Translational cancer research comes of age in Latin America

Table 1 Building and broadening collaborations.

LACRN timeline for collaborative cancer research efforts.

Year	Milestones

2009	• LACRN formed by LOIs* • First planning meeting, Bethesda, MD, USA • MPBC study protocol and SOP developed at workshop, Santiago, Chile
2010	• Initiation of monthly committee calls via teleconference and webinars • Pathology workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Biobanking and molecular biology workshops, Montevideo, Uruguay • Bioinformatics workshop, Bethesda, MD, USA • Second LACRN annual meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011	• Biobanks established across LACRN countries • Residual cancer burden training, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA • Release of manual of operations and database in three languages • Start of patient recruitment for MPBC • Study monitoring plan implemented • Third LACRN annual meeting, Guadalajara, Mexico
2012	• First interim data analysis • First meeting of vDCAT, Buenos Aires, Argentina • Second interim data analysis • Fourth LACRN annual meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013–2014	• Bioinformatics training, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Third interim data analysis • REBLAC/RINC** and LACRN pathology and biobanking workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • MPBC study closed to patient accrual, December 2013 • LACRN strategic planning meeting, Bethesda, MD, USA • Future studies meeting, Lima, Peru

*LOIs, letters of intent to collaborate; **REBLAC/RINC, Red de Biobancos de Latinoamérica y Caribe/Red de Institutos Nacionales de Cáncer.

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Table S1. Full list of members of U.S.–Latin American Cancer Research Network.
Fig. S1. LACRN governance

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Translational cancer research comes of age in Latin America

Investigators of the U.S.–Latin America Cancer Research Network*

*Corresponding author. E-mail: opodhajcer{at}leloir.org.ar

Published 23 December 2015, Sci. Transl. Med. 7, 319fs50 (2015)
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aad5859

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Table S1. Full list of members of U.S.–Latin American Cancer Research Network.
Fig. S1. LACRN governance.

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