Please join us in chicago for the Asia Cohort Consortium Working Group Meeting on April 15, 2018.

 

Meeting Overview

The purpose of this meeting is to  discuss progress in research projects in the ACC and potential collaborations. 

 

Registration :

Please fill out the online registration form by March 28, 2018.

Anyone who is interested in conducting research in the ACC is welcome to attend. 

 

Meeting Details :

Date/Time

Sunday, April 15, 2018,  20:00– 22:00

 

Venue  

Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Hotel 

LEVEL 2
Room: Clark Room  

2233 South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Chicago, IL 60616-9985
Phone: (312) 567-1234

Hotel Website: https://mccormickplace.regency.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html

 

Working Group Meeting Program :

 

8:00	Welcome and Introduction	Wei Zheng
8:10	Update of ACC Coordinating Center	Eiko Saito/Md. Shafiur Rahman
8:20	ACC   Project reports (5 minutes for each presentation)
	・Education and total and cause-specific mortality	Keming Yang
	・Tea/coffee consumption and lung cancer risk	Jingjing Zhu
	・Update of the smoking and diabetes projects	Wei Zheng
	・Status of lung cancer studies	Qing Lan
	・Status of lymphoma/leukemia studies	Nathaniel Rothman/Bryan Bassig
	・Alcohol drinking and mortality/disease burden	Paulo Boffetta
	・International Liver Cancer Epidemiology Consortium (ILCEC)	Paulo Boffetta
	・Coffee consumption and endometrial cancer risk	Motoki Iwasaki
	・Hormonal/reproductive factors and endometrial cancer risk	Motoki Iwasaki
9:00	Lung Cancer exome sequencing project in Asians	Qiuyin Cai
9:10	Asia Breast and Colorectal Cancer Genetic Consortia	Wei Zheng
9:20	Discussion and Closure

 

Hosted by：

Prof. Wei Zheng

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

 

Visa Information

Please email the ACC Coordinating Center (cc@asiacohort.org) for an invitation letter for your visa.