Research Trials

In this ongoing series of answers to common questions received by the Basser Center, Executive Director Susan Domchek, MD, discusses recent advancements in treatment options for BRCA-related cancers, such as drugs like PARP inhibitors.

Basser Executive Director Susan Domchek, MD, discusses PARP inhibitors and ways in which they might be combined with other cancer treatments.

2016 Basser Global Prize winner, 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, discusses BRCA-related cancer research.

The Sixth Annual Basser Center Scientific Symposium on Tuesday, May 22, and Wednesday, May 23, featured Keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize awardee Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, MBSS, PhD, from the University of Cambridge.

Ronny Drapkin, MD, PhD, Basser’s Director of Gynecologic Cancer Research, and Penn’s Ovarian Cancer Research Center shares the latest on early detection research for ovarian cancer.

The BFOR study provides genetic testing for common BRCA mutations for women and men of Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jewish ancestry, age 25 or older, in four U.S. metropolitan areas.

The Seventh Annual Basser Center Scientific Symposium held on Tuesday, May 7, and Wednesday, May 8, featured Keynote speaker and Basser Global Prize awardee Maria Jasin, PhD, from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

The Basser Center's annual Breakthroughs & Discoveries panel brought together experts in the field of BRCA gene mutations: moderator Basser Executive Director Susan Domchek, MD, and panelists Steven Narod, MD, FRCPC, FRSC, Basser's Roger Greenberg, MD, PhD, Lewis Cantley, PhD, and Mark Robson, MD.

During the Sixth Annual Basser Center Scientific Symposium, the 2017 Basser Global Prize was presented to Ashok Venkitaraman, MBBS, PhD, the Ursula Zoellner Professor of Cancer Research and director of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge.

On Tuesday, May 7, 2019, the Basser Center presented a panel with internationally renowned BRCA experts on the latest in BRCA-related clinical research and patient care. This event was held during the Basser Scientific Symposium and is geared toward the general public.