The Asia Cohort Consortium

ACC Meetings

September 2018, General Membership Meeting in Nagoya, Japan

Please join us in Nagoya for the Asia Cohort Consortium General Membership Meeting on September 4 and 5, 2018.

Please note that a typhoon is approaching Nagoya and is expected to come closest on September 4^th afternoon.

https://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/

The ACC General Membership Meeting will be held as scheduled and the dinner will be also held according to the plan. Since we expect heavy rain around 18:00PM on September 4^th, the Aichi Cancer Center has arranged a bus to travel from the meeting venue to the restaurant after the meeting.

However, please check the weather forecast now and then, and please make your best judgement when or whether to attend the meeting. Your safety is most important for us.

If you have any trouble accessing the meeting venue on September 4^th, or if you have changed your plan, please contact cc@asiacohort.org.

The emergency phone number at Aichi Cancer Center in Nagoya is available from 9AM on September 4th.

(+81) (0)52 764 9828

Meeting Overview:

The purpose of this meeting is to update members on ACC developments, including cohort progress and cross-cohort activities, and discuss advances in the field which further the ACC mission.

Meeting Details:

Date and Time;

Sep.4 9:00-12:00 Excecutive Committee Meeting (only EC members)

14:00-17:30 General Membership Meeting

Sep.5 9:00-12:30 General Membership Meeting

13:30-15:30 Working Group Meeting (TBD)

Venue;

Aichi Cancer Center International Conference Hall

1-1 Kanokoden, Chikusa-ku Nagoya 464-8681, Japan

http://www.pref.aichi.jp/cancer-center/english/cc/access.html

Registration:

Please click here and fill out the online registration form.

Anyone who is interested in the ACC meeting and its projects is welcome to attend.

Meeting Program:

Time	Topic	Presenter
SEP.4
9:00-12:00	Executive Committee meeting	Executive Committee
13:30-14:00	Registration
14:00-14:15	Welcome Message Introduction & opening remarks	Takashi Takahashi Keitaro Matshuo
14:15-14:45	Cohort Updates	Cohort PIs
14:45-:15:00	Update of the ACC Coordinating Center	Manami Inoue, Eiko Saito, Md. Shafiur Rahman
15:00-15:40	Early-Life and Young Adult Exposures and Cancer & Opportunities for Research Funding	Somdat Mahabir
15:40-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:10	New Korean cohort study	Sue K. Park
16:15-17:15	Progress in ACC research
16:15-16:25	Tea and coffee drinking and lung cancer risk	Xiao-Ou Shu
16:30-16:40	Update of the smoking and diabetes projects	Wei Zheng
16:45-17:15	Outdoor air pollution and non-communicable diseases	George Downward
17:15-17:30	Discussion and announcement

SEP.5
8:30-9:00	Registration
9:00-10:05	Progress in ACC research
9:00-9:10	BMI and risk of biliary tract cancer in Asian populations	Isao Oze
9:15-9:25	BMI, smoking, alcohol drinking and multiple myeloma risk	Tomotaka Ugai
9:30-9:40	Association between BMI and colorectal cancer mortality and incidence	Hung Luu, Xiao-ou Shu
9:45-9:55	Diabetes mellitus and gastric cancer incidence among Asian populations	Minkyo Song
10:00-10:25	Family history and risk of colorectal cancer for the Asian population Family history and mortality of colorectal cancer for the Asian population	Lin Zhang
10:30-10:40	International Liver Cancer Epidemiology Consortium	Paolo Boffetta
10:40-10:50	Coffee break
10:50-11:00	Guide for Ramen and Kakigori (shaved ice) in Nagoya	Hidemi Ito, Yoshiaki Usui
10:05-11:15	New proposals
	DNA methylation and its impact on inter-population differences in disease risk and prognosis Meta-analysis of Epigenome-wide Association Study for T2D, CVD and intermediate metabolic traits	Marie Loh
11:20-12:00	ACC terms and conditions and election	EC members
12:00-12:30	General discussion and closing remarks
12:30-13:30	Lunch (on site)
13:30-15:30	Working Group Meeting (TBD)

Group Dinner:

Please enjoy the dinner at the restaurant near the Nagoya Castle. Please click here for the details and access.

Time：September 4, 18:30～　（after the meeting）

Place：Shiromachi Grill https://sr-grill.com/

Please note that Aich Cancer Center has arranged a bus to travel from the meeting venue to the restaurant in the evening of September 4th.

Call for Project Proposals:

We invite new project proposals to be considered at our September 2018 meeting. Submitted proposals will be sent to the Executive Committee (EC) for initial review, and the ones that are deemed scientifically sound will be slated for review at the General Membership Meeting. For more details on proposal submission, please click here.

Proposals that do not follow this format will be returned to the author for resubmission.

Project proposals should be emailed to the Coordinating Center by August 18, 2018.