August 2014 Newsletter

Clinical Trial Working Groups

Goal for 2014: One concept from each institution. To date, 14 concepts have been received from 10 institutions! Concepts in the current BTCRC pipeline are outlined below.

GU:

Approved LOI: Renal cell carcinoma (Illinois).
Concept: Prostate (Indiana).
Co-chairs: Mark Stein (Rutgers), Ajjai Alva (Michigan).
Next call: Friday, Sept. 12 at 9:30 a.m. ET / 8:30 a.m. CT.

Thoracic:

Concept: Non-small cell lung cancer (Indiana).
Concept: Non-small cell lung cancer (Michigan).
Concept: Small cell lung cancer (Nebraska).
Co-chairs: Arkadiusz Dudek (Illinois), Nasser Hanna (Indiana).
Next call: Thursday, Oct. 9 at
3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. CT.

GI:

Approved LOI: Hepatocellular (Indiana).
Concepts in process (not yet presented to CTWG): Esophageal (Iowa), colorectal (Wisconsin).
Co-chairs: Al B. Benson III (Northwestern), Salma Jabbour (Rutgers).
Next call: Thursday, Sept. 11 at 10 a.m. ET / 9 a.m. CT.

Breast:

Concept: Triple negative metastatic breast cancer (Penn State).
Concept: Triple negative metastatic breast cancer (Rutgers).
Concept in process (not yet presented to CTWG): ER+ and/or PR+ and HER2- breast cancer (Illinois).
Co-chairs: Deborah Toppmeyer (Rutgers), Kari Wisinski (Wisconsin).
Next call: Wednesday, Sept. 10 at 3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. CT.

Next working groups to form: GYN and melanoma.

Please contact Jessica Roy, research development director, at [email protected] or 317-634-5842 ext. 19, to join a clinical trial working group or submit a concept.

BTCRC Q&A: Contracting

Big Ten CRC Administrative Headquarters continues our Q&A series covering topics of interest to our member institutions. This month, we address the following questions related to contracting:

From a contracts perspective, what does a Big Ten institution need to do to open as a site in a BTCRC study?
How does the overall study funding contract work?
Will the studies require any other types of contracts?
How can a site help keep the contracting process moving?

Read our full Q&A here.

Featured Member Profile

Learn about the Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, our featured member for August, in this conversation with the cancer institute's director, Raymond J. Hohl, MD, PhD. Read more.

AACI/CCAF Meeting: Oct. 27

The Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium will host a meeting for Big Ten cancer center directors and administrators during the Association of American Cancer Institutes and Cancer Center Administrators Forum on Monday, Oct. 27, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. CDT, at the Westin Chicago River North. (See map.)

Directors and administrators planning to attend: Please RSVP to Georgia Gould at [email protected] or call 317-643-5842, ext. 10.

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