Sessions in which Alejandro Álvarez Quilón participates
Monday 12 June, 2023
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:45 AM
8:45 AM -
9:15 AM |
30 minutes
The focus of precision oncology over the last 25 years has been on targeting druggable oncogenes with gain-of-function genetic alterations (i.e., BCR-ABL and EGFR). However, most solid tumors do not carry these types of mutations, but instead alterations in undruggable oncogenes or loss-of-function mutations in tumor suppressors. Synthetic lethality is a concept in which the simultaneous targeting of two pathways results in cell death, whereas the targeting of either pathway alone does not...