Agenda

Conference Day 1 - Thursday, February 19th, 2026


9:00 - 11:00 AM 

 

I2I Pitch Competition at the Feinstein’s Hotel Nikko - (Reservation Required) 

Advocates: 
Susie Brain, UCSF Breast Science Advocacy Core
Heather Salazar, Pink Ribbon Good

11:00 - 11: 40 AM

Re-Imagine Toxicity and Reducing Drug Manufacturing costs: A call to action to VCs

  • Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, University of California, San Francisco Breast Care Center 
  • James Fraser, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences 
  • Dan Hartman, MD, The Gates Foundation 
  • Andrea Olariu, Medicines 360 

Advocate: 
Vivian Lee, UCSF Breast Science Advocacy Core

11:40 - 11:50 AM

I2I Closing Remarks (Results Announced Saturday) 

12:00 - 1:30 PM

Luncheon (Reservation Required)  

2:00 - 2:05 PM

 

 

Conference Opening - Welcome: Where we have been, what we know, what we don't, and opportunities for intervention: Accelerating learning in prevention, our approach to hormonal interventions 

  • Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, University of California, San Francisco Breast Care Center 

  • Douglas Yee, MD, University of Minnesota 

  • Carol Fabian, MD, The University of Kansas Medical Center 

  • Judy Garber, MD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute 

  • Diane Heditsian, UCSF Breast Science Advocacy Core 

2:05 - 2:45 PM

Keynote: A Big Vision for Primary and Secondary Prevention

Moderator: Laura Esserman, MD, MBA 

Moving Imaging Forward as an Early Endpoint
Fiona Gilbert, MD, University of Cambridge 

Designing New Targeted, Less Toxic Agents 
James Fraser, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

What will it take to energize pharmaceuticals to get behind affordable prevention agents?  
Dan Hartman, MD, The Gates Foundation 

Trials that Transform Our Approach to Screening and Prevention

2:45 - 4:00 PM

Session 1: Personalized Screening and Other Risk Assessment Trials (WISDOM, MyPeBS)

Co-Chairs: 
Laura Esserman, MD, MBA, University of California, San Francisco 
Suzette Delaloge, MD, MSc, Gustave Roussy
Advocate: 
Dolores Moorehead, Women's Cancer Resource Center

4:05 - 5:20 PM

Session 2: Overcoming Resistance from the Ground Up: What are the Drivers and How Can They Inform Our Prevention Approach?

Co-Chairs: 

 Laura van ‘t Veer, PhD, University of California, San Francisco 

Lajos Pusztai, MD, DPhil, Yale University 

 

Advocate: 

Valerie Fraser, SWOG Cancer Research Network Patient Advocates Committee

5:25 - 5:55 PM

Ideas to Implementation Awards

6:00 - 7:30 

Poster Session 1 -- Appetizers


Conference Day 2 - Friday, February 20th, 2026

Scalable Early Endpoints to Accelerate the Learning Cycle

8:00 - 9:15 AM

Session 3: Early Imaging Endpoints to Accelerate the Learning Cycle (Rise Assessment and Response) 

Co-Chairs: 
Nola Hylton, PhD, University of California, San Francisco 
Elissa Price, MD, University of California, San Francisco 

Advocate: 
Carolyn Clark Beetle, UCSF Breast Science Advocacy Core

9:20 - 10:45 AM

Session 4: Risk Biomarkers as Indicators of Response in Prevention and Treatment Trials: One Size Doesn't Fit All

Co-Chairs: 
Carol Fabian, MD, The University of Kansas Medical Center 
Jo Chien, MD, University of California, San Francisco 

Advocate: 
Amy Delson, UCSF Breast Science Advocacy Core

Invited Speakers:  
Mammo AI 
Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, Washington University 

Circulating miRNA in prevention 
Andrew Godwin, PhD, The University of Kansas Medical Center (tentative) 

 

10:50 - 12:05 AM

Session 5: Impact from Treatment to Prevention: Translational Prevention Trials

Co-Chairs:
Seema Khan, MD, Northwestern University 
Andrea De Censi, MD, Champalimaud Foundation 

Advocate: 
Jan Tomlinson, UCSF Breast Science Advocacy Core

Invited Speakers: 

Metformin and overnight fasting

Andrea De Censi or Matteo Lambertini 

 

A Pilot Prevention Study of the Effects of the Anti-progestin Ulipristal Acetate (UA) on Surrogate Markers of Breast Cancer Risk  

Sacha Howell, PhD, The University of Manchester 

 

TOLERANT Study Results 

Davide Serrano, European Institute of Oncology 

12:05 - 12:10 PM

Persistence in Prevention Award

12:10 - 12:25 PM

I2I 2024 Winner Talk: “A potential for both treatment-resistant tumors and prevention? Control of the estrogenic stimulation of the breast via the ubiquitous androgen receptor pathway” 

Stephen Birrell, MD, PhD, FRACS, Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories 

Wayne Tilley, PhD, Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories 

12:25 - 1:40 PM

Poster Session 2 (Lunch Included)

 

1:45 - 3:00 PM

Session 6: The Landscape of Reproductive Healthcare in the United States

Co-Chairs: 
Lynn Yee, MD, MPH, Northwestern University 
Madeline Perry, MD, University of Pennsylvania 
Dan Grossman, MD, University of California, San Francisco 

Advocate: 
Jessica Pinckney Gil, Access Reproductive Justice 

Invited Speakers

The CARLA Program 

Jonah Fleisher, MD, MPH, FACOG, University of Illinois 

 

Post-Dobbs Abortion Restrictions

Emma Trawick, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

 

WeCount

Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH, University of California, San Francisco 

 

3:05 - 4:35 PM

Session 7:  Rethinking Contraceptives: Current Risk for Breast Cancer and Potential Future Combinations. Can Treatment of Benign Uterine Conditions Provide a Path for Breast Cancer Prevention? 

Co-Chairs: 

Diana Blithe, PhD, The National Institutes of Health  

Carolyn Westhoff, MD, MSc, Columbia University 

Sandra M Laveaux, MD, MPH, University of Chicago 

BREAK


4:50 - 5:05 PM

I2I 2024 Winner Talk: "Novel breast cancer prevention strategies utilizing epigenetic markers and antiprogestins"

Martin Widschwendter, MD, University College London

5:10 - 6:25 PM

Session 8: Tissue and imaging combinations that elucidate a new way to think about treatment and prevention: Postpartum Breast Cancer

Co-Chairs: 
Virginia Borges, MD, University of Colorado 
Matteo Lambertini, MD, PhD, University of Genova 

Advocate: 
Lynda Weatherby, Our MBC Life Podcast

Invited Speakers 
Cristina Saura, MD, PhD, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital

6:30 - 8:30 PM

Conference Dinner that Promotes Conversation & Discussion: A Meeting of the Minds

Conference Day 3 - Saturday, February 21st, 2026


7:30 - 8:45 AM

Poster Session 3

Modifiable Risk Factors

8:45 - 10:00 AM

Session 9: Innovative Strategies for Community Engaged Research to Accelerate Progress in Women's Health

Co-Chairs: 
Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, University of Chicago 
Ricki Fairley, TOUCH, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance 
Damé Idossa, MD, Mayo Clinic 

Advocate: 
Ricki Fairley, TOUCH, The Black Breast Cancer Alliance 

10:05 - 11:20 AM

Session 10: Environment, the Exposome, and Inflammation as a Mediator of Breast Cancer Risk

Co-Chairs: 
Kimberly Badal, PhD, University of California, San Francisco 
Peggy Reynolds, PhD, MPH, MA, University of California, San Francisco 

Advocate: 
Nancy Buermeyer, Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
 

Invited Speakers 

Alexandra White, PhD, MSPH, National Institute of Health 

Mary Beth Terry, PhD, Columbia University 

11:25 - 12:40 PM

Session 11: Lifestyle-based Prevention Strategies

Co-Chairs: 

Jennifer Ligibel, MD, Harvard University 

Katrine Whiteson, PhD, University of California, Irvine 

 

Advocate:

Elizabeth Watson, UCSF Breast Health Clinic Volunteer

 

Invited Speakers: 

Leigh A. Frame, PhD, MSH, The George Washington University 

Kathryn H. Schmitz, PhD, MPH, University of Pittsburgh 

12:45 - 1:00 PM

I2I 2024 Winner Talk: “Innovative Fitness Solutions for Health Equity in Cancer Care”

Jennifer Johnson, JennJ Health

1:00 - 2:15 PM 

Lunch

2:15 - 3:30 PM

 

Session 12: Treating Obesity / Obesity in the Context of the Larger Hormonal Picture 

Co-Chairs: 
Stephen Hursting, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
Neil Iyengar, MD, Emory University 

Advocate: 
Julia Laursen, For the Four 

Invited Speakers:  
Microbiome in Obesity 
Katherine Cook, PhD, Wake Forest University 

GLP-1 during endocrine therapy 
Sherry Shen, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

3:35 - 3:50 PM

I2I 2024 Winner Talk: “Biomarker of tirzepatide effectiveness for cancer”

Erin Giles, PhD, University of Michigan

BREAK


4:05 - 5:20 PM

Session 13:  Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Alternatives for High-risk Women Without Cancer

Co-Chairs: 

Lisa Larkin, MD, FACP, MSCP, Ms. Medicine 

Erin Duralde, MD, MPH, MSCP, One Medical 

 

Advocate:

Tracey Heather, Patient Engagement Lead, Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative 

 

5:20 - 5:30 PM

Special Talk: IVF and Long-Term Outcomes

Speaker:
 Mitchell Rosen, MD, University of California, San Francisco 

5:30 - 6:50 PM

Session 14: Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Alternatives for Women with Cancer

Co-Chairs: 

Hope Rugo, MD, City of Hope 

Abigail Liberty, MD, MSPH, Oregon Health & Science University 

 

Advocate: 
Jane Mortimer, UCSF Breast Science Advocacy Core 

6:50 - 6:55 PM

Closing Remarks