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.