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NCI Rising Scholars: Cancer Research Seminar Series
Event Date: July 18, 2024
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has launched a new virtual seminar series titled NCI Rising Scholars: Cancer Research Seminar Series. This monthly seminar series is an opportunity to highlight the research and the important contributions made by NCI-supported postdoctoral fellows and early career investigators at NCI laboratories and NCI-funded institutions nationwide.
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Upcoming Events
(Displaying 14 out of 14 results)July 2024
DCP Early Career Scientist Spotlight Research Seminar Series
Event Date: July 29, 2024 Virtual Event
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP) has created the DCP Early Career Scientist Spotlight Research Seminar Series to highlight nominated early career scientists who are advancing research within the areas supported by DCP. The overall goal of this ongoing seminar series is to increase visibility and provide recognition to these DCP Early Career Scientists.
CCR-SIP Poster Day
Event Date: July 30, 2024 In-person (NIH Campus)
The CCR-SIP Poster Day is an opportunity to share research and scientific ideas in a more intimate presentation experience specifically for CCR interns and mentors before the NIH Summer Poster Day event. The CCR-Poster Day will be held on July 30, 2024 from 10AM – 12PM.
August 2024
AI Approaches to Target Undruggable Cancer Targets
Event Date: August 15, 2024 Hybrid Event
This workshop will be held August 15 at the Hubert Humphrey building in Washington, DC and will include short talks and discussion sessions. The workshop is part of the Biden Cancer Moonshot and is jointly organized by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Department of Energy (DOE), Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The goal of the workshop is to bring together academic, industry, and government experts to identify key research opportunities and highlight areas where the community can collaborate across sectors to make important advances in using AI to target undruggable targets.
Junior Investigator Meeting
Event Date: August 22, 2024 Hybrid - NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD
The 2024 NCI Junior Investigator (JI) Meeting will be held at the NIH Bethesda Campus on August 22-23, 2024. This hybrid (in person & virtual) meeting will bring together junior investigators (defined as late stage graduate students, postdocs, and early career faculty) representing experimental and systems biologists, physical scientists, big data scientists, engineers, and computational modelers who build and apply novel tools to better understand cancer. The JI meeting provides opportunities for junior scientists to meet fellow researchers, showcase their work, foster collaborations, and generate synergy between individuals with diverse skills and shared research interests. Sessions during the meeting will include a keynote lecture, panel discussions, workshops, and presentations.
September 2024
CIG Mini Symposium: Cytokines in Antifungal Host Defenses
Event Date: September 9, 2024 NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, MD
The NIH/FDA-Cytokine Interest Group is hosting a one-day mini-symposium on Cytokines and Antifungal Host Defenses on Sept 9, 2024 (Monday) in the Lipsett Auditorium, NIH, Bethesda, MD. This event is aimed to discuss the latest progress on cytokine biology during fungal infection, ranging from basic cellular/molecular mechanisms to clinical applications, and will feature both NIH intramural investigators (Steve Holland, NIAID; Eric Dang, NIAID; Mihalis Lionakis, NIAID) and guest speakers (Gordon Brown, U. Exeter; Sarah Gaffen, U.Pittsburgh; Iliyan Iliev, Cornell; Kathleen Mills, MSKCC; Suzanne Noble, UCSF; Josh Obar, Dartmouth; Amariliz Rivera, Rutgers; Kirsten Nielsen, UVA, Kelly Shepardson, UC Merced).
Fall 2024 NCI Early Drug Development
Event Date: September 26, 2024 Hybrid - NCI Shady Grove Campus, Rockville, MD and Virtual
The NCI CTEP Early Drug Development Meeting is held annually to enhance communication between NCI and the network of ETCTN investigators that conduct CTEP-sponsored early phase clinical trials. The meeting is open to academic, government, and pharmaceutical clinical investigators and related health care personnel involved in CTEP funded oncology early drug development (e.g. nurses, statisticians, translational scientist, etc.) The focus of the meeting is on prioritizing investigational agent selection and targeting, novel trial designs, and development and implementation of translational studies, as well as on new therapeutic and imaging modalities. The data presented at the meeting is considered a private communication, and the information should not be disseminated for public use.
October 2024
NCI's Office of Data Sharing Annual Symposium
Event Date: October 15, 2024 NIH Campus and Virtually
NCI Office of Data Sharing (ODS) is hosting the Annual Data Sharing Symposium titled Driving Cancer Advances through Impactful Research. A foundational shift to a culture of broad data sharing and collaborative science holds immense promise for more rapid advances in cancer research. NCI’s Office of Data Sharing will bring together experts and stakeholders including scientists, clinicians, policymakers, patients, advocates and trainees across government, academia and industry to learn from one another and explore ways to maximize the benefits of these efforts. Please join us for engaging discussions on advancing cancer research through data sharing and reuse.
2024 Gynecological Cancers SPORE Workshop
Event Date: October 15, 2024 Hybrid Event
Sponsored by the Translational Research Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute (NCI), this hybrid event aims to: identify challenges and knowledge gaps in Gyn translational research; highlight advances in the field, define resources and technologies; and foster collaborations among the Gynecological Cancer SPORE sites, patient advocates, and NCI staff.
CRDC 2024 Fall Symposium
Event Date: October 16, 2024 Hybrid - NIH Main Campus / NIH Shady Grove / Virtual
NCI’s Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) is hosting its 2024 Fall Symposium: Ten Years of Empowering Cancer Researchers on October 16th and 17th, 2024. The CRDC is a secure, cloud-based data science infrastructure that hosts more than 10 PB of data and accelerates cancer research by facilitating data submission, sharing, access, interoperability, and cost-effective analysis at scale. The 2024 Fall Symposium marks the 10th anniversary of the CRDC and will highlight accomplishments and a look ahead to new initiatives. This 2024 Symposium is open to the broad research community and the public.
International Conference on Malignancies in HIV/AIDS (ICMH)
Event Date: October 24, 2024 NIH Main Campus, Bethesda, MD
You are invited to join us at the 19th International Conference on Malignancies in HIV/AIDS (ICMH). The meeting will take place October 24-25, 2024, at the Natcher Conference Center on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer Annual Principal Investigator Meeting
Event Date: October 24, 2024 NCI Shady Grove Campus, Rockville, MD
The 2024 NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer Annual Principal Investigator Meeting will be held at the NCI Shady Grove facility on October 24-25, 2024. The meeting will gather the Alliance investigators and collaborators to present their recent research results as well as to discuss emerging opportunities in cancer nanotechnology.
Translational Advances in Cancer Prevention Agent Development (TACPAD) – 3rd Biennial Virtual Meeting
Event Date: October 28, 2024 Virtual Event
The main goals of the meeting are to: 1) Foster the exchange of ideas and potentially new collaborative interactions among leading cancer prevention researchers from basic and clinical research, 2) Highlight new and emerging trends in immunoprevention and chemoprevention as well as new information from clinical trials, and 3) Inform the research community of the significant resources available from the NCI to promote prevention agent development and rapid translation to clinical trials and to engage cancer researchers with novel prevention concepts.
NCI Workshop on Biospecimen Resources for Proteogenomic Characterization
Event Date: October 29, 2024 Virtual
The mission of the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) is to enhance the understanding of the molecular mechanisms of cancer development through integrated analysis of genomics and proteomics (proteogenomics), and imaging; generate community resources of data, protocols, and reagents; and accelerate the clinical translation of proteomic technologies.
February 2025
Consortium for Cancer Implementation Science Annual Meeting
Event Date: February 26, 2025 Winston-Salem, North Carolina
The Consortium for Cancer Implementation Science (CCIS) annual meeting taking place in-person from February 26-28, 2025, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina will be hosted by Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center. The annual meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and investigators to collaborate and advance the field of implementation science (IS) in cancer.