37th EDRN Steering Committee Meeting/Prostate and Urological Cancers Collaborative Group Meeting Draft Agenda

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time

Chair : O. John Semmes, PhD, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Co-Chair: Martin Sanda, MD, Emory University School of Medicine

NCI Program Directors:   Jacob Kagan, MSc, PhD, and Richard Mazurchuk, PhD, National Cancer Institute

Agenda

 

10:00 a.m. – 10:05 a.m. Welcome  
o   O. John Semmes, PhD, East Virginia Medical School
o   Martin Sanda, MD, Emory University School of Medicine
10:05 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. NCI Updates
o   Jacob Kagan, MSc, PhD National Cancer Institute
o   Richard Mazurchuk, PhD, National Cancer Institute
10:10 a.m. – 10:25 a.m. 01: Report from the Advocates  
Merel Grey Nissenberg, Esq., President, California Prostate Cancer Coalition
10:25 a.m. – 11:15 a.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
10:25 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. 02: P-MRI Study Update
John T. Wei, MD, University of Michigan
10:45 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Q&A
10:50 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. 03: The Prostate Upgrading Study
o     Phase 1: Robin Leach, PhD, The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio 
o     Phase 2: Paul Boutros, PhD, MBA, Cancer Data Science, University of California, Los Angeles
11:10 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
11:15 a.m.  – 11:25 a.m. Break
11:25 a.m. – 2:50 p.m. Updates on GU Collaborative Group’s Studies
11:25 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. 04: Evolution of MyProstateScore (MPS): Urine transcriptomic analyses to detect aggressive prostate cancer
Arul Chinnaiyan MD, PhD, University of Michigan
11:45 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. Q&A
11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. 05: Glycoprotein Marker Panels for Aggressive Prostate Cancer Detection
Hui Zhang, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
12:10 p.m. – 12:15 p.m. Q&A
12:15 p.m. – 12:35 p.m. 06: Proteomics Approaches to Detect Aggressive Prostate Cancers
Thomas Kislinger, MSc, PhD, University of Toronto
12:35 p.m. – 12:40 p.m. Q&A
12:40 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. 07: Combining Serum Phi and Urine PCA3/T2Erg to Refine Patient Selection for Prostate Biopsy
Martin Sanda, MD, Emory University
1:00 p.m. – 1:05 p.m. Q&A
1:05 p.m. – 1:35 p.m. Lunch Break
1:35 p.m. – 1:55 p.m. 08: Development of a  Panel of Biomarkers for Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Daniel W. Chan, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
1:55 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Q&A
2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. 09: Towards Early Prediction of Prostate Cancer Progression Applying Advanced Mass Spectrometry Technologies
Tao Liu PhD Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2:20 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. Q&A
2:25 p.m. – 2:45 p.m 10: CPDR-EDRN BRL: Dynamic Progress of Collaborative Biomarker Projects
Gyorgy Petrovics, PhD, Center for Prostate Disease Research (CPDR)
2:45 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. Q&A
2:50 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Discussion of Prostate Cancer Clinical Utility Study
Moderator: Martin Sanda, MD, Emory University
 
 
Discussants:
o   Yingye Zheng, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
o   Martin Sanda, MD, Emory University
o   Alan W. Partin, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
o   Jeffrey Tosoian, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Summary and Open Discussion of the Current and Future Directions of the GU Collaborative Group
O. John Semmes, PhD, East Virginia Medical School
5:00 p.m. Adjourn for the Day