Session 1: Fusion Driven Sarcomas

Moderator(s)

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  Priya Chudasama, PhD

  Research Group Leader
  German Cancer Research Center
  Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
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  Torsten Nielsen, MD, PhD

  Professor of Pathology
  Department of Pathology, VGH
  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Presentations:

• 8:05 AM – 9:50 AM PST

  Keynote: We All Need Friends: How Co-Conspirators of EWS::FLI1 Determine Cell State
  

  Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth R. Lawlor, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Seattle Children's Research Institute
• 8:05 AM – 9:50 AM PST

  NOVEL PAX3::MAML3 FUSION IDENTIFIED IN ALVEOLAR RHABDOMYOSARCOMA: USING DNA METHYLATION TO EXPANDE THE GENETIC SPECTRUM OF "FUSION POSITIVE" CASES
  

  Author: Karen J. Fritchie, MD – Cleveland Clinic

  Co-Author: Josephine K. Dermawan, MD, PhD – Cleveland Clinic

  Co-Author: John M. Gross, md – Johns hopkins

  Co-Author: Ezra Baraban, md – Johns hopkins

  Co-Author: Christine A. Pratilas, MD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  Co-Author: Matteo Trucco, MD – Cleveland Clinic

  Co-Author: wenyue sun, phD – nih

  Co-Author: Frederic G. Barr, MD PhD – National Cancer Institute

  Co-Author: Felipe D'Almeida Costa, MD (he/him/his) – A.C.Camargo Cancer Center

  Co-Author: Faizan Malik, md – st judes
• 8:05 AM – 9:50 AM PST

  DEVELOPING ARMS METASTATIC MODELS TO RECAPITULATE THE TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENTS OF THE AXILLA/LYMPH NODE AND LUNGS
  

  Author: Anna Mandel, MSc (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto

  Co-Author: Jennifer Dorsey, PhD – Lunenefeld Tanenbaum

  Co-Author: Claire Wunker, MD, MSc – University of Toronto

  Co-Author: Yael Babichev, PhD – Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

  Co-Author: Maryam Siddiqui, MSc – Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

  Co-Author: Joshua O. Nash, BSc.H – The Hospital for Sick Children

  Co-Author: Brendan C. Dickson, MSc, MD, FCAP, FRCPC – Mount Sinai Hospital

  Co-Author: Elizabeth Demicco, MD, PhD – University Health Network

  Co-Author: Donna Senger, PhD – McGill University

  Co-Author: Adam Shlien, PhD, FCCMG – The Hospital for Sick Children

  Co-Author: Abha Gupta, MD, PhD – Hospital for Sick Children

  Co-Author: Rebecca Gladdy, MD, PhD – Lunenefeld Tanenbaum, Mount Sinai Hospital, University Health Network, University Of Toronto
• 8:05 AM – 9:50 AM PST

  INTEGRATED TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS OF CIC::DUX4 FUSION SARCOMAS REVEALS ELEVATED PROLIFERATION SIGNALING AND IMPLICATES DNA REPAIR GENE POLE
  

  Author: Nathan D. Seligson, PharmD (he/him/his) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: James L. Chen, MD – The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
• 8:05 AM – 9:50 AM PST

  DIRECTLY TARGETING CIC-DUX4 FUSION AND MYC ONCOPROTEINS FOR UNDIFFERENTIATED ROUND CELL SARCOMAS
  

  Presenter: Yi-Jia Li, PhD – Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope Cancer Center

  Author: Hua Yu, PhD – Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope Cancer Center

  Co-Author: Rui Huang, PhD – Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope

  Co-Author: Ross Okimoto, MD/PhD – University of California, San Francisco