Affordable Cancer Technologies Program Principal Investigators Meeting (Agenda)

Agenda

Wednesday, September 20, 2023
9:00 am - 9:30 am

Opening Remarks & Meeting Overview
Satish Gopal, M.D.
Director
Center for Global Health, NCI

Paul Pearlman, PhD
Lead, Global Health Technology
Center for Global Health, NCI

9:30 am - 10:45 am

Investigator Presentations I - HPV Diagnostics
15 minutes for talks, 5 minutes Q&A following each talk (1-2 quick questions), 15 minute group discussion. Talks should include representation from HIC and LMIC investigators and discussion of both engineering/assay design and clinical/public health applications.

Moderators:
Christos Patriotis, PhD , Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI
Vikrant Sahasrabuddhe, MBBS, MPH, DrPH, Division of Cancer Prevention, NCI

Innovative Rapid Enabling, Affordable, point-of-Care HPV Self-Testing Strategy (I-REACH)
Juliet Iwelunmor, Saint Louis University

Low-Cost CRISPR-on-Paper for Cervical Cancer Screening at the Point of Care
Changchun Liu, University of Connecticut

Composing CODAs to cervical cancer screening through an integrated CRISPR and fluorescent nucleic acid approachAfrica using KS-COMPLETE
Cesar Castro, Massachusetts General Hospital

10:45 am - 11:00 am

Break

11:00 am - 11:20 am

SBIR/STTR Opportunities for Global Oncology
10 minute talk and 10 minutes for Q&A
Ming Zhao, PhD
Program Director
SBIR Development Center, NCI

11:20 am - 12:15 pm

Investigator Presentations II - Pathology
15 minutes for talks, 5 minutes Q&A following each talk (1-2 quick questions), 15 minute group discussion. Talks should include representation from HIC and LMIC investigators and discussion of both engineering/assay design and clinical/public health applications

Moderators:
Brian Sorg, PhD, Cancer Diagnosis Program, NCI
Miguel Ossandon, PhD, Cancer Diagnosis Program, NCI

An AI-enabled Digital Pathology Platform for Multi-Cancer Diagnosis, Prognosis and Prediction of Therapeutic Benefit
Anant Madabhushi, Emory University

Breast core-needle diagnostics in LMICs via millifluidics and direct-to-digital imaging: development and validation in Ghana
Richard Levenson, University of California, Davis

12:15 pm

Adjourn

Thursday, September 21, 2023
8:30 am - 8:45 am

Opening Remarks
Paul Pearlman, PhD
Lead, Global Health Technology
Center for Global Health, NCI

8:45 am - 10:25 am

Investigator Presentations III - Imaging and Image Analysis Technologies
15 minutes for talks, 5 minutes Q&A following each talk (1-2 quick questions), 20 minute group discussion. Talks should include representation from HIC and LMIC investigators and discussion of both engineering/assay design and clinical/public health applications

Moderator:
Pushpa Tandon, PhD, Cancer Imaging Program, NCI
Yisong Wang, PhD, Cancer Imaging Program, NCI

Development and Validation of an Artificial-Intelligence-enabled Portable Colposcopy Device for Optimizing Triage Alternatives for HPV-based Cervical Cancer Screening
Nirmala Ramanujam, Duke University

A comprehensive platform for low-cost screening and image-guided photodynamic therapy (PDT) of pre-malignant and malignant oral lesions in low resource settings
Tayyaba Hasan, Massachusetts General Hospital

KeyScope: The Key to Sustainable Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in Uganda
Tamara Fitzgerald, Duke University

ARCHERY: Artificial Intelligence based Radiotherapy treatment planning for Cervical and Head and Neck cancer
Ajay Aggarwal, University College London

10:25 am - 10:35 am

Break

10:35 am - 11:50 am

Investigator Presentations III - SBIR/STTR Project Session
15 minutes for talks, 5 minutes Q&A following each talk (1-2 quick questions), 15 minute group discussion. Talks should include representation from HIC and LMIC investigators and discussion of both engineering/assay design and clinical/public health applications

Moderator:
Ming Zhao, PhD, SBIR Development Center, NCI

Precision methylation biomarkers for cervical cancer prevention in low resource settings in Latin America
Rafael Guerrero-Preston and David Sidransky, Lifegene-Biomarks, Inc.

Translational Use of Intradermal Needle-free Injector to facilitate and optimize global fractional dose HPV vaccine administration
Erin Spiegel, Pharmajet, Inc.

Laser Surgical System for the Resection of Cancerous CellsNathan Monty, Spatial Surgical, LLC.

11:50 am - 1:05 pm

Investigator Presentations III - Point of Care Technologies
15 minutes for talks, 5 minutes Q&A following each talk (1-2 quick questions), 15 minute group discussion. Talks should include representation from HIC and LMIC investigators and discussion of both engineering/assay design and clinical/public health applications

Moderator:
Tony Dickherber, PhD, Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives, NCI
Rao Divi, PhD, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI

Rapid Sample-to-Answer Diagnosis of Kaposi's Sarcoma Across Sub-Saharan Africa using KS-COMPLETE
David Erickson, Cornell University

Adapting a point of use test card, the chemoPAD, for protecting chemotherapy drug quality in sub-Saharan Africa
Marya Lieberman, University of Notre Dame

Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Esophageal Cancer in LMICs
Stephen Meltzer, Johns Hopkins University

1:05 - 1:15 pm

Closing Remarks and Adjourn
Paul Pearlman