EDRN Reference Set Call

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Present (Attendees at meeting in BOLD):

NCI: Guillermo Marquez, Indu Kohaar, Christos Patriotis, Matt Young 

DMCC: Ziding Feng, Jackie Dahlgren, Royce Malnik, Yingye Zheng

GI:

• Colon: MD Anderson: Robert Bresalier (Chair)
• Pancreas: NYU Langone: Anirban Maitra
• University of Minnesota: Tim Church

Lung:

• Vanderbilt: Stephen Deppen (Co-chair)
• Boston University: Marc Lenburg
• Meso Scale Diagnostics: Martin Stengelin
• University of California, Los Angeles: Tran Linh

Prostate:

• Eastern Virginia Medical School: John Semmes
• Johns Hopkins: Hui Zhang
• University of Michigan: Javed Siddiqui

Breast/GYN:

• Arizona State University: Karen Anderson
• Massachusetts General Hospital: Steven Skates
• Johns Hopkins: Zhen Zhang
• Meso Scale Diagnostics: Martin Stengelin

Current Action Items:

1. ONGOING: The Committee will send an approval letter for Stacy Malaker and a response letter to William Hsu explaining why the LTP2 specimens can’t be released to him yet.
2. Prostate Discovery Set: Liang Zhao: Robert Bresalier will send a response letter to him regarding his application.
3. DONE: Minutes for June: Royce Malnik will update the attendance list to include Zhen Zhang and remove Sanford Stass from members’ list. She will also review the recording to find out if Amanda Paulovich was aware that she completed the wrong application. The minutes were updated.
4. Participation by All Working Group: Robert Bresalier will email the working group and remind those who don’t attend the calls to make a point to attend in the future.

Discussion:

• Minutes for June: Royce Malnik will update the attendance list to include Zhen Zhang and remove Sanford Stass from members’ list. She will also review the recording to find out if Amanda Paulovich was aware that she completed the wrong application.
• Pancreatic Reference Set/Pilar Navarro Medrano: Zhen Zhang asked for a 2D scatter plot of their markers and CA19-9.
• Prostate Discovery Set: Liang Zhao: The applicant must respond to the group’s questions—won’t approve without reasonable data analysis plan and sample size justification in place. Application must come back to the Working Group for review. Robert Bresalier will reply to his request.
• Participation by All Working Group Members: Robert Bresalier will email the working group and remind those who don’t attend the calls to make a point to attend in the future.

Next Call: Wednesday, August 5, 2026 at 8 a.m. Pacific/11 a.m. Eastern. If there are no new applications or other items to discuss, we will cancel the call.