Day 2 Program

Rising Stars Award Lectures

Day 2: December 9, 2026

12:00 PM–1:00 PM CST

Hemisfair 3

Session Details

Moderator

Carlos L Arteaga, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

AL1-1

Neuronal state plasticity defines opposing neural functions in breast cancer metastasis

Veena Padmanaban, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

AL1-2

Treatment-Matched Integration of Patient-Derived Xenografts and Clinical Cohorts Enables Prediction of Differential Chemotherapy Response in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Jonathan T. Lei, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

AL1-3

Impact of environmental hazard burden, somatic genomic profiles, and race on outcomes in metastatic breast cancer

Emily L Podany, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO