"Context-Dependent Glucocorticoid Receptor (GR) Activity in Cancer: New Insights from GR-Specific Modulation"

Speaker:

Suzanne Conzen, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor and Division Chief of Hematology & Oncology
UT Southwestern Medical Center

About Suzanne Conzen:

Originally from New York City, Dr. Conzen holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she graduated magna cum laude. She earned her medical degree at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and completed internal medicine residency training at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. She then received advanced training in hematology and medical oncology through a clinical fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and in molecular oncology through a research fellowship at Dartmouth Medical School in Bedford, New Hampshire. She also holds a master’s degree from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Her lab examines the role of the glucocorticoid receptor in prostate, breast, and ovarian cancers. Dr. Conzen’s previous research at the University of Chicago led to the recognition of a role for glucocorticoid receptor signaling in breast cancer biology and, more recently, in cancer progression and therapy resistance in prostate and ovarian cancer.