Welcome
Welcome to the 24th Annual Principal Investigators Meeting for the NCI Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program being held Dec. 6-8, 2023. This year's meeting is being hosted by the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois.
Since 1998, the IMAT program has been a key component of NCI’s strategy for supporting innovative and emerging technologies for cancer research and clinical care and your involvement as a grantee is important. This annual meeting is organized to address two important aims of the IMAT program:
- Provide NCI program staff a chance to interact directly with PIs and receive an update on progress to date of supported research
- Present opportunities for interactions and exchanges of ideas among meeting participants, which is critical to sparking potentially transformative project collaborations, receiving critical feedback and guidance from the community, and fostering dissemination of the exciting technologies emerging from IMAT-supported researchers.
On behalf of the NCI program staff and everyone involved in the planning for this meeting, we thank you for your participation, your enthusiasm, and the important work you all do to assist in our collective mission against cancer. We look forward to an exciting and productive meeting.
Kind regards,
Tony Dickherber, Ph.D.
Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Tel. (301) 547-9980
anthony.dickherber@nih.gov
Kelly Crotty, Ph.D.
Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Tel. (240) 255-0917
kelly.crotty@nih.gov