Final Agenda
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
EDRN Steering Committee Meeting (All Times EDT)
10:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. EDT |
Opening of June 2020 EDRN Steering Committee Meeting Joshua LaBaer, M.D., Ph.D., Arizona State University/The Biodesign Institute |
10:10 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. EDT |
SC01: State of the EDRN Sudhir Srivastava, Ph.D., M.P.H., National Cancer Institute |
10:20 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. EDT |
SC02: EsoCheck and EsoGuard Sanford Markowitz, M.D., Case Western Reserve University |
10:35 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. EDT | Q&A |
10:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT | Collaborative Group Reports |
10:40 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. EDT |
SC03: Gastrointestinal and Other Cancers Brian Haab, Ph.D., Van Andel Research Institute Robert Schoen, M.D., M.P.H., University of Pittsburgh |
10:55 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EDT | Q&A |
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. EDT |
SC04: Breast and Gynecological Cancers Steven Skates, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital Christopher Li, M.D., Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
11:15 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. EDT | Q&A |
11:20 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. EDT |
SC05: Lung and Upper Aerodigestive Cancers Pierre Massion, M.D., Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center James Herman, M.D., University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute |
11:35 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. EDT | Q&A |
11:40 a.m. – 11:55 a.m. EDT |
SC06: Prostate and Urological Cancers O. John Semmes, Ph.D., Eastern Virginia Medical School Martin Sanda, M.D., Emory University |
11:55 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT | Q&A |
12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. EDT | Break |
12:15 p.m. – 1:05 p.m. EDT |
International Partnership on Novel Resources and Initiatives Goal: Describe novel resources and initiatives relevant to EDRN. Chair: Karen Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., Arizona State University/The Biodesign Institute |
12:15 p.m. – 12:35 p.m. EDT |
SC07: Evaluation and Discovery of Early Detection Markers in Large-scale Prospective Population Cohorts Rudolf Kaaks, PhD., Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center |
12:35 p.m. – 12:40 p.m. EDT | Q&A |
12:40 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT |
SC08: Resources for Ovarian Cancer Discovery and Validation Studies Renée Fortner, Ph.D., Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center |
1:00 p.m. – 1:05 p.m. EDT | Q&A |
1:05 p.m. – 1:25 p.m. EDT | Break |
1:25 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. EDT |
Universal Cancer Screening: Pros and Cons Goal: The concept of universal cancer screening is gaining some traction. In this session we will explore opportunities and challenges related to this approach informed by the EDRN experience. Chair: Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan |
1:25 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. EDT |
SC09: A Case for Multi-Cancer Testing Kenneth Kinzler, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
1:45 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. EDT | Q&A |
1:50 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. EDT |
SC10: Simultaneous Multi-Cancer Detection using a Cell-free Nucleic Acid Assay Eric Fung, M.D., Ph.D. GRAIL |
2:10 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. EDT | Q&A |
2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. EDT |
SC11: The Path to Multi-Cancer Screening Kathryn Lang, M.D., Guardant Health |
2:30 p.m. – 2:35 p.m. EDT | Q&A |
2:35 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. EDT | SC12: Decoding the means to cancer’s end Girish Putcha, M.D., Ph.D., Freenome |
2:50 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. EDT | Q&A |
2:55 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. EDT |
Panel Discussion Sanford Markowitz, M.D., Case Western Reserve University Martin Sanda, M.D., Emory University Samir Hanash, M.D., Ph.D., The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Joshua LaBaer, M.D., Ph.D., Arizona State University/The Biodesign Institute |
3:15 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. EDT | Break |
3:35 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. EDT |
SC13: Biomarkers and BIG Data Chair: Dan Crichton, M.S., NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Panel Discussion Dan Crichton, M.S., NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ziding Feng, Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Steven Skates, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital Zhen Zhang, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Paul Boutros, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Matthew Schabath, Ph.D., H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Inc. |