10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Peaks 1 - 3
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Summit Gallery
8:00–11:00 AM Precision Oncology and Disparities (Implementation and Discovery) Peaks 4 & 5
  Rizwana Mia, South African Medical Research Council
Remote Presentation: Precision Oncology Disparities in South Africa
 
  Rick Kittles, Morehouse School of Medicine
Reimagining Health Equity in the Era of Precision Medicine
 
  Clayton C. Yates, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Using Precision Oncology to Support Innovation in Prostate Cancer Equity
 
  * Chanita H Hughes Halbert, University of Southern California
Intersection Between Social and Biological Risk Factors on the Pathway to Cancer Health Equity
 
  Nick Pannunzio, University of Califormia Irvine
Short Talk: Increased AID Results in Mutations at the CRLF2 Locus Implicated in Latin American ALL Health Disparities
 
  Lixing Yang, University of Chicago
Short Talk: Data-Driven Drug Discovery Targeting Transcription and Replication Collision in Cancer
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Colorado Ballroom Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Peaks 1 - 3
11:00–1:30 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Peaks 1 - 3
2:00–3:15 PM Symposia Spotlight: Late-Breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions Peaks 4 & 5
  * Clayton C. Yates, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  Tomas Babak, Leapfrog Bio
EP300 Loss of Function is a Pan-Cancer Sensitizer to BET Inhibition
 
  Yaniv Kazansky, Weill Cornell Medicine
Overcoming Clinical Resistance to EZH2 Inhibition Using Rational Epigenetic Combination Therapy
 
  Luke Pike, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
EGFR Alteration Subtype Predicts the Benefit Of Stereotactic Radiosurgery in Patients with NSCLC Brain Metastasis
 
  Poulikos I. Poulikakos, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
RAF/MEK Glue Mechanism on RAF Enables RAS Mutant Tumor-Selective Therapy
 
3:30–4:30 PM Career Roundtable Peaks 4 & 5
  Clayton C. Yates, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Professor
 
  Manisha Rao, AstraZeneca
Senior Scientist
 
  Peter W. Szlosarek, Barts Cancer Institute
Professor & Group Leader, Physician Scientist
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Colorado Ballroom Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Precision Immuno-oncology / Overcoming Immune Evasion Through Combination Therapies Peaks 4 & 5
  * David Solit, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Session Chair
 
  Padmanee Sharma, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Advancing Immune Checkpoint Targets in Cancer
 
  Marta Luksza,  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Novel Computational Methods to Define Immunotherapy Sensitivity
 
  Alona Sosinsky, Genomics England
Integrating Genome Sequencing into Clinical Practice for Cancer Patients
 
  Christine Yeh, Stanford University
Short Talk: Mapping Spatial Organization and Genetic Cell-State Regulators to Target Immune Evasion in Ovarian Cancer
 
  Kyuson Yun, Houston Methodist/Weill Cornell Medical College
Short Talk: A Novel Functional Precision Oncology Platform Technology: E-Slice with Intact TME for Immunotherapy and Other Cancer Therapy Response Measurements from Human Tumors
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Peaks 1 - 3
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Peaks 1 - 3
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Summit Gallery
8:00–11:00 AM Technologies for Biomarker Discovery (Discovery Through Application in the Clinic) Peaks 4 & 5
  * Christina Curtis, Stanford University
Genomic, Immune and Microenvironmental Biomarkers in Breast Cancer
 
  * Colin D. Weekes, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harnessing Tumor Plasticity for Therapeutic Intent
 
  Ericca Stamper, Dovetail Genomics, Part of Cantata Bio LCC
Short Talk: Linkprep™ – A Comprehensive Assay for Cancer Genome Characterization that Enables Ultra-Sensitive Detection of Structural Variants
 
  Emily Madden, EpiCypher, Inc
Short Talk: Chromatin Profiling from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Samples for Biomarker Discovery
 
  Oliver Jonas, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Short Talk: Clinical Implementation of Implantable Microdevices to Identify Highly Effective Treatment Combinations in Cancer Patients
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Colorado Ballroom Foyer
11:00–4:30 PM On Own for Lunch
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Colorado Ballroom Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM Data Science, Informatics, AI & Machine Learning Peaks 4 & 5
  Eliezer M. Van Allen, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Remote Presentation: Convergence of Machine Learning and Multi-omics for Precision Cancer Medicine
 
  * David Craig, City of Hope
Informatics Strategies for Incorporating Genetic Ancestry in Precision Oncology
 
  Benjamin Greenbaum, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Learning what the Immune System Senses in Cancer and When It Matters
 
  John Paul Shen, University of Texas MD Anderson
Short Talk: Utilizing an Automated, NLP-aided Platform to Generate Large (>10,000 patient), Comprehensive Clinical & Molecular Datasets to Enable a Real-World Evidence Approach to Precision Oncology
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Peaks 4 & 5
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Peaks 1 - 3
8:00–9:00 PM Cash Bar Peaks 1 - 3
8:00–9:00 PM Entertainment Peaks 4 - 5
Thursday, January 16, 2025
12:00–11:59 PM Departure