Biomedical Informatics Without Borders: From Collaboration to Implementation

A Joint Conference of the U.S. National Cancer Institute and the U.K. National Cancer Research Institute Informatics Initiative

This is the 3rd successive year of the joint conference. Like every year, the conference will showcase the close collaboration of the two programmes to develop interoperable tools and technologies and provide an update on their progress and current status. With both projects well into their implementation phase, the focus this year will be on sharing experiences, addressing obstacles and showing the way forward to facilitate biomedical research and deliver personalised cancer medicine.

The conference is free to attend

Meeting Programme

Thursday 10 September

 
9:00am – 9:30am
Registration and Coffee
9:30am – 9:40am
Welcome Address

Jane Cope, PhD

    Administrative Director
National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI), UK
9:40am – 10:20am
Opening Plenary - Progress Update
9:40am – 10:00am  

Ken Buetow, PhD

    Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Information Technology; Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
10:00am – 10:20am  

Sir Kenneth Calman, FRSE, PhD, BSc, FRCP, FRCS(Ed), FRCGP

    Chair, National Cancer Research Institute
10:20am – 12:30pm
Implementation Challenges : ineroperability & integration
10:20am – 10:40am Standards that influence Semantic Interoperability

Brian Davis, PhD

    VCDE Workspace Lead
caBIG® VCDE Workspace Lead National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
10:40am – 11:00am caDSR Evolution: A Semantic Infrastructure for Decentralized Collaboration and Research

Denise B. Warzel, BBA

    Associate Director, Core Infrastrure Program
Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)
National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
11:00pm – 11:15pm
Break
 
11:15am – 11.35am Interoperability: Certification and Security

Alan Hogg, PhD

    Section Head - Platform Development, Informatics Initiative
National Cancer Research Insitute (NCRI), UK"
11:35am – 12:10pm Towards ontology-driven querying and data integration of cancer-research data

Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, PhD &

    Research Associate
University College London, UK
   

Joshua Phillips

    Vice President, Software Development and Engineering SemanticBits, USA
12:10pm – 12:30pm Enterprise Architecture -- The CBIIT "Version 2" Strategy, Methodology, and Results

Charles Mead, M.D., M.Sc.

    Chief Technology Officer Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)
National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Lunch
 
1:30 – 3:30pm
Implementation Experiences
 
1:30pm – 2:00pm Title to be confirmed

George Komatsoulis, PhD

    Deputy Director Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
2:00pm – 2:30pm Deployment of a data and information portal for cancer research – the NCRI ONIX experience

Stuart Bell, PhD

    Section Head, Community Alliances, Informatics Initiative
National Cancer Research Institute
2:30pm – 3:00pm e-Infrastructure: an example of an implementation of interoperable infrastructure worldwide

Maria Ramalho-Notario 

    Project Officer
Research infrastructures Unit, European Commision
3:00pm – 3:30pm Production Grid Infrastructure in Europe: Current Practice and Future Plans

Steven Newhouse, PhD

    Technical Director, Enabling Grids for E-sciencE Project CERN
3:30pm – 3:45pm
Break and Poster Viewing
 
3:45pm – 4:15pm BioGrid Australia - 2003 to 2009
The Australian Implementation Experience & Opportunity

Rob Merriel

    Director BioGrid Australia, Australia
4:15pm - 4:45pm Transforming Cancer Control: Using Cyberinfrastructure to Support Population Science in Cancer

Bradford W. Hesse, PhD

    Chief Cancer Control and Population Sciences
National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
4:45pm - 5:30pm Panel Discussion  
5:30pm – 7.30pm
Opening Reception, with Technology Demonstrations and Poster Viewing
     

Friday, September 11

 
7:30am – 8:30am
Breakfast and Poster Viewing
 
8:30am – 9.30am
Plenary - Implementing Personalised medicine through  IT
8:30am – 9.00am The ATHENA Breast Health Network: A Blueprint of Personalized Medicine

Laura Esserman, MD, MBA

    Director, Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center; Professor of Surgery and Radiology; Director, Translational Informatics
University of California, San Francisco, USA
9:00am – 9.30am Title to be confirmed

Professor Sir Alex Markham, BSc, PhD, DSc, FRSC, CChem, MBBS, HonMD (Leeds), HonDMedSci (Manchester), HonDUniv (Stirling), FRCP, FRCPath, FMedSci.

    Professor of Medicine
University of Leeds, UK
9:30am – 9:45am
Break
 
9:45am – 10:45am
Concurrent Sessions
 
  Track 1: Clinical and Translational Research   
  The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Data Portal

Carl Schaefer, PhD

    Director, Biomedical Informatics
Center for Bioinformatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
  Organisation, integration and mining of complex cancer datasets

Claude Chelala, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Cancer Bioinformatics
Barts & The London School of Medicine (QMUL), UK
  Open discussion  
  Track 2: Progress on Global Standards for Medical Research 
  Title to be confirmed

Helen Parkinson, PhD

    Production Coordinator, ArrayExpress EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
  Building a Data Standards Foundation for Personalized Health Care

Greg Downing, MD, PhD

    Project Director, Personalised Healthcare Initiative Department of Health and Human Services, USA
  Open discussion  
10:45am – 11:00am
Break
 
11:00am – 12:00pm
Workshops
 
  Workshop 1 - caBIG® Tools   
  Workshop 2 - Data Sharing: Research Culture, Funder Requirements, and Regulatory and Ethical Considerations
12:00pm – 1:30pm
Poster discussion session & Working lunch
 
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Empowering the cancer community
 
  Realising the value of existing data to maximise opportunities for the cancer research community

Janet Valentine, PhD

    Head of Partnership Initiatives
Medical Research Council (MRC), UK
  Co-ordinating the Patient Voice in UK Cancer Research

Dave Ardron

    Chair, Consumer Liaison Group
National Cancer Research Institute, UK
  A Survivor’s Perspective on Personalized Medicine

Diane Paul

  How International Collaboration and Technical Support Can Change the Future for Cancer Patients Patient Advocate National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA
2:30pm – 2:45pm
Break
 
2:45pm – 3:45pm
New  methods of communication and collaboration around research
2:45pm – 3:10pm Exploring a collaborative informatics framework for translational research between two Breakthrough Breast Cancer Centers

Anita Grigoriadis, PhD

    Research Fellow, Breast Cancer Bioinformatics, Breakthrough Breast Research Unit, Guy’s Hospital / King’s College London, UK
3:10pm – 3:30pm myExperiment: where work flows

Carole Goble, PhD

    Professor of Computer Science University of Manchester, UK
3:30pm – 3:50pm Triple your Knowledge: from publishing papers to publishing Semantic Web statements

Barend Mons, PhD

    Associate Professor in Bio-Semantics University of Rotterdam, Netherlands
3:50 – 4:00pm
Closing and Announcement of Poster Prize Winners
NCRI Informatives Initiative caBIG NCRI National Cancer Institute