Cancer Genomics and Biology 2015 – Meeting Report
Louis WC. Chow1,2,3, Luis Costa4, Bin-Tean Teh5, Da-Qiang Li6, Gu Feng7, Xin-Yuan Guan8, Asha Nair9, Li Zhu10, Masahiro Sugimoto11, Amit Dutt12, Masakazu Toi13,14, Sudeep Gupta12, Rajendra Badwe12, Stefan Knapp15,16, M. Radhakrishna Pillai9 and Rakesh Kumar17,9
1 Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
2 Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, China
3 Organisation for Oncology and Translational Research, Hong Kong, China
4 Institute of Molecular Medicine, Hospital de Santa Maria – CHLN, Lisbon, Portugal
5 National Cancer Center Singapore, Singapore
6 Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center and Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai, China
7 Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin, China
8 University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
9 Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
10 Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
11 Institute for Advanced Biosciences at Keio University, Keio, Japan
12 Tata Memorial Centre, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer, Mumbai, India
13 Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
14 Organisation for Oncology and Translational Research, Kyoto, Japan
15 Structural Genomic Consortium, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
16 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany
17 School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Correspondence:
Louis WC. Chow, email:
Correspondence:
Rakesh Kumar, email:
Keywords: genome biology, transcriptome, epigenetics, cancer stem cells, cancer therapeutics
Received: December 30, 2015 Accepted: January 09, 2016 Published: January 14, 2016
Abstract
The Cancer Genomics and Biology 2015 meeting embodied a three way collaboration among colleagues from the Global Cancer Genomics Consortium (GCGC), the Unifaith Cancer Institute China and Jiujiang University of China. The meeting marks the fifth and the last meeting of GCGC, which was formed in 2010. Previous four GCGC meetings have been held at the Tata Memorial Center- Mumbai, Institute of Molecular Medicine-Lisbon, and Graduate Medical School Kyoto University-Kyoto. In contrast to the genomic themes of the previous meetings, the 2015 conference theme was at the interface of laboratory and translation research and emerging therapeutics as reflected in the shared interests of all three collaborative entities – Cancer Genomics and Biology 2015. This year’s conference was co-organized by the Jiujiang University at the Run Run Shaw building, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang City, China, on November 13 and 14, 2015. The conference attracted over 174 participants with 13 platform presentations. Scientific sessions included a plenary and five platform scientific sessions with themes ranging from biomarkers, stem cells and markers of the tumor microenvironment, proteomics and epigenetics, big data, to hormone and expression profiles. The meeting concluded with closing remarks by conference co-chairs emphasizing with the need to broaden membership across the globe, establishing priorities, and redrafting a white paper to launch a new consortium.
