The Cancer Imaging Program Convenes CIRP Annual Virtual Meeting 2020

The Co-Clinical Imaging Research Resources Program (CIRP) Network is a trans-NCI initiative designed to:

• provide the broader cancer community with web-accessible research resources for quantitative imaging of co-clinical trials (simultaneous investigations in patients and in animal models)
• encourage consensus on how quantitative imaging methods are optimized to improve the quality of imaging results for co-clinical therapeutic or prevention trials of adult and pediatric cancer

The CIRP Annual Virtual Meeting 2020 (agenda) was held on June 22-23 and brought the six U24 teams together from Washington University at St. Louis, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and the three-site team of Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Texas at Austin, and Stanford University. Additional stakeholders from academia, industry, and federal agencies joined the event.

Meeting Mission

• review the progress of CIRP program
• identify challenges in all four essential areas of CIRP
• seek solutions for harmonization and standardization
• explore integrative strategies for co-clinical imaging research and multi-scale information integration

Meeting Topics and Events

• CIRP program update
• progress reports from the six CIRP teams
• demonstrations of web-resource development from four of the CIRP teams
• 21 poster briefings from the six CIRP teams
• progress updates of the CIRP Steering Committee and the three working groups (WGs)
• 15 talks on specific issues in the area of animal models and co-clinical trials, imaging acquisitions and data processing, informatics, and outreach
• panel discussions from the three WGs
• integration of issues across the CIRP network and WGs
• eight briefings of the related NCI programs and resources, plus the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) program
• CIRP Steering Committee business management session

As a research resource program, CIRP seeks to leverage existing NCI resources and programs to ensure best practices, effective outreach, and service improvement.