DCB News, Events, and Meetings
News
USAJOBS Announcement - NIH Health Scientist Administrator (01/18/2022 - 01/27/2022: Duties of an NIH Health Scientist Administrator (Program Officer) include advising grant applicants and grantees, attending scientific review meetings, contributing to funding recommendations, monitoring awarded grants, fostering specific science through initiatives and meetings, engaging the public/scientific communities, and maintaining their own area of scientific expertise.
DCB Branches with interest in hiring a Health Scientist Administrator (Program Officer) include the Cancer Cell Biology Branch, the Cancer Immunology, Hematology, and Immunology Branch, and the DNA and Chromosome Aberrations Branch. Please contact the Branch Chiefs for additional information.
A recent Cancer Currents Blog features DCB-funded research and includes a perspective from Lillian Kuo, a Program Director in DCB: Tumors May Shed Protein to Create Barriers that Block Immune Cells
Upcoming Meetings and Events
January 24-28, 2022
Ideas Lab: Biologically Informed Models of Combination Therapies
The Ideas Lab will bring together cancer researchers, biomedical engineers, and computational modelers to develop innovative approaches that enable biologically-informed combination therapies for cancer.
February 14, 2022
Application Deadline: DCB Summer Undergraduate Research Program
This program is open to rising junior and senior undergraduates with limited (0-1 years) research experience who are interested in solving complex problems in cancer biology.
March 23-25, 2022
NCI SeroNet Investigators Meeting
This meeting will bring together members of SeroNet to share cutting edge research into understanding the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or vaccines, as well as to provide an opportunity to foster new ideas and collaborations across SeroNet.
Reports, Summaries, and Videos from Past Events
| Workshop | Dates | Reports/Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Etiology of Early Onset Colorectal Cancer | 09/24/2020 – 09/25/2020 | Future Medicine: Early-onset colorectal cancer research: gaps and opportunities |
| 2020 Physical Sciences - Oncology Network (PS-ON) | 09/21/2020 - 09/23/2020 | YouTube videos: Celebrating a Decade of PS-ON Research and PS-ON Patient Advocacy |
| DataViz + Cancer MicroLabs | 08/31/2020 - 09/09/2020 |
YouTube videos: MicroLab 1, MicroLab 2, MicroLab 3, MicroLab 4 and MicroLab 5 |
| Immuno-Oncology Models | 07/09/2020 - 07/10/2020 | Cancer Cell: Developing and validating model systems for immuno-oncology |
| Geroscience Summit | 10/04/2019 – 10/06/2019 | NIH Videocast: Day 1 and Day 2 |
| Deconstructing Tumor Heterogeneity | 09/19/2019 – 09/20/2019 | Oncotarget: Deconstructing tumor heterogeneity: the stromal perspective |
| Innovation Lab: Systems Biology for the Cancer Microbiome | 04/29/2019 – 05/03/2019 | Trends in Cancer: The cancer microbiome: distinguishing direct and indirect effects requires a systemic view |
| Gynecology and Women's Health: Benign Conditions and Cancer | 04/25/2019 – 04/26/2019 | American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Report of the National Cancer Institute and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development–sponsored workshop: gynecology and women’s health–benign conditions and cancer |
| Liver Fibrosis to Cancer | 04/22/2019 – 04/23/2019 | NIH Record: NCI workshop explores liver cancer, which is on rise |
| Lineage Plasticity and AR-independent Prostate Cancer | 12/06/2018 – 12/07/2018 | Clinical Cancer Research: The role of lineage plasticity in prostate cancer therapy resistance |
| Evolutionary Dynamics in Cancer | 08/09/2018 – 08/10/2018 | Nature Genetics: Characterizing the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of cancer |
| Progesterone and Breast Cancer | 06/21/2018 – 06/22/2018 | Hormones and Cancer: Progesterone and breast cancer: an NCI workshop report |