14th EDRN Scientific Workshop, May 20-22, 2025

The Early Detection Research Network (EDRN) will host its 14th EDRN Scientific Workshop "Unleashing the Power of Collaboration: The Future Is Here" from Tuesday-Thursday, May 20-22, 2025 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Washington DC North/Gaithersburg Hotel (in-person only)

Meeting Registration, Hotel Rooms and Poster Abstracts

Meeting Registration: Registration is mandatory to attend this event. Fill out this registration form at https://forms.office.com/r/GmAcQ64dZP?origin=lprLink to register easily online. Please be complete and accurate when completing this form—especially your email address. The deadline to register is Monday, May 12, 2025.
Hotel Rooms: EDRN has a block of sleeping rooms at the DoubleTree by Hilton Washington DC North/Gaithersburg hotel. The rate for all attendees is $276/night plus taxes. The deadline to book your room is April 28, 2025 or until the room block is full.
- Complete booking online: link will be available soon.
- To book by phone dial 301-977-8900--use code EDRN for the room block.
Poster Abstracts/Posterboards: The poster session is on Wednesday, May 21st starting with lightning presentations at 10:00 a.m. EDRN Principal Investigators must present a poster at this event and Early Career Investigators are strongly encouraged to present as are other attendees. CVCs are presenting on their biobanks. Please submit your poster abstract to the EDRN DMCC at edrndmcc@fredhutch.org by Friday, April 18, 2025.
- Formatting specifications for poster abstracts and poster board dimensions
- Formatting specifications for EDRN CVC Biobanks

Schedule of Events (all times Eastern Standard Time)

(Times of events are subject to change)

Date	Time	Topic	Materials
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.	Day 1: Check-in (Breakfast and Lunch are Complimentary for Hotel Guests, $50 for local attendees) Room: Majestic Ballroom Foyer	📜Main Agenda-DRAFT
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	8:00 a.m. – 8:10 a.m.	Day 1: Welcome Room: Majestic Ballroom Opening Remarks from Workshop Planning Chairs: Cecilia Yeung, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center James Willey, MD, University of Toledo College of Medicine	📜Day 1 Agenda-DRAFT
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	8:10 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.	Day 1: Keynote Address: Presenter TBD Room: Majestic Ballroom	📜Day 1 Agenda-DRAFT
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	8:30 a.m. – 8:50 a.m.	Day 1: Keynote Address: Presenter TBD Room: Majestic Ballroom	📜Day 1 Agenda-DRAFT
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	8:50 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Day 1: Session 1: Unraveling the Power of Spatial Genomics and digital pathology toward Biomarker Discovery: analytical and clinical validation and harmonization? (Jointly by EDRN and PreCancer Atlas Investigators (4 presenters) Room: Majestic Ballroom Chair/Co-chair: Cecilia Yeung, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Irene Ghobrial, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School	📜Day 1 Agenda-DRAFT
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.	Day 1: Networking Break	N/A
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Day 1: Session 2: Demystifying Data Science Applications in Multi-Modal Biomarker Development and Validation (3 presenters) Room: Majestic Ballroom Chair/Co-Chair: Jennifer Beane, PhD, Boston University School of Medicine Dan Crichton, MA, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory	📜Day 1 Agenda-DRAFT
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Day 1: Lunch (Breakfast and Lunch are Complimentary for Hotel Guests, $50 for local attendees) Rooms: Knife & Fork Restaurant and Innovation & Imagination Room	N/A
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.	Day 1: Session 3: Liquid Biopsy Analytical and Clinical Validation and Harmonization (Jointly by EDRN BRL and LBC-3 presenters) Room: Majestic Ballroom Chair/Co-chair: Jeff Tosoian, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nickolas Papadopoulos, PhD, Johns Hopkins University	📜Day 1 Agenda-DRAFT
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.	Day 1: Networking Break	N/A
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Day 1: Session 4: Unleashing the Power of Imaging and Radiomics (3 presenters) Room: Majestic Ballroom Chair/Co-chair: Matt Schabath, PhD, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. Anirban Maitra, MBBS, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	📜Day 1 Agenda-DRAFT
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Day 1: Panel Discussion for Sessions 1-4: Biomarker Development Room: Majestic Ballroom Chair/Co-chair: David Sidransky, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine David Wong, DMD, DMSC, University of California, Los Angeles	📜Day 1 Agenda-DRAFT
Tuesday, May 20, 2025	5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.	Day 1: Forum Discussion Room: Majestic Ballroom	📜Day 1 Agenda-DRAFT
Wednesday, May 21, 2025	7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.	Day 2: Check-in (Breakfast/Lunch is Complimentary for Hotel Guests, $50 for local attendees) Room: Majestic Ballroom Foyer	📜Day 2 Agenda-DRAFT
Wednesday, May 21, 2025	8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.	Day 2: Keynote 3 Speaker Room: Majestic Ballroom	📜Day 2 Agenda-DRAFT
Wednesday, May 21, 2025	8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.	Day 2: Session 5: Best Practices for Biomarker Discovery and Development (3 Presenters) Room: Majestic Ballroom Chair/Co-Chair: James Willey, MD, University of Toledo College of Medicine Gerard Davis, PhD, Abbott Laboratories	📜Day 2 Agenda-DRAFT
Wednesday, May 21, 2025	9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.	Day 2: Break	N/A
Wednesday, May 21, 2025	10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.	Day 2: Poster Lightening Presentations (6 presentations) Room: Majestic Ballroom	📜Day 2 Agenda-DRAFT
Wednesday, May 21, 2025	11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Lunch (Breakfast and Lunch are Complimentary for Hotel Guests, $50 for local attendees) Rooms: Knife & Fork Restaurant and Innovation & Imagination Room	N/A
Wednesday, May 21, 2025	12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m	Day 2: Poster Session Room: Discovery Ballroom	📜Day 2 Agenda-DRAFT
Wednesday, May 21, 2025	2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Day 2: Session 6: Novel biomarker discovery technology and late breaking abstracts: Flash Talks for Selected Abstracts (5-min each) and Consortia (EDRN, PCDC, PCA, TBEL, LB, TLC) ESI Presentations (3 Presentations) Room: Majestic Ballroom	📜Day 2 Agenda-DRAFT
Wednesday, May 21, 2025	3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Day 2: Session 7: Biobanks: Fueling The Multi-Omics Approaches For Biomarker Discovery (Introductions and 3 Presentations) Room: Majestic Ballroom Chair/Co-chair: Stephen Deppen, MD, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Randy Brand, MD, University of Pittsburgh	📜Day 2 Agenda-DRAFT
Thursday, May 22, 2025	7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.	Day 3: Check-in (Breakfast/Lunch is Complimentary for Hotel Guests, $50 for local attendees) Room: Majestic Ballroom Foyer	📜Day 3 Agenda-DRAFT
Thursday, May 22, 2025	8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.	Day 3: Plenary Talk Room: Majestic Ballroom	📜Day 3 Agenda-DRAFT
Thursday, May 22, 2025	8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.	Day 3: Session 8: Clinical Utility Trials: Clinical Utility Assessment with focus on the Efforts of the Cancer Screening Network, Including Both MCEDs and Single Cancer Biomarkers (3 Presentations) Room: Majestic Ballroom Chair/Co-chair: Bob Bresalier, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	📜Day 3 Agenda-DRAFT
Thursday, May 22, 2025	9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Day 3: Panel Discussion Suggestions for Session 8: Regulatory and Reimbursement Considerations Room: Majestic Ballroom	📜Day 3 Agenda-DRAFT
Thursday, May 22, 2025	10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Day 3: Closing and Final Remarks Room: Majestic Ballroom	📜Day 3 Agenda-DRAFT