Finding Selective Poisons in Plants to Target Breast Cancer

Join leading cancer researcher Susan Mooberry as she discusses the quest for discovering new treatments for breast cancer. Many drugs used for the treatment of cancer are derived from or modeled after compounds found in nature. Natural products continue to provide effective new leads for many types of cancer including breast cancer. The program will focus on therapies for the treatment of challenging cancers, including triple negative breast cancers.

As Professor Emeritus of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Dr. Mooberry previously held the position of The Greehey Distinguished Chair in Molecular Therapeutics. She has published over 145 peer reviewed articles, reviews and book chapters and holds eleven patents on new classes of drug leads. Dr. Mooberry has served on scientific review panels for national and international organizations and as Principal Investigator of NIH and industry grants. She is past president of the American Society for Pharmacognosy and was elected as a Fellow of that society in 2019 and in 2022 was honored by the American Society of Pharmacology as the first recipient of the Susan Band Horwitz lecture.