Past Events

Cancelled as of January 27, 2025. This annual lecture, hosted by the MEB, honors the memory of Arthur Schatzkin, M.D., Dr.P.H., a visionary scientist, mentor, and leader in the field of nutritional epidemiology. Dr. Chan will present on Diet, the Gut Microbiome, and Colorectal Cancer. His research focuses on prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers. As a clinical gastroenterologist, Dr. Chan specializes in familial gastrointestinal cancer syndromes and cancer prevention.

In this event, Lawrence Ingrassia will discuss his newly published memoir, "A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery," with Sharon Savage. The memoir describes his family's moving experience with the inherited cancer-predisposition syndrome, Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, interwoven with a sweeping history of cancer research.

Gastric (stomach) cancer is a leading cause of death in the US. The aim of the Think Tank is to provide a forum for a multidisciplinary group of gastric cancer experts to review the state of the science and collaboratively identify critical knowledge gaps.

DCEG investigators are presenting at the 2024 AACR Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. See a list of presentations and posters.

A celebration of the career and accomplishments of Bob Hoover. Bob retired in 2020 after over four decades of service to the NCI. Learn about Bob in this article from June 2020. The afternoon will showcase Bob’s enormous scientific legacy and history of mentoring through a series of short talks by former fellows from DCEG and non-DCEG experts.

This series of virtual workshops will bring together those that are interested in sex and gender differences in cancer in the areas of basic biology, genomics, epigenetics, immunology, clinical/translational science, as well as population science, to not only learn about the latest research findings but to also identify gaps in our knowledge, identify potential collaborative opportunities, and learn best practices for methodology and reporting. The first session, on the topic of Basic Science: Biology & Genomics, will take place on February 22nd at 11:00AM-2:30PM ET.

Dr. Susan Hankinson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology; Associate Dean for Research, School of Public Health & Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, will visit DCEG as a Visiting Scholar.

Dr. Michael Pencina - Principles for development and evaluation of AI algorithms in health

Dr. Aiden Doherty - Using wearables to transform epidemiological research

Dr. Yan Li - Survey statistical methods to improve population representativeness of epidemiologic studies: applications to tracking COVID-19 and understanding health disparities