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Past DCTD Meetings

DCTD hosts a variety of scientific meetings to facilitate research in the broader scientific community. Information about our past events is listed below by year, including recordings and publications, when available.

Please visit our Events page for upcoming meetings.

2025 Meetings

In Vivo Engineering of Immune Cells (IVEIC) for Cancer Immunotherapy

Date: May 5-6
Contact: Dr. Zhang-Zhi Hu 

2024 Meetings

NCI-IOTN-SITC-AAI Workshop on Combining Immunotherapy with Radiotherapy: Opportunities and Challenges for Clinical Translation

Date: January 16-17
Workshop Summary 
Contact: Dr. Connie Sommers 

NCI Workshop on Digital Pathology Imaging (DPI) in Cancer Clinical Trials and Research 

Date: March 6-7
Workshop Summary 
Contact: Dr. Hala Makhlouf 

NCI Synthetic Biology for Molecular Imaging in Cancer Workshop 

Date: April 22-23
Workshop Summary 
Contact: Dr. Charles Lin 

Integrative Oncology Research Course

Dates: May 29-30 (Spring session: International Collaborative Integrative Oncology Research)
September 5-6 (Fall session: Case Reports and Clinical Audit)
Research Course Summary: This course was developed following a Letter of Intent (LOI) between Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) and the Central Council for Research on Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), India, signed in October 2020. The LOI provides opportunity for training collaboration between the two institutions.
Course Videos:
Spring Session: Day 1, Day 2
Contact: Libin Jia, MDOluwadamilola Olaku, MD, MPH

DCTD’s Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine Bioelectricity and Cancer Conference

Date: September 12
Workshop Summary 
Contact: Dr. Avi Rasooly 

2023 Meetings

Cancer, Aging, and Comorbidities Webinar Series 

Date: January - July
Summary: NCI, in collaboration with the National Institute on Aging, convened a seven-part webinar series aimed to facilitate the understanding of the complex roles that aging and comorbidities play in mechanisms underlying cancer response, cancer treatment, and survivorship. 
Workshop Publication: Chen, 2024
Contact: Dr. Weiwei Chen 

ctDNA in Cancer Treatment and Clinical Care

Date: September 14-15
Summary: This workshop focused on the current landscape and requirements for the future of ctDNA in the treatment and management of solid tumors, and how the scientific community can best assess the value of ctDNA technology.
Workshop Publication: Sorg, 2024
Contact: Dr. Brian Sorg

2022 Meetings

Maximizing the Research Use of Small Biopsy Tissue 

Date: February 9
Summary: The goal of this webinar series was to provide investigators with an opportunity to understand challenges and best practices for research biopsy collection and successful approaches for communication, team effort, and subsequent analysis that result in sufficient quality and quantity of analytes for molecular research and clinical testing.
Symposium Recording 
Contact: Dr. Lokesh Agrawal 

NCI Workshop on Neutron Capture Therapy (NCT) for Cancer 

Date: April 20-22
Summary: The goals of this workshop were to assess the state of NCT, confer on NCT compounds under development and in the pipeline, stimulate new ideas for relevant neutron capture isotopes, and discuss and recommend the best models/methods for translational research.
Workshop Recordings: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 
Contact: Dr. Jacek Capala 

NCI Webinar Series: Novel Chemical Approaches for Targeting Fusion Oncoproteins 

Date: August - October
Summary: A joint effort between DCTD's Developmental Therapeutics Program and NCI's Division of Cancer Biology, this webinar series enhanced understanding within the NCI and the research community of opportunities for targeting fusion oncoproteins through emerging chemoproteomic methods.
Workshop Publication: Verma, 2024
Contact: Dr. Sharad Verma

Workshop on Shaping the Landscape of Brain Metastases Research 

Date: September 29-30
Summary: This workshop convened stakeholders across the spectrum of brain metastases research (patients and patient advocates, cooperative group leadership, brain tumor foundations, translational and clinical investigators, professional societies, and NIH leadership) to identify priorities that will shape the landscape of future brain metastases research.
Recordings: Day 1 Sessions 1-2, 3-4; Day 2 Sessions 5-7 
Contact: Dr. Manuel Perez 

2021 Meetings

Workshop on Next Generation Sequencing and Radiomics

Date: September 29-30
Summary: The goal of this meeting was for the scientific community to discuss existing resource gaps and their impact on NGS and radiomics as well as strategies to accelerate high-quality research, development, validation, and regulatory science. 
Workshop recordings: (Day 1; Day 2)
Contact: NCICDPNews@mail.nih.gov

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