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Reveal Your #InvisibleGenes
The Basser Center is raising awareness about hereditary cancer through our #INVISIBLEGENES social media campaign and we need your help! The traits we inherit from our family define and connect us in countless ways. Sometimes these traits are obvious, like curly hair or dimples. But sometimes what we inherit remains hidden, like BRCA gene mutations which can increase your risk for developing certain type of cancers.
Basser Scientific Symposium 2025
Scientific Symposium Day 1 Agenda
Basser Summer Scholars Internship Program
This internship was created to expand the pipeline of candidates with experientially diverse backgrounds pursuing a career in genetic counseling, clinical genetics, and basic science.
External Research Grant Program
The Basser Center External Research Grant Program focuses on projects that have the potential to advance the care of individuals living with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations.
Scientific Symposium Day 2 Agenda
Scientific Symposium 2025 Registration
Young Leadership Council Profile: Kevin Kucharski
In this month’s profile, get to know Basser Young Leadership Council member Kevin Kucharski, a BRCA2 mutation carrier and medical student.
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2025 Scientific Symposium Abstract Submissions
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Internal Research Grant Program
The Basser Center Internal Research Grant Program for Penn Investigators focuses on projects that have the potential to advance the care of individuals living with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations.
Staying Positive After Testing Positive
Hilary shares how her journey as a BRCA2 mutation carrier has profoundly shaped her life and her decision to undergo preventative surgery.
#PhiladelphiaPhil Celebrates 100 Years with the Eagles & Other Exciting News
Phil Basser, patriarch of the Basser family, has recently made it into the news for his legendary love of the Philadelphia Eagles.
New PARP Inhibitor Trial for BRCA1/2 and PALB2-Related Pancreatic Cancer
A phase II clinical trial that began in August of 2017, “A Phase 2, Open Label Study of Rucaparib in Patients With Advanced Pancreatic Cancer and a Known Deleterious Germline or Somatic BRCA or PALB2 Mutation,” is enrolling patients at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Basser Global Prize
Knowledge is Power: Understanding and Managing BRCA-Related Cancer
On January 25, the Basser Center for BRCA, UJA-Federation of New York, and the 92nd Street Y teamed up in New York City to present a panel on BRCA mutations and the latest lifesaving information surrounding hereditary cancers.
Young Leadership Council Profile: Shannon Hennessy Pulaski
Learn more about Basser Young Leadership Council member Shannon Hennessy Pulaski, a wife, mother, writer, and BRCA carrier, in this profile.
The BRCA Founder Outreach Study (BFOR) Launches in Four Cities
The Basser Center's internationally recognized experts in cancer genetics, Susan Domchek, MD, and Katherine Nathanson, MD, are working in collaboration with leading experts in the fields of cancer research and genetics in New York, Los Angeles, and Boston to launch the pilot phase of a new, independent research initiative: the BRCA Founder Outreach (BFOR) Study.