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, MD; Oluwadamilola 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