DCB News, Events, and Meetings
News
A recent NCI Cancer Currents Blog features DCB-funded research: Study Suggests a Link between Stress and Cancer Coming Back.
Upcoming Meetings and Events
May 11, 2021 (3:30 pm – 4:30 pm ET)
SITC-NCI Computational Immuno-oncology Webinar Series
Dr. Eliezer Van Allen (Harvard University/Dana-Farber/BROAD and an IOTN investigator) will give a presentation on immunogenomics. The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Kellie Smith (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine).
May 13, 2021 (1:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET)
AACR Meet-the-Expert Session - Writing a Persuasive NIH Grant Application: A Program Director’s Perspective
Dr. Neeraja Sathyamoorthy, a DCB Program Director, will be giving this presentation.
May 13, 2021 (3:00 pm – 4:30 pm ET)
NIH Webinar Series: Moving from Hepatitis Discovery to Elimination - Research Advancing Hepatitis Elimination
This seminar, hosted by NIMDH/OAR, is titled, "Leaving no one behind: Research to uncover and address health disparities in hepatitis burden of disease and care."
May 21, 2021 (9:00 am – 12:00 pm ET)
IABS Webinar on the Evolution of FMT – From Early Clinical to Standardized Treatments
Dr. Phil Daschner, a DCB Program Director, is on the Scientific Committee that organized this event.
May 27, 2021 (3:30 pm – 4:30 pm ET)
SITC-NCI Computational Immuno-oncology Webinar Series
Dr. Shannon McWeeney (OHSU and a DRSN investigator) will give a presentation on statistics and machine learning. The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Santosh Putta (Qognit Inc).
June 1, 2021
Application Deadline: DataViz + Cancer Innovation Lab
NCI, as part of the Cancer Moonshot, is hosting an Innovation Lab from Aug. 2 - 6 to generate creative data visualization strategies for designing a better cancer patient experience.
June 17, 2021 (3:30 pm – 4:30 pm ET)
SITC-NCI Computational Immuno-oncology Webinar Series
Dr. Dana Pe'er (MSKCC and an HTAN investigator) will give a presentation on single-cell RNA sequencing. The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Daniel Wells (Immunai).
July 15, 2021
CSBC/PS-ON Summer Undergraduate Research Conference
Summer undergraduate researchers with the CSBC and PS-ON programs will share their work and learn about career paths in cancer research
July 15, 2021 (4:30 pm – 5:30 pm ET)
SITC-NCI Computational Immuno-oncology Webinar Series
Dr. Michael Angelo (Stanford University and a CIMAC-CIDC investigator) will give a presentation on quantitative imaging. The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Carsten Krieg (Medical University of South Carolina).
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 | NCIwebinars YouTube videos: Celebrating a Decade of PS-ON Research and PS-ON Patient Advocacy |
| 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 |