Minutes to EDRN Steering Committee Meeting 2026-04-15
EDRN Bi-Monthly Steering Committee Call
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
3:30 p.m. ET/2:30 pm CT/1:30 pm PT
Present (in BOLD):
- Chair: Arul Chinnaiyan, University of Michigan
- Co-Chair: Karen Anderson, Arizona State University
- NCI: Sudhir Srivastava, Felicia Evans-Williams, Sidney Fu, Nick Hodges, Indu Kohaar, Amit Kumar, Guillermo Marquez, Altaf Mohammed, Christos Patriotis, Angela Petruzzelli, Neeraj Saxena, Wendy Wang, Matt Young
- NIDCR: Zhong Chen
- Arizona State University: Josh LaBaer
- Baylor: Fasiha Kanwal, Erich Sturgis
- Boston University: Marc Lenburg, Jennifer Beane-Ebel, Erin Kane
- Case Western Reserve University: Sanford Markowitz
- City of Hope: Cristian Tomasetti
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: Sapna Syngal
- Eastern Virginia Medical School/Old Dominion University: John Semmes
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center: Jackie Dahlgren, Ruth Etzioni, Ziding Feng, William Grady, Christopher Li, Royce Malnik, Amanda Paulovich, Lesley Wilkerson, Cecilia Yeung, Yingye Zheng
- George Washington University: Laura Rozek
- Icahn School of Medicine Mt. Sinai: Pei Wang
- JPL: Daniel Crichton, Heather Kincaid
- Johns Hopkins University: Daniel Chan, Ie-Ming Shih, David Sidransky, Victor Velculescu, Hui Zhang, Zhen Zhang
- Lynx, DX: John Kitchen
- Massachusetts: Steven Skates, Alan Cha
- Meso Scale: Anu Mathew, Martin Stengelin, Mingyue Wang
- Moffitt: Antonio Amelio, Anna Giuliano, John Heine, Julie Rathwell, Matt Schabath
- NIDCR: Zhong Chen, Amanda Melillo
- NIST: Hua-Jun He
- New York University: Anirban Maitra, Harvey Pass, Leopoldo Segal
- PNNL: Tao Liu
- University of California, Los Angeles: William Hsu, Mike Palazzolo
- University of California, San Diego: Ludmil Alexandrov, Silvio Gutkind, Scott Lippman University of California, San Francisco: Fatemeh (Flora) Momen Heravi
- University of Colorado: Sachin Wani
- University Health Network: Thomas Kislinger
- University Hospitals/Cleveland Medical Center: Amitabh Chak
- University of Illinois, Chicago: Xiaowei Wang
- University of Maryland: Sanford Stass
- University of Michigan: Neehar Parikh, Steve Chinn
- University of North Carolina: Nicholas Shaheen
- University of Nebraska: Surinder Batra, Brittney Dickey
- University of Pittsburgh: Randall Brand, James Herman, Robert Schoen, Christine Worthington
- University of Toledo: James Willey
- University of Texas MD Anderson: Robert Bast, Robert Bresalier, Sam Hanash, Leo Lei, Anirban Maitra, Ed Ostrin, David Wilson
- University of Texas Southwestern: Amit Singal
- University of Washington: William Grady, Andy Hoofnagle, Savannah Partridge
- Washington University: Hua Li
- Vanderbilt: Stephen Deppen, Eric Grogan, Michael Kammer, Jeff Tosoian
- Yale University: Sara Pai, Abhijit Patel
Discussion
Action Items from this call:
- DONE: NIH Priorities: This document outlines what the priorities of the NIH are and the ways it impacts the review and funding of grants. https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/nih-director/statements/advancing-nihs-mission-through-unified-strategy
- DONE: AACR: Steering Committee Members will send presentation titles, panel assignments and poster information to the EDRN DMCC at edrndmcc@fredhutch.org
Minutes to February Call: Approved as written.
CSRN: Karen Anderson said that transdisciplinary representation is needed for this group. There are 8 EDRN members that are members of this group, and Ziding Feng, Ruth Etzioni, and James Herman are already members of CSRN.
15th EDRN Scientific Workshop, Wednesday-Friday, September 23-25, 2026: Volunteers to plan this event are needed. A theme and an agenda based on that theme need to be created. Some nominations for a theme are multimodality, translation to clinical practice, etc.
AACR—Steering Committee Members need to send their presentation titles, panel assignments and poster information to the DMCC at edrndmcc@fredhutch.org
Upcoming EDRN Meetings:
- Fall, 2026 EDRN 15th Scientific Workshop: Wednesday-Friday, September 23-25, 2026.
- Spring 2027 March 3-5, 2027, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
Early Career Investigator Working Group Update: There has been no activity with this group for quite a while. It was suggested that we should consider funding pilot studies for early career investigators to motivate more participation.
Next Call: Wednesday, August 19th at 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT