The Second ECICC Community MicroLab on Cancer Challenges and Advanced Computing was held on September 25, 2019!

• What is a MicroLab? MicroLabs are 60-90 minute, highly interactive, virtual events. Unlike webinars which are focused on disseminating information, the purpose of MicroLabs is to facilitate stimulating scientific discussions in smaller more intimate virtual breakout groups.

• A multi-disciplinary group of over 100 clinicians, researchers, and academics in cancer and computational sciences participated in our second virtual, ECICC Community MicroLab on September 25, 2019!

• Building on the breakout discussions from the first MicroLab held in June 2019, participants developed use cases for real-life situations and then identified what research challenges need to be overcome. The use cases were based on various personae derived from the 4 cancer challenge areas developed at the Envisioning Computational Innovations for Cancer Challenges (ECICC) Scoping Meeting held in March 2019.

MicroLab Presentations:

• Download the meeting presentation
• List of Personae
• Use Cases

Presenters Included (partial list):

• MicroLab Origins

  • Emily Greenspan, National Cancer Institute

• Generating Large-Scale Synthetic Data to protect Personally Identifiable Information

  • Nick Anderson, University of California, Davis

  • Bill Richards, Brigham And Women's Hospital / Harvard University

• Using Machine Learning for Iterative Hypothesis Generation

  • Amber Simpson, Queen’s University 

• Creating a Cancer Patient “Digital Twin” to optimize personalized treatment decision-making

  • Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Stanford University

  • Paul Macklin, Indiana University

• Developing Adaptive Cancer Treatments targeting unique tumor characteristics and trajectories

  • John McPherson, University of California, Davis

• Use Case Demonstration

  • Paul Macklin, Indiana University

If you are interested in learning more -- or joining -- this multi-disciplinary community, please contact ECICCcommunity@nih.gov