NCI Conference Calls on Tissue Banking, Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid

[My colleague Brett Davis sent me this heads up on an interesting teleconference series with the Nation Cancer Institute....Alas, I missed the April 27th call, but fortunately they offer a toll-free replay.  The upcoming one --- May 17th on The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, or caBIG, also looks quite informative...enjoy, and have a good weekend. Jack Mason, IBM Strategic & New Media Communications] Understanding NCI: A Toll-Free Teleconference Series Members of cancer advocacy organizations, survivors, family, and friends are all encouraged to participate in the teleconference series. The teleconference series provides participants with the opportunity to learn more about NCI's important cancer research programs as well as how advocates are involved in these programs. Callers are able to participate in the series by asking questions of the NCI featured speakers.   Upcoming Calls Thursday, April 27th 2006 at 2:00 p.m. (EST) “Tissue Banking: An Introduction to the Issues Surrounding Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research” Featuring Carolyn Compton, MD, Ph.D. Director of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research; and Paula Kim, advocate USA Toll-Free: 1-800-857-6584 Passcode: TISSUE Toll-Free Playback until 5/27/06: 1-888-446-2535 Wednesday, May 17th 2006 at 2:00 p.m. (EST) “Why caBIG is Important to Advocates” Featuring Kenneth H. Buetow, Ph.D., Associate Director for Bioinformatics and Information Technology, OD, Chief, Laboratory of Population Genetics, CCR; Leslie K. Derr, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute, Coordinator, caBIG Workspaces; and Greg Bielawski, CARRA member USA Toll-Free: 1-800-857-6584 Passcode: CABIG Toll-Free Playback until 6/17/06: 1-866-431-2898 For more on this teleconference series visit http://la.cancer.gov/teleconference.html

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