Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium (BTEC)
International Collaborative for Brain Tumor Epidemiology
Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions
June 30-July 3, 2012
Montpellier, France
Saturday Evening, June 30, 2012
6:00-8:00 Opening Reception, The Pullman Montpellier Antigone Hotel
Registration
Sunday, July 1, 2012
7:00-8:00 Breakfast, The Pullman Montpellier Antigone Hotel
8:00 Registration
8:15 Welcome from Conference Hosts
Session 1 Existing International Brain Tumor Consortia – how to leverage existing infrastructures for future studies?
Moderator: Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, PhD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
8:30-9:00 Gliogene consortium update
Melissa Bondy, PhD, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
9:00-9:30 Meningioma consortium update
Elizabeth Claus, MD, PhD, Professor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
9:30-10:00 Childhood brain tumors update – Mobi-kids and CEFALO
Maria Feychting, PhD and Elisabeth Cardis, PhD/Siegal Sadetzki, MD, PhD
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
Session 2 Opportunities for Further International Brain Tumor Collaborations – Need to know about Human Subjects rules, cancer registries and other resources
Luc Bauchet, MD, CHU of Montpellier, France
10:15-10:45 Cancer Registries in the US, Europe and Asia as a resource for recruitment – how investigators can use cancer registries for identifying subjects for epidemiology studies
Catherine Berens, PhD, International Agency for Research on Cancer
10:45-11:15 Human Subjects rules in US, Europe and Asia for biological samples and patient identifying information
Dennis Deapen, PhD, University of Southern California
11:15-11:45 Grant opportunities and Consortia in US, Europe and Asia for international collaborations on brain tumors
Daniela Seminara, PhD, US National Cancer Institute NCI and Catherine Berens, PhD, IARC
11:45-12:15 New Consortia: European Low Grade Glioma Network and oppportunities for other CNS tumor types
Luc Bauchet, MD, Emmanuel Mandonnet, MD and Hugues Duffau, MD, PhD, University Hospital of Montpellier
12:15-1:15 LUNCH
Session 3 Abstract Presentations (to be reviewed by Advisory Board and Program Committee
Moderator: Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, PhD and Margaret Wrensch, PhD
Junior InvestigatorAwards: Supported with a generous grant from the American Brain Tumor Association
1:15-1:35 To be announced
Awardee-non-US
1:35-1:55 To be announced
Awardee-US
Oral presentations based on selected abstracts
1:55–2:15 To be announced
Speaker
2:15-2:35 To be announced
Speaker
2:35-2:55 To be announced
Speaker
2:55-3:15 BREAK
Session 4 Working Group Session
3:15-4:00 Invited Speaker --- Brain Tumor Familial Syndromes, Beatrice Melin, MD, PhD
4:15-6:15 Individual Working Groups – Glioma GWAS and Special Populations (Barnholtz-Sloan, Dubrow, Rajaraman)
7:00 Dinner at the Historic Montpellier School of Medicine -- The Montpellier School of Medicine was created 800 years ago. One of its hidden treasures is its incredible Anatomy Museum created right after the French Revolution in 1794. It is comprised of four different areas with teratologic deformities, a large collection of skeletons and a unique display of wax models created by Felix Fontana from Florence, Italy. This visit will be a great opportunity to travel back in time and learn more about the Art of anatomy.
Monday, July 2, 2012
8:15-9:15 Breakfast, The Pullman Montpellier Hotel
Advisory Board Meeting
9:15-9:30 Announcements
9:30-12:00 Individual Working Groups
9:30-10:30 Post-GWAS (Jenkins and II’yasova)
10:30-12:00 Childhood Brain Tumors (Scheurer); Meningioma Risk Factors and Quality of Life (Claus)
12:00-1:15 Lunch
BTEC Business Meeting
1:30-2:15 Guest Keynote Lecture – Link between cancer systems biology and cancer epidemiology; to be announced
Session 5 Round Table Discussion
2:30- 4:30 Discussion; Elizabeth Claus, MD, PhD
Reports from Working Groups
Discussion about potential new International collaborations; international data sharing policies; IRBs and Ethic Boards
4:30-5:30 Future Directions – building new collaborative projects in brain tumors; Robert Jenkins, MD, PhD
7:00 Dinner in the Historic Section of Montpellier
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
7:00-8:00 Breakfast, The Pullman Montpellier Antigone Hotel