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Three researchers to be honored at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
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Three highly regarded researchers will be honored at this year’s San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, scheduled for Dec. 4-8.
Ian Smith, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, will receive the William L. McGuire Memorial Lecture Award.
Smith, professor of cancer medicine at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Cancer Research in London, will be recognized for his research and testing of aromatase inhibitors, his work in neoadjuvant endocrine therapy for patients with large operable cancers, and his contributions to oncology training in the United Kingdom.
Ann Partridge, MD, MPH, will receive the 2018 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research.
Partridge, professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, will be recognized for her efforts to characterize the medical and psychological challenges facing young women with breast cancer. This work has laid the foundation for future research in this understudied population.
Zena Werb, PhD, will be the recipient of the 2018 AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research.
Werb, professor of anatomy and associate director of basic science at Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of California, San Francisco, will be honored for her studies designed to elucidate the mechanistic role of the extracellular microenvironment in regulating breast epithelial cell function. This work has greatly improved the understanding of mammary gland development, as well as breast cancer progression and metastasis.
“These very deserving recipients are the reason SABCS remains a leading global educational resource in research and treatment of breast cancer,” symposium codirector C. Kent Osborne, MD, director of Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine, said in a press release. “Their lectures about their work fulfill our mission of providing state-of-the-art information to scientists and physicians focusing on breast cancer.”
Margaret Foti, PhD, MD (hc) — CEO of American Association for Cancer Research, an SABCS cosponsor — also congratulated the honorees for their “highly deserved awards.”
“Their outstanding research contributions have propelled advances in breast cancer science and medicine and have helped to save countless lives from breast cancer,” Foti said in the release.