Mark Awad

Company: Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology

Job title: Medical Oncologist

Seminars:

How to Address Resistance Mechanisms to Increase Response Rates & Durability to Prevent Cancer Recurrence 9:01 am

RAS. Therefore, RAS-targeted drugs apply a strong selective force on cancer, leading to the evolution of resistance. Hence, understanding the mechanisms of resistance, as well as, pre-empting new ones for different RAS therapies, and subsequently, developing strategies to counter them, is vital achieve disease free survival of patients. This workshop will: Review existing literature to…Read more

day: Workshop D

Assessing Biomarkers & Genomic Data to Inform Patient Selection & Stratification in Clinical Trials 12:01 pm

As with any trial, understanding patient profiles to create classification and stratification criteria is extremely important for successful clinical design. Even more so, for RAS, pre-empting patient reactions to drugs, possible resistance mechanisms, and then accurately assessing the drug’s activity in each patient, is essential. Biomarkers and genomic data are some of the most reliable…Read more

day: Workshop E