Live Notes from @AACR’s #cbi16 Meeting on Precision Medicine: Intro 1:30 1/21/16
Reporter: Stephen J. Williams, PhD
Live Notes From the AACR Meeting on Precision Medicine: Twitter Feed #cbi16
1:30- 2:00 PM: Introduction by Dr. Margeret Foti, CEO AACR and Charlotte Sutton and Karl Stark, Philadelphia Inquirer
Introduction: Meeting represented by 16 Cancer centers and 4 from Philly
- Philadelphia’s rich cancer history (Philadelphia chromosome) and rich present of recent discoveries perfect setting
- Dr. Foti: AACR largest cancer research network in the world from 1907. 35,000 AACR members and from around the world *international representation
- Dr. Foti: AACR needs to do more on patient and advocate outreach as these groups have not all heard of AACR; focus now is more on communication as well as legislative and policy, especially now with FDA
- Dr. Foti: POTUS announcement is great announcement and AACR working with them; POTUS wants it to be a US effort but UK is calling AACR seeing how they can get involved; topics discussed with POTUS data sharing, payer for genetic sequencing of patients cancer genome so patient does not have to pay; Vice President visit to Penn: Dr. Grupp and Deng will discuss this
- Dr. Foti: representatives will be at DAVOS to discuss cancer and genomics
- Dr. Foti: funding issue AACR did a survey 81% people favor using tax $ to fund cancer research
- 2016 NIH spending will increase
- AACR wants to increase their funding efforts (90 cents of every dollar to researchers; low administrative costs)!
- 16 new FDA approved 2015d
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