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Integrated Cancer Research Center (ICRC) Symposium
"Big Data and Cancer"
AGENDA
9:00 a.m. - Coffee, fruit and pastries
9:15 a.m. - Welcoming remarks John McDonald
9:30-10:20 a.m. - John McDonald, Professor of Biological Sciences and Director, Integrated Cancer Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Title: The Utility of Big Data in Clinical and Basic Cancer Research: two case studies
10:25-11:15 a.m. - Adrian Lee, Professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, and Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh
Title: Large scale sequencing for precision cancer medicine
11:20 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. - Jon Duke, Director of the Center for Health Analytics and Informatics, Georgia Tech Research Institute and Faculty, College of Computing Georgia Tech
Title: Scaling Clinical Research in Oncology through Natural Language Processing and the OMOP Common Data Model
12:10-1:10 p.m. - Lunch provided (limited)
1:15-2:05 p.m. - Lincoln Stein, Head, Adaptive Oncology, OICR Chair, International Cancer Genome Consortium Executive Committee, International Scientific Steering
Committee and Data Coordination and Management Committee, Professor, Department of Molecular Genomics, University of Toronto
Title: The ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Project
2:10-3:00 p.m. - Han Liang, Associate Professor and Deputy Chair Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Associate Professor Department of Systems Biology
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Title: How to maximize the utility of big cancer genomic data
3:05-4:05 p.m. - Panel Discussion
4:10 p.m. - Closing remarks
