37th EDRN Steering Committee Meeting/EDRN Lung & Upper Aerodigestive Cancers Collaborative Group Meeting Draft Agenda

 Tuesday, October 19, 2021

10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time

Chair: James Herman, MD, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Co-chair:   Steven Dubinett, MD, University of California, Los Angeles

NCI Program Directors : Lynn Sorbara, PhD, and Karl Krueger, PhD, National Cancer Institute

 

Agenda

 

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Collaborative Group Meetings
Moderators: Lynn Sorbara, PhD, Karl Krueger, PhD, National Cancer Institute
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Team Projects and Projects Supported with CORE Funds
o    What was accomplished and what remains to be done
o    Feasibility of completion
o    Lessons learned
o    Recommendations for improvements
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 01: Lung Cancer Screening in a High-Rick Underrepresented Cohort of Low-Income and African Americans
Eric Grogan, MD - Vanderbilt University
Validating an Integrated Biomarker and Imaging Approach in the Evaluation of Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules (IPNs)
Stephen Deppen, PhD- Vanderbilt University
10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Q/A
10:40 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. 02: Collaborative Studies of Lung Cancer Associated Airway Gene Expression and Plasma markers
Marc Lenburg, PhD - Boston University
Steven Dubinett, MD, UCLA
11:10 a.m.  – 11:20 a.m. Q/A
11:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 03: International Collaborations: Failure and Success
Harvey Pass, MD – New York University
12:00 p.m. – 12:10 p.m. Q/A
12:10 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Break
12:30 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. 04: Longitudinal Study with Samples from Israel
Louise Showe, PhD – Wistar Institute
12:50 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Q/A
1:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. 05: Phase 2 validation of Airway Epithelial Cell TP53 Mutation Biomarker for Lung Cancer Risk
James Willey, MD – University of Toledo
1:20 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Q/A
1:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. 06: Radiomic Classifiers for Incidental Pulmonary Nodules
Matthew Schabath, PhD – Moffitt Cancer Center
1:50 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Q/A
2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. 07: Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) as Biomarkers for Early Detection of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Feng Jiang, PhD/Sanford Stass, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine
2:20 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Q/A
2:30 p.m.  – 3:00 p.m. 08: Plasma and Urine Detection of DNA Methylation in Diverse Populations Methylation Marker Detection of Multiple Cancers in ctDNA
Jim Herman, MD – University of Pittsburgh
3:00 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. Q/A
3:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session Wrap Up
3:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. Break
3:50 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Discussion of Potential Clinical Utility Trials
Moderators: 
o   James Herman, MD, University of Pittsburgh Cancer institute
o   Steven Dubinett, MD, University of California, Los Angeles
3:50 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. Discussion focus: Clinical applications and Trial Design
4:50 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wrap-up of this session
5:00 p.m. Adjourn