IASLC newsletter
Fred R. Hirsch, MD, PhD
Editor, IASLC Newsletter
NEWSLETTER
December 2009
Dear Colleagues:
Important decisions were made at the last Board of Directors meeting in California, November 1-2, 2009. After long strategic discussions and evaluation, the Board of Directors decided to establish an independent permanent headquarters established in Denver, Colorado. The Board of Directors is currently with the help of an external company planning the infrastructure necessary to operate this headquarters. The establishment of the headquarters in Denver is expected to be completed by July 2010. At the same time the Board of Directors is considering to establishing regional offices. The IASLC members can send questions, comments or concerns to the IASLC Office.
The Board of Directors wants the members to pay attention to a new round of the IASLC Fellowships/Young Investigators Awards the deadline for applications January 10, 2010 – please see announcement below.
IASLC is also proud to announce a new grant in conjunction with Lung Cancer Foundation of America (LCFA) – please see announcement below. Deadline for this grant application is January 31st, 2010.
The abstract submission to the first AACR/IASLC meeting on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer was very successful and more than 100 abstracts were submitted. The IASLC Board of Directors has decided to launch an honorary award to be named “The Paul A. Bunn, Jr. MD Award for Translational Lung Cancer Research”.
The IASLC Board of Directors will encourage as many members as possible to submit abstracts to the ESMO IASLC meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, April 28-May 1, 2010. The deadline for abstract submission is January 13, 2010.
The IASLC Pathology Committee is currently finishing a new international multidisciplinary classification of lung adenocarcinoma. This is a work co-sponsored by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS). The committee plans to submit the final proposal for publication in January 2010. Details of the new classification will be presented in a later newsletter.
Finally, the IASLC Board of Directors and the Executive Office wishes all the IASLC members and families Happy Holidays!
Fred R. Hirsch, MD, PhD
Editor, IASLC Newslette
IASLC Staging Manual:
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The new IASLC Staging Manual has been published in different formats. Several years of work from the IASLC Staging Committee and particularly the chair Dr. Peter Goldstraw, has resulted in a formal staging manual. The book and the “pocket-cards” can be ordered at www.iaslc.org |
IASLC History Book
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The IASLC History Book 1972-2007, edited by Dr. Heine H. Hansen was presented at the World Conference in San Francisco. This beautiful book includes a detailed history of the organization and includes many memories from multiple meetings and workshops over the years. All members will receive a book in the mail in the coming weeks. |
AACR - IASLC Meeting, San Diego, CA – January 11-14, 2010
www.iaslc.org
IASLC Fellowship 2009 – 2011 Announcement
IASLC
IASLC Lung Cancer Fellowship Award/Young Investigators Award - 2 years duration
IASLC/PCF Prevent Cancer Foundation Fellowship Award - 2 years duration
The IASLC is proud to announce a continuation and expansion of the IASLC Fellowship and Young Investigators Programs.
Overall there are 18 potential awards for two years each. There are awards in prevention and translational lung cancer research that are jointly sponsored with the Prevent Cancer Foundation, (PCF), through educational grants from Eli Lilly. There are unrestricted awards in any field of lung cancer research supported by educational grants from GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, AstraZeneca, Celgene, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and OSI.
This year 6 new unrestricted awards of $40,000 each year for 2 years are available for competition.
We are now requesting application for these Fellowships and Young Investigator awards to be awarded in 2010.The goal is to reward scientific excellence and to encourage innovative investigations in the field of lung cancer prevention research and translational research with a potential impact on the management of lung cancer. The applications will be evaluated by a Scientific Review Panel; the deadline for submission of the application is January 10, 2010. A decision on applications will be reached by March 2010.
Application forms can be found at the website: www.iaslc.org
Please e-mail you application to: pia.hirsch@ucdenver.edu latest January 10, 2010.
Lung Cancer Foundation of America – IASLC Award
The Lung Cancer Foundation of America and IASLC are partnering to fund exciting research opportunities for molecular analysis of bio-specimens (blood, tissue, urine, etc.) collected as part of medium to large clinical trials.
Applicants should be faculty members in the first 5 years of the faculty appointment, explicitly define a senior mentor and mentoring plan as part of the proposal. Applications will be accepted for up to $125,000 for the first year, renewable for one year upon demonstration of satisfactory progress. Applications will be reviewed by the IASLC Awards Committee.
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE JANUARY 31, 2010!
JTO – Mobile version
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is pleased to announce the launch of a mobile version of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology web site. IASLC members with a BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, or Windows Mobile phone, can type jto.org into their browser, and will be automatically referred to the mobile site.
The mobile site allows members to read full text articles. Members must have registered on the desktop site, and can then access the mobile site with the same user name and password. Logging in is not required to view tables of contents and read abstracts, but is required for full text.
IASLC Welcomes 30 new members from September – November 2009
Australia |
China |
Netherlands |
USA |
Emily Stone |
Alvis, Iek Long Lo |
Ron van der Kamp |
Mitchell Magee |
Belgium |
Denmark |
A. L. J. Uitterhoeve |
K. E. Sommers |
Beatrijs Anrys |
H. Kirstein Jensen |
Norway |
Nina Maouelainin |
Canada |
Germany |
Martin Turzer |
Steven Potts |
Sian Roberts |
Daniel Christoph |
Singapore |
Minh D. To |
Bradley McLean |
Japan |
Ross Soo |
Sandeep Bansal |
Christine Buerki |
Atsushi Nagai |
UK |
Alvin Teirstein |
Tanya Berrang |
Makoto Nishio |
David Gilligan |
Joanne Rossman |
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Lebanon |
Malcolm Lawson |
Ebenezer Kio |
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Dany Abigerges |
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Joseph Lehman |
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T. Jirakulaporn |
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Fabien Maldenado |
Announcement:
Why do patients who never smoked get lung cancer?
IRB-approved protocol using the internet to collect clinical information and blood specimens from 1,500 never smokers with lung cancer
Participants fill out an online questionnaire and send in two tubes of blood (Blood can be drawn at routine clinic visit. Tubes and shipping prepaid)
Blood samples will be used to look for genomic differences between never smokers with lung cancer and never smokers without lung cancer (genome-wide association studies).
email: neversmokerswithlungcancer@vanderbilt.edu
Upcoming IASLC Workshops
2010
January 11-14, 2010
AACR-IASLC Joint Conference
Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer:
Prospects for Personalized Prevention and Therapy
Location: Loews Coronado Bay Resort, Coronado, California
Chairpersons: David P. Carbone, Roy S. Herbst
Website: http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/meetings--workshops/aacr-iaslc-joint-conference-lung-cancer.aspx
February 24-28, 2010
10th Annual Targeted Therapies of the Treatment of Lung Cancer
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Email: pia.hirsch@ucdenver.edu
April 28-May 1, 2010
2nd European IASLC/ESMO Lung Cancer Conference
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
July 29-31, 2010
IASLC Latin American Meeting
Location:Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 7-9, 2010
2nd International Thoracic Congress Dresden
Location: Dresden, Germany
Email: profmanegold@t-online.de
December 2-4, 2010
4th Asia Pacific Lung Cancer Conference (APLCC 2010)
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Email: hjk3425@skku.edu
December 3-5, 2010
12th Central European Lung Cancer Conference (CELCC)
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Email: ostorosgyula@freemail.hu
December 9-11, 2010
ASCO/ASTRO/IASLC/University of Chicago Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology
Location: Chicago, IL
Email: evokes@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
2011
July 3-7, 2011
14th World Conference on Lung Cancer
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Click here for more information