CTSC:TTIC.081908

The Cancer Imagine Program of NCI announces a new funding opportunity entitled “Quantitative Imaging for Evaluation of Responses to Cancer Therapies (U01)”. This cooperative agreement mechanism (PAR-08-225) is designed to promote research in quantitative imaging of tumor response to cancer therapies in clinical trial settings, with the overall goal of facilitating clinical decision making. The complete announcement can be found at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-225.html

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Action Items (details below)

Harvard Translational Imaging Consortium Meeting Minutes August 19, 2008

In Attendance (by T-con): NOT CONFIRMED

• Clare Tempany
• Bruce Rosen
• Gordon Williams
• Randy Gollub
• Bill Hanlon
• Bob Lenkinski

1. RSNA sponsored CTSC connection
Annick- ACRIN? anyone on yesterday's big group T-con?

2. Consultation Service
?? Emily Stern

3. Education Program
1) Randy reported on her August 5th meeting with Drs. Ware and Golan. There is no plan for creating any new training programs, rather, like us, the Education group is collating the huge number of existing training programs and working to facilitate cross program integration that will lower barriers for trainees to get more customized educational programs and greater access to existing resources. Dr. Golan's expectation for what we will deliver closely matched what Dr. Williams has already told us and what we are currently planning. That is, to offer broad educational content that will inform Clinical Translational investigators about current Imaging capabilities and how to access them. Randy's pitch to increase the number of trainees with specific expertise in Imaging statistics was appreciated and suggestions made for defining potential Junior Faculty recruitment opportunities as well as post-doctoral positions that could be jointly sponsored by the HSPH Statistics program and one or more of our Imaging groups.
2) CTSC could co-sponsor with NA-MIC a half-day Slicer 3 workshop on Medical Image data visualization and analysis to be held on Thursday 10/30/08 from 12 PM- 2PM at BWH and repeated at MGH on 11/06/08. 3) Follow up on the discussion from last week- any takers for the organizational scheme of disease driven sessions? How about for the plans articulated in our July 8 meeting (see those notes)?

4. Image Data Management and Shared Imaging Data
The updated Morphometry BIRN and NAMIC proposal for the CTSC Imaging Consortium and Informatics Core data management system will be ready in time for our next meeting.

5. Curation of Site resources