Events

The National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Clinical Proteomics Research (OCCPR) and Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) is pleased to announce the 2019 CPTAC Symposium, which offers an exciting opportunity to learn about the field of cancer proteogenomics and the strides in cancer research made by CPTAC investigators. 

Dr. Savova and Dr. Hochheiser will describe the DeepPhe system for extracting rich cancer phenotypes and its visual analytics platform.

The Human Genome Project was launched with the promise of revealing all of our genes, the “code” that would help explain our biology. The publication of the human genome in 2001 provided only a very rough answer to this question. For more than a decade following, the number of protein-coding genes steadily shrank, but the introduction of RNA sequencing revealed a vast new world of splice variants and RNA genes. Dr. Salzberg will review where we’ve been and where we are today, and will describe the use of an unprecedentedly large RNA sequencing resource to create a comprehensive new human gene catalog, containing thousands of novel genes and gene variants.

The Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine (ATOM) Consortium is accepting applications for their Cancer Drug Discovery Data Scientist Fellowship program. This virtual information session will give potential applicants an opportunity to ask questions about the fellowship program and the application process.

The National Cancer Policy Forum will hold a workshop to examine the social determinants of health in the context of cancer, and to consider opportunities to effectively leverage big data to improve health equity and reduce disparities.

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) will hold a pre-application webinar for the Informatics Technology for Cancer Research Education Resource Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) RFA-CA-19-042. The webinar will provide orientation to FOA and technical assistance to potential applicants by explaining goals and objectives for the FOA.

Dr. Rosen will present an overview of the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) and how the program has integrated with the NIH, grants management, and the researcher community.

This webinar will provide a brief overview of the Proteomic Data Commons (PDC), including how to navigate the PDC website and how to submit data to the commons.

Dr. Scotch will discuss NLM-funded projects related to the development and evaluation of a surveillance system that uses virus sequences to study the evolution, spread, and population size of viruses across geographic areas.

This webinar is intended for any organization that is currently submitting or is interested in submitting data to the NCI Genomic Data Commons (GDC) in support of data sharing.