On February 25-26 & March 1, 2, and 5, 2021, NCI is hosting the 2021 Virtual Innovation Lab: “Modeling Emergent Cellular Behavior in Cancer.” This virtual workshop will bring experts together from a wide variety of fields to form new collaborations, ideate, and refine new projects related to dynamic cell-cell communication and emergent cellular behavior. Participants will have the opportunity to:

• contribute to a white paper aimed at shaping the direction of this developing research area,
• collaborate around innovative ideas with investigators from different fields, and
• observe opportunities for project proposal submissions across NIH and Federal agencies.  

Interested in participating? Applications are due by 3:00 a.m. ET (midnight PT) on Friday, December 11, 2020. Those encouraged to apply include but are not limited to researchers and clinicians at the principal investigator-level; cell and developmental biologists; systems biologists; evolutionary biologists; engineers; physical scientists; and computer scientists. For more information please visit the virtual workshop website.