May 12-13, 2026

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker and 2025 Basser Global Prize recipient Ephrat Levy-Lahad, MD, of Shaare Zedek Medical Center and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Basser Center also awarded Alan D. D'Andrea, MD, FAACR, of  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, with the 2026 BRCA Impact Award. View the conference agenda. 

April 22-23, 2025

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker and 2024 Basser Global Prize recipient Patrick Sung, DPhil of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. View the conference agenda. View Dr. Sung's prize presentation.

May 13-14, 2024

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize awardee Kenneth Offit, MD, MPH from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). View the conference agenda. View Dr. Offit's prize presentation.

May 8-9, 2023

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize awardee Fergus J. Couch, PhD, from Mayo Clinic. View the conference agenda. View Dr. Couch's prize presentation. 

May 10-11, 2022

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize awardee Andre Nussenzweig, PhD, from the National Cancer Institute. View the conference agenda and the prize presentation.

May 11-12, 2021

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize awardee Bella Kaufman, MD, of Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer, Israel. View the conference agenda and prize presentation.

The Basser Scientific Symposium is not typically archived and shared publicly because many talks contain as yet unpublished research, but for the 2021 virtual symposium, the following scientists have allowed us to share their presentations:

• Bryson Katona, MD, PhD -- "Managing variable cancer penetrance in CDH1 carriers - Just follow your gut?"
• Kathleen Moore, MD, MS -- "Changing paradigms for the treatment of ovarian cancer"
• Kim Reiss Binder, MD -- "Better life on the horizon: Progress for patients with DNA damage repair deficient pancreatic cancer"
• Ralph Scully, MBBS, PhD -- "Interactions between FANCM and BRCA1 at stalled replication forks"

September 9, 2020

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize awardees Douglas Easton, PhD, and Antonis Antoniou, PhD, from the University of Cambridge. View the conference agenda and prize presentation.

May 7-8, 2019

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize awardee Maria Jasin, PhD, from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. View the Facebook album, conference agenda, and prize presentation.

May 22-23, 2018

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize awardee Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, MBSS, PhD from the University of Cambridge. View the Facebook album, conference agenda, and prize presentation.

May 4-5, 2017

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker, Basser Global Prize awardee, and cancer geneticist Steven Narod, MD, FRCPC, PhD (hon), FRSC, Director of the Familial Breast Cancer Research Unit and a senior scientist at the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. View the Facebook album. 

May 24-25, 2016

This Scientific Symposium featured keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize winner David Livingston, MD from Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. View the Facebook album.

May 11-12, 2015

This Scientific Symposium's featured keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize winner was human genetics expert Mary-Claire King, PhD, American Cancer Society Research Professor of Genetics and Medicine at the University of Washington. Dr. King has been a pioneer in the development of experimental and bioinformatics genomics tools to study common, complex human diseases and health conditions. View the Facebook album.

May 6-7, 2014

This Scientific Symposium's featured keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize winner was cancer biology and genetics expert Professor Alan Ashworth, FRS, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Cancer Research in London and leader of the Gene Function team in the ICR’s Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre. Ashworth has been a pioneer in efforts to develop therapies to target cancer cells that contain BRCA1/2 mutations. View the Facebook album.

April 16, 2013

The inaugural Basser Scientific Symposium featured Penn faculty, such as Basser’s Executive Director, Susan Domchek, MD; Associate Professor of the Perelman School of Medicine, Roger Greenberg, MD, PhD; Director of the Cellular Therapy Tissue Facility of the Abramson Cancer Center, Daniel Powell, PhD; and more. Guest speakers included Jorge Reis-Filho, MD, PhD, a surgical pathologist from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Michael Goggins, MD, professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University, and Mark Robson, MD, Clinic Director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Clinical Genetics Service.