Thank you to all the meeting organizers, presenters, moderators, and participants who attended the 2025 I-SCORE Meeting on March 27th! With 82 in person attendants and 48 virtual attendants, This meeting provides a great opportunity for information-sharing and collaboration between DCP staff, program staff, and Consortia/CP-CTNet members. Highlights from the program include:
- Dr. Leslie Ford, Associate Director for Clinical Research at NCI, kicked off the meeting and welcomed participants and presenters to I-SCORE 2025.
- Dr. Philip Castle, Director of the Division of Cancer Prevention, presented his vision for cancer prevention.
- Dr. Eva Szabo, Chief of the Lung and Upper Aerodigestive Cancer Research Group, provided an overview of the CP-CTNet Program. For CP-CTNet, Dr. Szabo reviewed active studies, infrastructure, and logistics.
- Dr. Meredith Shiels, Senior Investigator in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute, presented Trends in Cancer Incidence and Mortality Rates in Early Onset and Later Onset Cancer in the U.S.
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The following speakers gave Clinical Trial Reports
- Dr. Juan Chipollini, University of Arizona
- Dr. Maria Iniesta-Donate , MD Anderson
- Dr. Arjun Pennathur, University of Pittsburgh (University of WI LAO)
- Dr. Carol Fabian, University of Kansas (University of MI LAO)
- Dr. Ajay Bansal, University of Kansas (Northwestern University LAO)
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Clinical Trial Reports and Enhancing Recruitment and Operations topics were highlighted by the following:
- Dr. Seema Khan, Northwestern University
- Amy Carrier, RN and Amy Selegue, BSN
- Dr. KyungMann Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Sue Siminski, Frontier Science
Feedback was very positive, and many were excited to have the opportunity to be in person once again. View the agenda from this meeting: https://events.cancer.gov/dcp/iscore We are looking forward to next year’s I-SCORE Meeting which will be held on March 26, 2026 to March 27, 2026. Check the Meetings and Events page for upcoming information regarding the 2026 meeting when it becomes available!
