Agenda
Time | Topic and Speaker |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. | Welcome Background and Goals of the Workshop Mukesh Verma, PhD, NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences |
| 10:20 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. | Keynote Address Molecular Epidemiology of Cancer Incidence and Progression with an Eye Toward Translation of Findings into Strategies for Prevention and Treatment Elizabeth A. Platz, ScD, MPH, Johns Hopkins University |
10:50 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. | Session 1: AI-based Technologies/Models in Cancer Epidemiology (Risk Prediction Model, Screening) |
| Moderators: Rajeev Agarwal, PhD, NIH Office of the Director, and David Miller, PhD, NCI Division of Cancer Biology | |
| Talk 1 Scalable Multimodal AI for Cancer Microbiome Epidemiology Himel Mallick, PhD, Cornell University | |
| Talk 2 Artificial Intelligence for Dynamic Cancer Risk Prediction and Personalized Survivorship Care Yufen Lin, PhD, Emory University | |
| Talk 3 Generative AI for Predicting Cancer Outcomes Using Multi-Omic Data Anai N. Kothari, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin | |
| Panel discussion | |
| 11:50 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Break |
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Session 2: Functional Assays, Multi-omics Approaches, Data Integration, Other Approaches in Cancer Epidemiology |
| Moderators: Ramona Gianina Dumitrescu, PhD, NIH Center for Scientific Review, and Neeraj Saxena, PhD, NCI Division of Cancer Prevention | |
| Talk 4 3’ End Modification: A Personalized Index of MicroRNA Dynamics Seyedtaghi (Shervin) Takyar, PhD, Yale School of Medicine | |
| Talk 5 Rhythmic QTLs Link Circadian Regulation to Cancer Risk Dongyin Guan, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine | |
| Talk 6 The Role of NIST Reference Materials in Harmonizing Large-scale Metabolomics Studies Sandra Da Silva, PhD, National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) | |
| Panel discussion | |
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Session 3: Impact on Improving Survival and Quality of Life |
| Moderators: Anil Wali, PhD, NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, and Gabriela Riscuta, PhD, NCI Division of Cancer Prevention | |
| Talk 7 Use of Aging Measures in Hematological Malignancy Research Vijaya Raj Bhatt, MBBS, MS, University of Nebraska Medical Center | |
| Talk 8 Bridging the Efficacy-Effectiveness Gap: Cancer Control Research Through the Lens of Economics in an AI-Powered Era Yilu (Bill) Dong, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin | |
| Talk 9 GeoAI-Based Zoning Strategies to Enhance Sub-County Cancer Surveillance Gabriel A. Benavidez, PhD, Baylor University | |
| Panel discussion | |
| 3:00 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. | Break |
| 3:10 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. | Meeting Summary Discussion of Gaps and Opportunities in the Field Mukesh Verma, PhD, NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences |
| 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks Mukesh Verma, PhD, NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences and Session Moderators |
| 4:00 p.m. | Meeting Adjourns |