The caBIG® Annual Meeting is for you and your colleagues to see how caBIG® tools will enhance your research, to learn how your peers are achieving productivity gains, and to voice your opinions on what you need in the future from caBIG® tools and technologies. Join other researchers, clinicians, and informaticians for this once yearly event!
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Highlights from the 2009 Annual Meeting
- Attendees included 1,000+ basic and clinical researchers, IT specialists, advocates and informaticians representing more than 300 organizations and 13 countries
- Visionary leaders such as Aneesh Chopra (U.S. Chief Technology Officer), Stephen Friend, M.D., Ph.D. (President & CEO, Sage Bionetworks), and Greg Simon, J.D. (Vice President of Worldwide Policy, Pfizer) talked about their vision for 21st Century Medicine.
- A new collaboration with the Love/Avon Army of Women was announced
- Directors from leading academic research institutions shared their progress in developing innovative research programs and described how caBIG® is supporting these efforts.
- Participants and speakers in India participated in an interactive videoconference focused on advancing international collaboration in cancer research
- More than forty demonstrations and interactive sessions took place.
- Read additional meeting highlights here.
Watch videos of the visionary leaders from government, industry, advocacy and research who spoke during the 2009 Annual Meeting plenary sessions.
- Ken Buetow, Ph.D. (Associate Director for Bioinformatics and Information Technology, NCI)
- Aneesh Chopra (U.S. Chief Technology Officer)
- Stephen Friend, M.D., Ph.D. (President & CEO, Sage Bionetworks)
- Susan Love, M.D. (President, Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation)
- Greg Simon, J.D. (Vice President of Worldwide Policy, Pfizer)
- Michael Caligiuri, M.D. (Director, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center)
- William Dalton, M.D., Ph.D. (President/Chief Executive Officer and Center Director, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute)
- H. Kim Lyerly, M.D. (Director, Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center)
- Louis Weiner, M.D. (Director, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center)
View other 2009 presentations, poster abstracts and tutorials
Listen to related podcasts on the new initiatives and concepts discussed at the 2009 meeting.
Read articles about the Annual Meeting in The Scientist, GenomeWeb, and other publications, that describe how participants are putting the wealth of caBIG® tools and infrastructure to work to foster collaboration and improve basic and clinical research.
Materials from Previous Annual Meetings
- 2009 Annual Meeting - July 20-22, 2009 (Washington, DC)
- 2008 Annual Meeting - June 23-25, 2008 (Washington, DC)
- 2007 Annual Meeting - February 5-8, 2007 (Washington, DC)
- 2006 Annual Meeting - April 9-11, 2006 (Arlington, VA)
- 2005 Annual Meeting - April 12-13, 2005 (Bethesda, MD)
- 2005 caBIG® Industry Partners Meeting - September 30, 2005 (Bethesda, MD)
- 2004 Kick Off Meeting - February 19, 2008 (Washington, DC)
Aneesh Chopra (U.S. Chief Technology Officer) speaks about his vision for quality, affordable healthcare.
Stephen Friend, M.D., Ph.D. (President & CEO, Sage Bionetworks) talks about the importance of interconnectivity.
Greg Simon, J.D. (Vice President of Worldwide Policy, Pfizer) highlights the challenges facing the biopharmaceutical industry.
