Minutes to EDRN Steering Committee Meeting 2025/04/16
EDRN Bi-Monthly Steering Committee Call
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
3:30 p.m. ET/2:30 pm CT/1:30 pm PT
Present (in BOLD):
- Chair: Arul Chinnaiyan, University of Michigan
- Co-Chair: Karen Anderson, Arizona State University
- NCI: Sudhir Srivastava,Felicia Evans-Long, Sidney Fu, Nick Hodges, Indu Kohaar, Amit Kumar, Guillermo Marquez, Richard Mazurchuk, Altaf Mohammed, Christos Patriotis, Angela Petruzzelli, Neeraj Saxena, Amanda Skarlupka, Wendy Wang, Matt Young
- Arizona State University: Josh LaBaer
- Baylor: Fasiha Kanwal, Erich Sturgis
- Boston University: Marc Lenburg, Jennifer Beane, Erin Kane
- Case Western Reserve University: Sanford Markowitz
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Sapna Syngal
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: Jackie Dahlgren, Ruth Etzioni, Ziding Feng, William Grady, Christopher Li, Royce Malnik, Amanda Paulovich, Lesley Wilkerson, Cecilia Yeung, Yingye Zheng
- George Washington University: Laura Rozek
- Icahn School of Medicine Mt. Sinai: Pei Wang
- JPL: Daniel Crichton, Heather Kincaid
- Johns Hopkins University: Daniel Chan, Ie-Ming Shih, David Sidransky, Victor Velculescu, Hui Zhang, Zhen Zhang
- Massachusetts: Steven Skates, Alan Cha
- Meso Scale: Anu Mathew, Martin Stengelin, Mingyue Wang
- Moffitt: Antonio Amelio, Anna Giuliano, John Heine, Julie Rathwell, Matt Schabath
- NIDCR: Zhong Chen, Amanda Melillo
- NIST: Hua-Jun He
- New York University: Harvey Pass, Leopoldo Segal
- PNNL: Tao Liu
- University of California, Los Angeles: William Hsu, Mike Palazzolo
- University of California, San Diego: Ludmil Alexandrov, Flora Momen Heravi
- University of Colorado: Sachin Wani
- University Health Network: Thomas Kislinger
- University Hospitals/Cleveland Medical Center: Amitabh Chak
- University of Illinois, Chicago: Xiaowei Wang
- University of Maryland: Sanford Stass
- University of Michigan: Neehar Parikh, Steve Chinn
- University of North Carolina: Nicholas Shaheen
- University of Nebraska: Surinder Batra, Brittney Dickey
- University of Pittsburgh: Randall Brand, James Herman, Christine Worthington
- University of Toledo: James Willey
- University of Texas MD Anderson: Robert Bast, Robert Bresalier, Sam Hanash, Leo Lei, Anirban Maitra, Ed Ostrin, David Wilson
- University of Texas Southwestern: Amit Singal
- University of Washington: William Grady, Andy Hoofnagle, Savannah Partridge
- Washington University: Hua Li
- Vanderbilt: Stephen Deppen, Eric Grogan, Michael Kammer, Jeff Tosoian
- Yale University: Sara Pai, Abhijit Patel
Discussion
Minutes to February 19th Call: Approved as written.
NCI Updates:
Travel Restrictions: NCI program staff are allowed to attend meetings and will be able to attend the EDRN Scientific Workshop in May.
Presentation: Dr. Steven Skates, Massachusetts General Hospital, “Genome-wide Methylation of Uterine Lavage in Women Undergoing Surgery for Suspected Ovarian Cancer (Progress Report).” Dr. Skates took questions from the Committee.
Upcoming EDRN Meetings
- 2025 Spring Workshop May 20-22 (Gaithersburg, MD). Since the dates of the event were changed, Sudhir Srivastava is asking that EDRN members use their social media to send information to the scientific community about this event. Cecilia Yeung reported that most of the original speakers confirmed that they can attend in May.
- 2025 Fall Steering Committee: September 17-19 in Seattle, WA
- 2026 Spring Steering Committee meeting: Date and Location TBD. Poll was sent to the Committee Members at https://strawpoll.com/3RnYXdEamye
Updates (5-10 min each)
- Reference Set Working Group: Robert Bresalier reported that the group met this month and reviewed several applications. He thinks the group is doing very well.
- Statistical Group Update: Yingye Zheng reported that Dr. Marc Ryser from Duke University presented at the last meeting in March. Ruth Etzioni will present at the next meeting.
- Early-stage Investigators No update.
Next Call: Wednesday, June 18th at 3:30 p.m. Eastern/2:30 p.m. Central/12:30 p.m. Pacific