TRAINING WORKSHOPS
Cancer OMICS Training Workshop: March 13 - 22, 2023
The objective of this Workshop is to leverage the power of Omics to discover targetable genes/mutations in various cancers and gain new insights into cancer health disparities.
This “first-of-its-kind” Cancer Education and Research Training Workshop has three components:
(1) Didactic training in Week 1
(2) An in silico research project that involves teamwork and extends over two months
(3) Validation of the in silico findings in the mentor's or co-mentor's laboratories.
There are over 150 trainees from 65 different institutions in 6 countries. The trainees are placed in 24 groups (assigned per clinical indication, oncogene or tumor suppressor gene) and the groups are led by mentors from various institutions in the United States, India and Brazil. This unique format is expected to promote inter-institutional and international collaborations in cancer education and research training.
Cancer OMICS Go Create Workshop:
March 17-19, 2025
9:00 AM EDT | 10:00 AM Brazil Time | 3:00 PM CET | 6:30 PM IST
WORKSHOP DIRECTOR:
Sooryanarayana (Soory) Varambally MS, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
Director of Translational Oncologic Pathology Research
Senior Scientist
Informatics Institute and O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
USA
GO-CREATE WORKSHOP SERIES -
based on GCC's Original - Cancer Research Education And Train-the Trainer Empowerment
(GO-CREATE) Workshop Model
Pre-recorded Lecture 1: Basic biology, cells, biological molecules and their regulation.
Pre-recorded Lecture 2: Hallmarks of cancer and role of genes and mutations, rearrangements, fusion, etc.
Workshop Prerequisites
Who It’s For
This Workshop is for students in their Masters, PhD, PharmD or MBBS/MD Program, and postdoc. Medical residents and faculty interested in participating are welcome to attend. Similar to the OMICs Workshop of March 2023, the participants are expected to develop their research projects by working in mentored teams for publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Selected participants will work on mentored research project assignments.
Workshop Week Summary
March 17-19 (9:00-10:00 AM EDT):
Live Talks on Genomics, Proteomics, and Metabolomics, Oncogenes, Tumor suppressor genes, DNA repair genes. Identifying targets in cancer and understanding the underlying mechanisms. Data analysis, platforms, discovery research using (UALCAN, TCGA, and cBioPortal, and other publicly accessible databases) and role of Cancer Registries in various countries in Omics and clinical outcomes studies.