EDRN Gastrointestinal Cancers Collaborative Group Meeting

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. MST

Room: Joshua Tree

Chair: Amitabh Chak, MD, UH Cleveland Medical Center

Co-chair: Cecelia Yeung, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

NCI Program Directors: Matthew Young PhD, National Cancer Institute

DMCC: Ziding Feng, PhD, Ying Huang, PhD, Stephanie Page-Lester, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Agenda

Mountain Standard Time Agenda Item

2:00-3:15pm

Early Stage Investigators 20 minute talk, 5 minute Q&A

2:00-2:25pm

01: Kamel Lahouel, PhD, UPMC/COH, The Translational Genomics Research Institute
Detection of Advanced Adenoma in Plasma

2:25-2:50pm

02: Aasma Shaukat, MD, PhD, GLNE New York University Grossman School of Medicine Langone Health
Serrated Polyps: Lessons from GLNE 10

2:50-3:15pm

03: Prakash Kshirsagar, PhD, UPMC/UNMC University of Nebraska Medical Center Multiplexed Nanoprobe assay for ultrasensitive, PCR-free detection of circulating transcripts for early detection of pancreatic cancer

3:15-3:55pm

Guest Speakers (15 minute presentation and 5 minute Q&A)

3:15-3:35pm

04: Haiyong Han, PhD, PCDC

The Translational Genomics Research Institute

EV based protein markers for disease monitoring in patients with pancreatic cancer

3:35-3:55pm

05: Giman Jung, PhD, Toray International

APOA2-iTQ In Vitro Diagnostics Kit for Aid in the Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer

3:55-4:05pm

Break

4:05-5:25pm

PI Talks (15 minute presentation with 5 minutes of Q&A

4:05-4:25pm

06: Amit Singal, MD, UT Southwestern

Update on Liver Cancer CVC

4:25-4:45pm

07: William Grady, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

A Cell-free DNA Blood-Based Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening

Cecilia Yeung, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Updates from our BRL

4:45-5:05pm

08: Sandy Markowitz MD, PhD, Nick Shaheen, MD, Amitabh Chak, MD, Case Western Reserve University

EDRN progress

5:05-5:25pm

09: Robert Bresalier, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Update of GLNE activities

5:25-6:00pm

Discussion and Adjourn