UCLA Scientific Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer Research:
Celebrating 20 years of the Hirshberg Foundation Seed Grant Program
Featuring The Vay Liang Go Endowed Lectureship
Date: Friday, October 10, 2025
Location: UCLA Faculty Club, 480 Charles E. Young Drive East. Los Angeles, CA 90095
Time: 12:00 pm - 5 pm
RSVP by September 30, 2025
Questions: Email Julie Hirschberg at julie@pancreatic.org.
| Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 12:00 PM |
Check-in & Lunch
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| 12:10 PM |
Opening remarks
Miklos Sahin-Toth, Agi Hirshberg, Lisa Manheim, Timothy Donahue, Joe Hines
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| 12:25 PM |
Introduction to the Vay Liang Go Endowed Lectureship
Joe Hines |
| 12:30 PM |
Vay Liang Go Endowed Lectureship
Eileen O’Reilly Pancreas cancer: Now and the era of biomarker directed therapy
|
| 1:30 PM |
Stephen Pandol
The role and mechanism of diabetes in promoting pancreatic cancer
|
| 1:50 PM |
Timothy Donahue
Targeting adenosine signaling to enhance immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer
|
| 2:10 PM |
Diane Simeonee
Clonal heterogeneity in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and its impact on tumor progression
|
| 2:30 PM |
Break
|
| 2:50 PM |
Randy Hecht
Logic gated CAR-T therapies in pancreas cancer: New approaches for screening and treating patients
|
| 3:10 PM |
Marina Pasca Di Magliano
Oncogenic KRAS -driven regulation of the tumor microenvironment
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| 3:30 PM |
Rushika Perera
Uncovering metabolic drivers of tumor progression and metastasis
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| 3:50 PM |
Guido Eibl
Obesity and stress in pancreatic cancer development
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| 4:10 PM |
Anna Gukovskaya
Autophagy in pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
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| 4:30 PM |
Break
|
| 4:50 PM |
Bomi Lee
Decoding immune signals linking pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer
|
| 5:10 PM |
Mark Girgis
The FAPi story: From seed grant to clinical trial
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| 5:30 PM |
Slavica Tudzarova-Trajkovska
Immunometabolic crosstalk in Type‐3c diabetes reshapes pancreatic cancer into a GPR‐81driven
lipogenic subtype
|
| 5:50 PM |
Liying Zhang
Beyond tissue: The evolving role of liquid biopsy in pancreatic oncology
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| 6:10 PM |
Closing remarks
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