The First ECICC Community MicroLab on Cancer Challenges and Advanced Computing was held on June 11, 2019!

• What is a MicroLab? MicroLabs are 60-90 minute, highly interactive, virtual events. Unlike webinars which are focused on disseminating information, the purpose of µLabs is to facilitate stimulating scientific discussions in smaller more intimate virtual breakout groups.

• A multi-disciplinary group of over 200 scientists participated in our first virtual, ECICC Community MicroLab on June 11, 2019!

• The MicroLab focused on the four cancer challenge areas developed by attendees of the Envisioning Computational Innovations for Cancer Challenges (ECICC) Scoping Meeting held in March 2019.

• Download MicroLab Recording 

NOW AVAILABLE! Breakout Discussion Notes (VIEW)

•  Review notes from all of the breakout groups and add your ideas, comments, suggestions, and recommendations.

• Add your voice and your ideas to help develop NEW, compelling questions and help shape the vision for the future!

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MicroLab Presentations 

• Download the comprehensive meeting presentation (including Origin of the MicroLab) 

• The presentations of the 4 cancer challenge areas are available below, along with the list of Team Leads:

• Generating Large-Scale Synthetic Data to protect Personally Identifiable Information (DOWNLOAD)

  • Nick Anderson, University of California, Davis (Presenter)

  • Bill Richards, Brigham And Women's Hospital / Harvard University 

• Using Machine Learning for Iterative Hypothesis Generation (DOWNLOAD)

  • Jeremy Goecks, Oregon Health and Science University

  • Amber Simpson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Presenter)

• Creating a Cancer Patient “Digital Twin” to optimize personalized treatment decision-making (DOWNLOAD)

  • Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Stanford University (Presenter)

  • Paul Macklin, Indiana University (Presenter)

  • Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, IBM (Presenter)

  • Ilya Shmulevich, Institute for Systems Biology

• Developing Adaptive Cancer Treatments targeting unique tumor characteristics and trajectories (DOWNLOAD)

  • John McPherson, University of California, Davis (Presenter)

  • Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory

Additional Information:

• Download the summary write-ups of the 4 cancer challenge areas from the Scoping Meeting

If you are interested in learning more -- or joining -- our multidisciplinary community, please contact ECICCcommunity@nih.gov