UCLA Scientific Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer Research – Celebrating 20 Years of the Hirshberg Foundation Seed Grant Program
October 10, 2025
12:00pm – 5:00pm
Pancreas Cancer: Now and the Era of Biomarker Directed Therapy
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD
Winthrop Rockefeller Endowed Chair, Medical Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering; and Co-Director, Medical Initiatives, David M. Rubenstein Center
for Pancreatic Cancer
The Role and Mechanism of Diabetes in Promoting Pancreatic Cancer
Stephen Pandol, MD
Professor, Medicine; and Director, Basic & Translational
Pancreas Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Targeting Adenosine Signaling to Enhance Immunotherapy
in Pancreatic Cancer
Timothy Donahue, MD
Professor, Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Clonal Heterogeneity in Human Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
and Its Impact on Tumor Progression
Diane Simeone, MD
Director, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego
Logic Gated CAR-T Therapies in Pancreatic Cancer: New Approaches
for Screening and Treating Patients
Randy Hecht, MD
Professor, Clinical Medicine; and Director, Gastrointestinal Oncology
Program, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Oncogenic KRAS-driven Regulation of the Tumor Microenvironment
Marina Pasca Di Magliano, PhD
Associate Professor, General Surgery,
University of Michigan Medical School
Uncovering Metabolic Drivers of Tumor Progression and Metastasis
Rushika Perera, PhD
Professor, Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco – and –
Obesity and Stress in Pancreatic Cancer
Guido Eibl, MD
Professor in Residence, Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
RSVP is Required by September 30 – https://support.pancreatic.org/site/SPageServer/?pagename=scientific_symposium_register
Contact – Julie Hirschberg – julie@pancreatic.org
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