IOTN Working Groups

The Immuno-Oncology Translational Network (IOTN) is a consortium to accelerate translation of basic discoveries to clinical applications to improve immunotherapy outcomes for both “hot” and “cold” cancers - and to prevent cancers before they occur. The implementation plan of the IOTN is to focus on leveraging the expertise and resources of a collaborative network to develop improved immunotherapy and immunoprevention approaches - including novel combinations. Towards this goal, the IOTN has formed a number of cross-cutting functional Working Groups to network across the IOTN with the broad goals to identify and address barriers to progress, and pioneer advances in the field.

 

NCI Computational Oncology Working Group
 
Co-Chair: Yi Xing, PhD - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Co-Chair: Riyue Bao, PhD - University of Pittsburgh
Co-Chair: Daoud Meerzaman, PhD - Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, NCI
 
Schedule: Meets virtually at 12:00 PM PT / 2:00 PM CT / 3:00 PM ET on the fourth Friday of each month.
 
Cross Network Working Group Jointly With CIMAC-CIDC
Immuno-Prevention Working Group
 
Chair: Shadmehr Demehri, MD, PhD - Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard
Co-Chair: Steven Lipkin, MD, PhD - Weill Cornell Medicine
 
 
Schedule: Meetings to occur tentatively on the first Thursday on a quarterly basis at 1:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM CT / 4:00 PM ET.
 
 
 
Immuno-Radiotherapy Working Group
 
Chair: Zachary Morris, MD, PhD - University of Madison - Wisconsin
Co-Chair: Khleif Samir, MD - Georgetown University
Co-Chair: Andrew Sikora, MD, PhD - MD Anderson Cancer Center
 
Schedule: Meets virtually at 12:00 PM PT / 2:00 PM CT / 3:00 PM ET on the first Tuesday of every alternate month.
 
Translational Cellular Therapy Working Group
 
Chair: Wendell Lim, PhD - University of California, San Francisco
Co-Chair: Catherine Bollard - Children's National Research Institute
 
 
Schedule: Meets quarterly on the fourth Wednesday at 8:30 AM PT / 10:30 AM CT / 11:30 AM ET.
 
Immune Mechanism and Recognition Working Group
 
Chair: Lawrence Fong, MD - University of California, San Francisco
Co-Chair: Michael Demetriou, MD, PhD - University of California, Irvine
 
 
Schedule: Meets quarterly on the third Thursday at 11:00 PM PT / 1:00 PM CT / 2:00 PM ET.
 
Clinical Trials Task Force
 
Chair: Kunle Odunsi, MD, PhD - Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Co-Chair: Andrew Sikora - MD Anderson Cancer Center