Hereditary Cancer Mutation and Drug Development

NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds Dr. Pamela Munster is Co-Director of the Center for BRCA Research, a BRCA-focused clinical and research program at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She received her medical degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland; completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Indiana University Medical Center then moved to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York for her oncology and hematology fellowship. Dr. Munster served at Memorial Sloan Kettering as a faculty member in the breast cancer program before joining the Division of Breast Oncology and Experimental Therapeutics Program at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida. Dr. Munster led the group as the Scientific Director of Breast Research and Co-Chair of the Phase I Program at Moffitt for six years prior to joining UCSF. Currently, Dr. Munster is Professor in Residence at UCSF where she is also the Director of Early Phase Clinical Trials Program at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Co-Program Leader of Developmental Therapeutics. Dr. Munster ’ s basic laboratory research interests are in the area of developing novel targeted therapies for the treatment of treatment-resistant cancer and their integration into current treatment strategies. Dr. Munster ’ s research interests involve basic research studies on epigenetic modification of DNA repair and ...
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