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Round Table session 1: Women’s Life Transitions: Mechanisms, Risks, and Health Trajectories | Hormonal, Metabolic, and Cancer Dynamics Across Women’s Life Transitions

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Auditorium 1 - ERNESTO ROMA
Thursday, June 4, 2026
16:00 - 16:50
Auditorium 1 - ERNESTO ROMA

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This session will address hormonal regulation and metabolic adaptations across key stages of women’s lives, and their implications for disease risk, including cancer.


Speaker

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Leonide Bonfrate
Associate Professor In Internal Medicine
San Raffaele Roma University

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Guadalupe Cabral
Principal Investigator
Nova Medical School

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Guadalupe Cabral holds a PhD in Biotechnology from Instituto Superior Técnico and has been based at NOVA Medical School since 2007, where she progressively developed her research career from postdoctoral researcher to Group Leader of the Translational Tumor Immunology Laboratory. She is also an Invited Assistant Professor at the same institution. Her research focuses on breast cancer immunobiology, with particular emphasis on the roles of neutrophils in cancer progression and therapy response, aiming to identify predictive biomarkers and novel therapeutic immune targets to improve breast cancer management and advance precision oncology. She has secured competitive funding to support her research, including grants from the CaixaImpulse, Gilead GÉNESE, and Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro programs. She actively collaborates with clinicians and pursues translational and innovation-driven research initiatives to accelerate the clinical impact of her work.
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Susann Weihrauch-Blüher
University Medicine Halle/S.

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Manuel Tena-Sempere
Full Professor
University Of Cordoba

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Chair

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Rita Machado de Oliveira
Nova Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal

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Paula Videira
Full Professor
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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