This Broad Discovery Series event is being held in collaboration with the Whitehead Institute’s Seminar Series for High School Teachers. 

This event will be held in-person only. The event, designed primarily for high school educators, will have two parts: A talk in the Broad Institute auditorium followed by a tour of the Broad Discovery Center. 

Registration is free, but required for the event. 

 

The Genetic Basis for Cancer Therapeutics
Cancer is driven by genetic changes that cause malignant cells to grow aggressively and spread throughout the body. A dynamic disease, cancer evolves in response to treatment, leading to resistance. The genetic changes that allow cancers to grow and thrive can also create unique vulnerabilities, which researchers hope to exploit for new, more effective treatments.

In this talk, Bill Sellers, director of the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, will share how researchers at the Broad and its partner institutions are thinking about these challenges of treating cancer and how they are working to develop more effective and curative treatments. 
 

Venue
Broad Institute
415 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142