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Alejandro Álvarez Quilón

Senior Scientist II
Repare Therapeutics
Participates in 1 Session

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...