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Bangladesh Meeting Agenda

 

Agenda – ACC Meeting in Dhaka, Bangladesh
December 10 – 11, 2011

 Meeting Agenda

 Saturday:

     
8:30 – 10:00  EC Meeting (Bus will leave from the hotel at 7:45 AM)    
10:30 – 5:30  ACC General Meeting

Bus will leave from the hotel at 9:00 AM.

 
   10:30 – 11:00 Welcome and cohort updates  
   11:00 – 12:45 Updates from current projects  
    11:00 – 11:20:  Wei Zheng – BMI Project Phase II
11:20 – 11:40:  Paolo Boffetta – Small Intestine Cancer Project
11:40 – 12:00:  Rashmi Sinha & Jung Lee – Diet & Red Meat Project
12:00 – 12:20:  Yingsong Lin – Pancreatic Cancer Project
12:20 – 12:40: Manami Inoue – Low and Intermediate Rate Cancers Project
 
   12:45 – 2:00 Lunch  
   2:00 – 4:00 Presentations on topics of interest  
    2:00 – 2:15:  Prakash C. Gupta – Results from Mumbai Cohort
2:15 – 2:30:  Nunik Kusumawardani – Indonesia Cohort Study
2:30 – 2:45: Dewan Alam – Chronic Disease in Bangladesh
2:45 – 3:00: Eric Grant – Bladder Cancer in RERF
3:00 – 3:45: Habib Ahsan – Arsenic in Bangladesh and Use of Biosamples
3:45 – 4:00:  Ziding Feng – Funding Opportunities in the Early Detection Research Network (EDRN)
 
   4:00 – 4:30 Coffee Break  
   4:30 – 5:30 Presentation and discussion of new project ideas and future ACC structure  
    * New grant project ideas
* John Potter – biosamples and breast cancer
* Ying Qing Chen – Population Attributable Risk
* Ways to increase involvement of cohort PIs as project leads
* Biologic sample-based projects
* Data sharing
 
   6:30  Group Dinner -- Bus will take participants to dinner, hosted by Habib Ahsan  
       

 Sunday:

     
  9:00 – noon Working Group Meetings (Bus departure to be determined)  
   

* Diet
* BMI
* Rare, low and intermediate cancers, including pancreatic
 

 
  12:00 – 1:00 Lunch  
   1:00 – 3:00 Grant proposal brainstorming/work session