Speaker Profile
M.D., Assistant Member at the Department of Thoracic Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Ctr.
Biography
Dr. Bruna Pellini is an Assistant Member at the Department of Thoracic Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor at Morsani College of Medicine at University of South Florida. She received her medical degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and completed her residency at University of Central Florida, where she was inducted into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 2016. Dr. Pellini completed her medical oncology fellowship at Washington University, St. Louis, where she studied ctDNA for minimal residual disease detection across different solid tumors. Her research interest lies in the development of clinical trials with novel targeted therapies for nonsmall cell lung cancer, and to study liquid biopsies to monitor treatment response and detect minimal residual disease. Dr. Pellini is the coChair for the NIH Liquid Biopsies Scientific Interest Group and a member of the translational medicine committee at SWOG Lung.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2024 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Laura J. van 't Veer, UCSF
- PMWC 2024 Award Ceremony
Pioneer Honoree: David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins
Luminary Honorees: Helmy Eltoukhy & AmirAli Talasaz, Guardant Health - Utilities of Liquid Biopsy in Biomarker Testing
- Laura Vent Veer, UCSF - Status Quo of Clinical Liquid Biopsy
Chair: Helmy Eltoukhy, Guardant Health
- Sadakatsu Ikeda, Tokyo Medical University
- Heather Parsons, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Bruna Pellini, Moffitt Cancer Center
- Sanjay Popat, The Royal Marsden - Liquid Biopsy for Health Monitoring and Disease Prevention (PANEL)
Chair: Anne-Renee Hartman, Adela Bio
- AmirAli Talasaz, Guardant Health
- Heather Parsons, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Mary Pat Lancelotta, Adaptive Bio - Liquid Biopsy in Early Cancer Detection (PANEL)
Chair: Tom Beer, Exact Sciences
- Wendy Rubinstein, Cancer Screening Research Network (CSRN) - Keynote: Pioneering Liquid Nucleic acids Tumor Fragments in Health and Diseases
- David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins - New Approaches in Liquid Biopsy (PANEL)
Chair: Victor Velculescu, Johns Hopkins
- David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins
- Dan Laudau, NY Genome Center
- Daniel De Carvalho, University of Toronto - Global Implications: A scalable Liquid Biopsy for HPV-related Cervical Cancer (PANEL)
Chair: Debra Fraser-Howze, D. Fraser Associates
- Belinda Nedjai, Wolfson Institute of Population Health
- Elisabeth Adams, Aquarius Population Health Limited - PMWC Showcase
- Sandrine Miller-Montgomery, Micronoma
