BRECT - Breast Cancer Theme Center
The Breast Cancer Theme Center (BRECT) provides a platform for interactions and collaborations in breast cancer research at Karolinska Institutet. BRECT is open for all researchers at KI within the breast cancer field.
We aim to increase our understanding of critical steps in breast cancer development and therapy. The research span from basic studies using cell lines, animal models and patient biopsies, to prospective clinical studies and clinical trials, with the ultimate goal to improve breast cancer therapy and disease outcome.
To provide education and networking in breast cancer research, BRECT regularly organizes retreats, mini-symposia and seminars with a mix of invited internationally leading researchers and presentations from researchers at KI.
Upcoming meetings
BRECT Spring Meeting (April 27, 2026 in SciLifeLab). Please contact helen.eriksson@ki.se to register for the seminar.
Stockholm Breast Cancer Summit (November 16-17, 2026 in Lidingö). Save the date! Further information will be released at a later stage.
BRECT Spring Meeting 2026
Lunch
Opening
BRECT Director, Professor Johan Hartman
Characterization of tumor microenvironment in patients with different ER status
Tianyi Li (Johan Hartman)
AI for breast radiology - beyond screening
Apostolia Tsirikoglou & José Luis Diaz (Fredrik Strand)
Cell cycle informed and microenvironment aware genomics in breast cancer
Nick Tobin
Matrix rigidity control of breast cancer cell malignancy
Staffan Strömblad
Coffee break
The POWER trial - personalised tamoxifen dosage in adjuvant breast cancer therapy
Marike Gabrielson
CDKPredX: From translational analysis to biomarker discovery in PREDIX-LumB trial
Michail Sarafidis (Theodoros Foukakis)
Decoding rules for selective translation in cancer
Arash Darzian (Ola Larsson)
How do postoperative infections after breast cancer surgery affect oncological outcomes?
Irma Fredriksson