Annual Meeting of the NCI Cohort Consortium (Project Group Meetings)

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.

DateName of Project GroupTimeMeeting FormatProject Group Lead(s)Room Assignment
Monday, September 14Lymphoid Malignancies Working Group10:30 am – 12:30 pm (ET)VirtualCharlie ZhongVirtual Meeting
Monday, September 14Premenopausal Breast Cancer Collaborative Group1:00 – 2:30 pm (ET)VirtualDale 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)VirtualStephanie Smith-WarnerVirtual Meeting
Tuesday, September 15Physical Activity Pooling Project10:30 am – 12:30 pm (ET)VirtualAlpa PatelVirtual Meeting
Tuesday, September 15Pancreatic Cancer (PanScan3) Cohort Consortium Future Directions1:00 – 3:00 pm (ET)VirtualRachael Stolzenberg-SolomonVirtual 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)VirtualStephanie Smith-WarnerVirtual Meeting
Thursday, September 17Biliary Tract Cancers Pooling Project10:30 am – 12:00 pm (ET)VirtualJill KoshiolVirtual Meeting
Monday, September 21Interoperability Interest Group2:00 – 4:00 pm (ET)HybridPeter KraftTBD
Tuesday, September 22Microbiome and Cancer in the Cohort Consortium (MBCCC)12:30 – 2:30 pm (ET)HybridEmily VogtmannTBD
Tuesday, September 22Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Working Group3:00 – 5:00 pm (ET)HybridPeter KraftTBD
Wednesday, September 23Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium (PC3)12:30 – 2:30 pm (ET)HybridKonrad StopsackTBD
Wednesday, September 23Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium (OC3)3:00 – 5:00 pm (ET)HybridBritton TrabertTBD

*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)