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