Breast cancer specialist to receive lecture award
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Jeffrey M. Rosen, PhD, will receive the William L. McGuire Memorial Lecture Award at this year’s San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, scheduled for Dec. 6-10.
The award will recognize Rosen for his contributions to preclinical and translational breast cancer research, as well as his commitment to transdisciplinary collaboration and mentoring of early-career scientists.
“I am humbled to receive the McGuire Award,” Rosen said in a press release. “I first met Bill McGuire over 50 years ago at a Hormone Action Gordon Research Conference, and I was fortunate to have many scientific interactions with him during his lifetime.
“Bill provided both the inspiration and encouragement for my career in breast cancer research,” Rosen added. “I hope that the development and utilization of breast cancer preclinical models will be important in personalizing and modifying treatment options, particularly in terms of combining therapies and employing immunotherapy in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.”
Rosen is distinguished service professor of molecular and cellular biology and co-leader of the breast cancer program at Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine.
He has made several key contributions to the fields of mammary gland biology and endocrinology. He was involved in early studies that elucidated the mechanisms of interferon action, which helped lead to the discovery of the JAK/STAT pathway.
He also has mentored more than 100 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty members.
Rosen will present a lecture at SABCS titled “Leveraging preclinical models for translational breast cancer research.”
“Dr. Rosen’s contributions to breast cancer discovery and translational research have been an example to many of us in this field. He is an outstanding recipient of the McGuire Award,” Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, FAACR, director of Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, associate dean of oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and co-director of SABCS, said in the release.
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