Welcome
Welcome to the 25th Annual Principal Investigators Meeting for the NCI Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program being held Dec. 16 - 18, 2024. This year's meeting will be held at the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD. Attendance is expected from all investigators with an IMAT award that is active (and not its first year) at the time of the meeting. Investigators with a newly awarded IMAT grant or those whose project only recently ended are also welcome to attend.
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. This site will be updated as we get closer to the date of the meeting with information about local hotels, the meeting agenda, and other details. We look forward to an exciting and productive meeting.
Kind regards,
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