- 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, Chile2010 • 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, Brazil2011 • 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, Mexico2012 • First interim data analysis
• First meeting of vDCAT, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Second interim data analysis
• Fourth LACRN annual meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina2013–2014 • 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.
Supplementary Materials
www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/7/319/319fs50/DC1
Table S1. Full list of members of U.S.–Latin American Cancer Research Network.
Fig. S1. LACRN governance
Additional Files
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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.aad5859This PDF file includes:
- Table S1. Full list of members of U.S.–Latin American Cancer Research Network.
- Fig. S1. LACRN governance.
