Project Group Meetings
Project Group meetings are scheduled to take place both the week prior to and the week of the Annual Meeting, with virtual meetings on September 14 - 18 and in-person/hybrid meetings on September 21 - 23.
Meeting calendar invites will be emailed separately from Project Group Leads after you register for the Annual Meeting on the Registration page. Once you receive the Project Group meeting email, please save each Project Group meeting invite to your calendar, as it includes important logistics and access details for attending the meeting. If you have signed up for a project group meeting and are missing any details for attending, contact NCICohortConsortium@mail.nih.gov or the Project Group Leader of the meeting.
The Project Group in-person registration deadline is August 21.
The Project Group virtual registration deadline is September 11.
The following times are all listed in the Eastern Time Zone (ET). Room assignments for hybrid meetings will be posted a week prior to the meetings.
| Date | Name of Project Group | Time | Meeting Format | Project Group Lead(s) | Room Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, September 14 | Lymphoid Malignancies Working Group | 10:30 am – 12:30 pm (ET) | Virtual | Charlie Zhong | Virtual Meeting |
| Monday, September 14 | Premenopausal Breast Cancer Collaborative Group | 1:00 – 2:30 pm (ET) | Virtual | Dale Sandler Katie O'Brien | Virtual Meeting |
| Monday, September 14 | Diet and Cancer Pooling Project (DCPP) Integrated Working Group Meeting I* (see meeting topics below) | 4:00 – 6:30 pm (ET) | Virtual | Stephanie Smith-Warner | Virtual Meeting |
| Tuesday, September 15 | Physical Activity Pooling Project | 10:30 am – 12:30 pm (ET) | Virtual | Alpa Patel | Virtual Meeting |
| Tuesday, September 15 | Pancreatic Cancer (PanScan3) Cohort Consortium Future Directions | 1:00 – 3:00 pm (ET) | Virtual | Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon | Virtual Meeting |
| Wednesday, September 16 | Diet and Cancer Pooling Project (DCPP) Integrated Working Group Meeting II** (see meeting topics below) | 10:00 am – 12:30 pm (ET) | Virtual | Stephanie Smith-Warner | Virtual Meeting |
| Thursday, September 17 | Biliary Tract Cancers Pooling Project | 10:30 am – 12:00 pm (ET) | Virtual | Jill Koshiol | Virtual Meeting |
| Monday, September 21 | Interoperability Interest Group | 2:00 – 4:00 pm (ET) | Hybrid | Peter Kraft | TBD |
| Tuesday, September 22 | Microbiome and Cancer in the Cohort Consortium (MBCCC) | 12:30 – 2:30 pm (ET) | Hybrid | Emily Vogtmann | TBD |
| Tuesday, September 22 | Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Working Group | 3:00 – 5:00 pm (ET) | Hybrid | Peter Kraft | TBD |
| Wednesday, September 23 | Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (PC3) | 12:30 – 2:30 pm (ET) | Hybrid | Konrad Stopsack | TBD |
| Wednesday, September 23 | Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium (OC3) | 3:00 – 5:00 pm (ET) | Hybrid | Britton Trabert | TBD |
*Part of the DCPP I meeting, topics include the following:
- Establishing Dietary and Body Size-Related Risk Factors for Oesophageal Cancer
- Alcohol, Diet and Body Fatness as Risk Factors for Stomach Cancer and its Subtypes
- Diet, Weight and Physical Activity and Risk of Glioma
- Environmental Factors, GxE Interactions and Bladder Cancer Risk
- Coffee drinking and mortality
**Part of the DCPP II meeting, topics include the following:
- Population Attributable Fraction (PAF) Project for six cancers
- Family History and Breast and Colorectal Cancer
- Investigating the role of lifestyle in neuroendocrine tumor development
- Dietary pattern scores and less common pancreatic cancer subtypes
- LIFEstyle factors and LONGevity (LIFELONG)