Minutes from EDRN Biomarker Reference Labs Subcommittee 2026-10-15
Biomarker Reference Labs Subcommittee Call
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Present: Andrew Hoofnagle (Chair), Martin Stengelin (Co-chair), Bill Bulman, Daniel Chan, Rob Christenson, Sidney Fu, Jim Herman, William Hsu, Indu Kohaar, Royce Malnik, Guillermo Marquez, Anu Mathew, Hongzhang He, Hua-Jun He, Kristin Mullins, Mike Palazzolo, Brandon Park, Harvey Pass, Christos Patriotis, Leopoldo Segal, Steve Skates, Lori Sokoll, Stefani Thomas, James Tsay, Mingyue Wang, Wendy Wang, Lanbo Xiao, Cecilia Yeung, Hui Zhang
Discussion:
NCI Updates: Indu Kohaar mentioned that the EDRN Renewal work is ongoing.
Presentation:
- The University of Pittsburgh/University of Maryland team presented (James Herman, Robert Cristenson and Kristin Mullins). "Pittsburgh Baltimore Biomarker Characterization Center: Optimizing Ultrasensitive DNA methylation detection for lung cancer and other malignancies." The team took questions from the attendees.
This is the presentation schedule:
| Meeting Date | Site | Investigators |
|---|---|---|
| October 15, 2026 | University of Pittsburgh U Maryland | James Herman Robert Christenson |
| November 19, 2026 | Boston University/Veracyte UCLA SOE LungLIfe AI UCLA | BU-UCLA BCC's BRL--Dr. William Hsu, Dr. Bill Bulman and Dr. Matthew Brown |
| December 17, 2026 | NYU | Leopoldo Segal Harvey Pass |
| January 21, 2027 | Arizona State University/Meso Scale | Martin Stengelin |
| February 21, 2027 | Massachusetts General Hospital | Steven Skates |
| March 18, 2027 | University of Michigan | John Kitchen Jeffrey Tosoian Lanbo Xiao |
| April 15, 2027 | EVMS/UCLA | Paul Boutros |
| May 20, 2027 | Hopkins | Daniel Chan |
Please let Royce Malnik at the DMCC know at rmalnik@fredhutch.org if this schedule does not work for you.
Next Call: Thursday, November 19th at 12 pm Eastern/11 am Central/9 am Pacific—Dr. Matthew Brown from William Hsu's BRL is scheduled to present