AHEAD Steering Committee Meeting
Tuesday March 3rd, 2026 - 2:00pm-6:00pm CT
Location: Onstead Auditorium, S3.8012 – Mitchell Building
| Time (Central Standard Time) | Title | Presenter | Number |
|---|---|---|---|
2:00 pm-2:10 pm |
Welcome |
Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque, DDS, PhD, NIDCR Acting Director Sudhir Srivastava, PhD, MPH, Senior Scientific Officer & Chief, Cancer Biomarkers Branch, National Cancer Institute |
N/A |
2:10 pm -2:15 pm |
Overview of AHEAD Program and AHEAD-EDRN Collaborations |
Zhong Chen, MD, PhD and Jason Wan, PhD, NIDCR and Wendy Wang, PhD, NCI |
N/A |
2:15 pm-2:22 pm 2:22 pm-2:25pm Q&A |
Group 1 |
Yu Leo Lei, PhD, DDS (University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center), Steven Chinn, MD, MPH, FACS (University of Pittsburgh), Thomas Wang, MD (University of Michigan) |
01 |
2:25 pm-2:32 pm 2:32 pm - 2:35 pm Q&A |
Group 2 |
Fatemeh Momen Heravi, DDS, PhD, MPH, MS (University of California San Francisco) |
02 |
2:35 pm - 2:42 pm 2:42 pm - 2:45 pm Q&A |
Group 3 |
Laura Rozek, PhD (Georgetown University), Maureen Sartor, PhD, Nisha D’Silva, BDS, MSD, PhD (University of Michigan) |
03 |
2:45 pm - 2:52 pm 2:52 pm - 2:55 pm Q&A |
Group 4 |
Sara Pai, MD, PhD (Yale University) |
04 |
2:55 pm-3:02 pm 3:02 pm-3:05 pm Q&A |
Group 5 |
Antonio Amelio, PhD, Anna Giuliano, PhD (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center) |
05 |
3:05 pm-3:12 pm 3:12 pm-3:15 pm Q&A |
Group 6 |
Hua Li, PhD, DABR, FAAPM (Washington University), Xiaowei Wang, PhD (University of Illinois Chicago) |
06 |
3:15 pm-3:22 pm 3:22 pm - 3:25 pm |
Group 7 |
Silvio Gutkind, PhD Ludmil Alexandrov, PhD, Scott Lippman, MD (University of California San Diego) |
07 |
3:40 pm - 5:45 pm Working Group Discussion Session
| Central Standard time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
3:40 pm-4:05 pm |
H&E biorepository—Pathology working group |
Lead: Sara Pai MD, PhD (Yale University) and Yu Leo Lei, PhD, DDS (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) |
4:05 pm-4:30 pm |
Generation of CDE |
Lead: Yu Leo Lei, PhD, DDS (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center), team members: Vidhya Venkateswaran, BDS, MPH, PhD, NIDCR |
4:30 pm-4:55 pm |
Spatial transcriptomics efforts |
Lead: Fatemeh Momen Heravi DDS, PhD, MPH, MS (University of California San Francisco) [human] and Silvio Gutkind, PhD, (University of California San Diego) [mouse] |
4:55 pm-5:20 pm |
Shared biospecimen protocols |
Lead: Laura Rozek, PhD (Georgetown University) and Antonio Amelio, PhD (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center) |
5:20 pm-5:45 pm |
Collaboration with EDRN lung group and funding opportunities |
Leaders: AHEAD Co-chairs and Guillermo Marquez, PhD, NCI |
5:45 pm-6:00 pm |
Summary |
Sara Pai, MD, PhD (Yale University) |