NCI at AACR 2017 - Tuesday, April 4th

NCI at AACR 2017 - Tuesday, April 4th

NCI at AACR 2017 Highlights

From the National Cancer Institute

Updating you about NCI's presence and planned activities at the AACR 2017 Annual Meeting

Today at AACR

Attend Sessions Featuring NCI Staff Utilizing "Normal" Genomic Data from the GTEx Project in Cancer Research  NCI-Sponsored Session 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Marriott Marquis Ballroom 3-4, Meeting Level 2 Funding Opportunities for Cancer Research at Multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutes and Centers with NIH ExpertsNIH-Sponsored Session 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Marriott Marquis Ballroom 3-4, Meeting Level 2 Meet the Director and Staff of the NCI-Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. AACRcentral (Booth 1125), MICR Resource Center, Lower Level Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property: Career Opportunities for Researchers NIH-Sponsored Session 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Marriott Marquis Ballroom 3-4, Meeting Level 2 E-cigarettes: Are they a Public Health Threat or a Useful Cessation Tool? 1:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Room 201, Level 2, Washington Convention Center NCI Cross-Disciplinary Programs Supporting Integrated Cancer Research NCI-Sponsored Session 2:45 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Marriott Marquis Ballroom 3-4, Meeting Level 2 Adoptive Cellular Therapy for Cancer 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Ballroom A-B, Level 3, Washington Convention Center Transcriptional Regulation in Cancer Cells 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. East Salon C, Level 1, Washington Convention Center Novel Approaches for Experimental Therapeutics 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Room 144, Level 1, Washington Convention Center The Importance of Mentorship, Organized by the Associate Member Council (AMC) 3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. AACRcentral (Booth 1125), Lower Level NCI's Provocative Questions Initiative: Objectives, Outcomes, Lessons Learned NCI-Sponsored Session 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Marriott Marquis Ballroom 3-4, Meeting Level 2 Visit NCI in booth #1407   Meet the Expert sessions start at 9:30 a.m.  9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Tanya Agurs-Collins, Susan Czajkowski Opportunities for Health Behavior Research: Energy Balance, Cancer Prevention, and Control 10:15 - 10:45 a.m. Damali Martin, Tram K. Lam Epidemiologic Research in Understudied Populations 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. Tony Dickherber Cancer Moonshot Technology Development 11:45 - 12:15 p.m. Anil Wali Geographic Management of Cancer Health Disparities Program 12:30 - 1:00 p.m. Michael Salgaller, John Hewes How NCI Can Facilitate Your Technology Development and Serve as a Commercialization Partner 1:15 - 1:45 p.m. Sudhir Srivastava, Sharmistha Ghosh-Janjigian Pancreatic Cancer Detection Consortium 2:00 - 2:15 p.m. Aniruddha Ganguly Cancer Biomarker Assay Development & Funding Opportunities: A Cancer Diagnosis Program Initiative  2:15 - 2:30 p.m. Katherine Ferry-Galow NCI Pharmacodynamics Biomarker Program 2:45 - 3:00 p.m. Igor Kuzmin Translational Research at the National Cancer Institute: Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPOREs) 3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Libin Jia NCI Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine Programs 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Sonia Jakowlew The NCI K22 Transition Career Development Award: Facilitating Independence for Mentored Cancer Research Investigators 4:15 - 4:45 p.m. Michele McGuirl The New NCI Predoc to Postdoc Transition Award Here's your chance to learn more about NCI initiatives and programs. Check out the schedule here and plan to attend these popular sessions!    Visit our interactive kiosks Stop by booth kiosks to connect with NCI scientific and program staff. This year, our featured kiosks are: Precision Medicine Cancer Biology Genomics & Strategic Initiatives Cancer Prevention Training Opportunities Cancer Disparities Small Business Innovative Research Development Cancer Causes & Control Technology Development & Partnerships Funding & Grants  Cancer Moonshot   Cancer Close Up The images collected here as part of the 2017 NCI Cancer Close Up project exemplify NCI-supported research into how nanoscale materials and devices can improve the way cancer is studied, detected, prevented, and treated. Stop by the NCI exhibit booth to see many of these large-scale microscopy images on colorful display.