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National Cancer Institute
C A N CER IM AGING PROGRAM
In partnership with the American Association for Cancer Research
Cancer Research Imaging Camp
An Educational Opportunity for Basic Cancer Researchers
June 24–29, 2007
Duke Center for In Vivo Microscopy
Durham, North Carolina
Application Deadline: January 19, 2007
U.S. DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes
of Health
Lectures
A Unique Leaders in the field of imaging will present lectures on:
Opportunity ■ Handling and anesthesia for small animal imaging
■ Introduction to optical imaging, from cells to animals
Postdoctoral fellows and early
■ Probes for optical imaging
career–level faculty in fields
■ Applications of optical imaging—confocal and multiphoton
related to basic cancer biology
are invited to apply for a special ■ Applications of in vivo optical imaging
intensive course on in vivo and ■ X-ray physics
live cell–imaging techniques. ■ Principles of computed tomography
Through lectures and hands-on ■ Applications of micro CT
experiments, participants will ■ Introduction to SPECT/PET
gain experience with a wide ■ Probes for nuclear imaging
range of imaging modalities, ■ Applications of micro PET/micro SPECT
including advanced optical ■ Basic ultrasound physics
imaging (particularly for in ■ Small animal Doppler/perfusion imaging with ultrasound
vivo studies in small animals),
■ Applications of ultrasound
MRI, PET, SPECT, CT, and
■ Fundamentals of MR imaging
ultrasound. After this course,
■ MR imaging contrast agents
participants will be able to select
■ Fundamentals of MR spectroscopy
and apply the appropriate in vivo
■ Image analysis
imaging technique necessary
to investigate a biological
hypothesis and to interpret the Laboratories
resulting imaging data. Apply Participants will gain hands-on imaging experience during intensive
early; attendance is strictly laboratory sessions, including:
limited to 16 participants. ■ Handling and anesthesia for small animal imaging
■ Optical imaging
The Cancer Research Imaging
■ X-ray/CT
Camp workshop will include
■ PET/SPECT
both didactic and laboratory
sessions on in vivo and live cell
■ Magnetic resonance
imaging as well as interactive ■ Ultrasound
sessions with the faculty.
Faculty-Student Interactive Sessions
■ Integrating biological questions with imaging answers
■ NIH grants
■ Presentation by each student to summarize his or her research
Faculty
■ *Joseph Ackerman, Ph.D.,
Washington University in St. Louis, MO
■ Carolyn Anderson, Ph.D.,
Washington University in St. Louis, MO
■ Cristian Badea, Ph.D., Duke
University, Durham, NC
General Information Participant Selection ■ *Kenneth Bielat, Ph.D., National
The Cancer Research Imaging Sixteen participants will be Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
■ Michael Garwood, Ph.D., University
Camp will be held at the Duke selected by the Workshop
of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN
Center for In Vivo Microscopy in Selection Committee. Preference
■ *Robert Gillies, Ph.D., University of
Durham, North Carolina, begin- will be shown to investigators
Arizona, Tucson, AZ
ning with lunch at 11:30 a.m. on demonstrating a commitment to
■ Laurence Hedlund, Ph.D., Duke
Sunday, June 24, and ending at the integration of in vivo or live University, Durham, NC
noon on Friday, June 29, 2007. cell imaging into their research. ■ *G. Allan Johnson, Ph.D., Duke
Participants must attend all The Selection Committee seeks to University, Durham, NC
sessions. Students who do not assemble a group of students from ■ *Kenneth Krohn, Ph.D., University of
complete the entire workshop or diverse academic and research Washington, Seattle, WA
who leave before noon on June 29 institutions who work in a ■ Richard LaForest, Ph.D.,
could jeopardize their institution’s variety of cancer research areas. Washington University in St. Louis, MO
ability to send students the fol- Women and persons from groups ■ *Anne Menkens, Ph.D., National
lowing year. Participants will be considered by the National Cancer Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
■ *Charles Meyer, Ph.D., University of
responsible for their travel to and Institute to be underrepresented in
Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
from Durham and for a registration cancer research are encouraged to
■ *Suresh Mohla, Ph.D., National
fee of $475. apply. Preference will be given to
Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
investigators working in the United
■ Sarah Nelson, Ph.D., University of
Participant Eligibility States and Canada. California, San Francisco, CA
The Cancer Research Imaging ■ *Kathy Nightingale, Ph.D., Duke
Camp workshop is designed for Accommodations University, Durham, NC
■ *David Piston, Ph.D., Vanderbilt
postdoctoral fellows and early Workshop participants will be
University, Nashville, TN
career–level faculty in fields housed at the R. David Thomas
■ *Thomas Quinn, Ph.D., University of
related to basic cancer biology. Executive Conference Center
Missouri, Columbia, MO
on the Duke University campus
■ Ehsan Samei, Ph.D., Duke
(http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/ad- University, Durham, NC
min/rdtc/index.htm), and meals ■ Dean Sherry, Ph.D., University of
will be served in that facility. Texas at Dallas, TX
There is no additional charge for ■ *Bonnie Sloane, Ph.D., Wayne State
room or board. University, Detroit, MI
■ *Daniel Sullivan, M.D., National
Participants will not have an Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
abundance of free time, and we ■ *Daniel Sussman, Ph.D., National
therefore strongly discourage the Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD
■ Simon Watkins, Ph.D., University
attendance of spouses and other
of Pittsburgh, PA
guests. Spouses and other guests
■ Michael Zalutsky, Ph.D., Duke
will not have meal privileges at the
University, Durham, NC
R. David Thomas Center.
Additional faculty members to be
announced.
____________________
*Member of Workshop Executive Committee
How to Apply
No paper submissions will be accepted; apply at On the cover: A 50-micron slice from a 5122 X
http://cip.nci.nih.gov/cip/SubmissionForm.do. 2048 3D MR histology image of a whole mouse
(a) shows a lesion in the liver (red arrow) and a
Only complete online applications will be considered. metastasis (blue arrow). Yellow arrows in (a) and
in a conventional histology image (b) show vas-
cular landmarks. These images demonstrate that
The complete application must include: one can survey an entire mouse with sufficient
sensitivity to detect preneoplastic loci of cellular
alteration. The spatial resolution of (a) is 40,000
1. A one-page description of your current in vivo or live cell times higher than clinical MRI. (GA Johnson, et
al., MR histology for morphological phenotyp-
imaging experience. ing, JMRI 16(4): 423–429, 2002.)
a 1 mm
2. A one-page description of your general area of cancer research
and how you plan to integrate in vivo or live cell imaging into
that research.
3. NIH biosketch—format can be found at http://grants1.nih.
gov/grants/funding/424/SF424R-R_biosketch.doc.
b
4. Letter of Recommendation—You must submit a letter from
your Program Supervisor, Department Head, or Cancer Center
Director in support of your application for this workshop. This
letter should describe the quality of your experimental work
and the impact that advanced in vivo imaging techniques could
have on its progress.
Deadline
Submit the completed application form no later than January 19,
2007. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by March 15.
If you have questions about the application process,
please contact:
Anne E. Menkens, Ph.D.
Program Director
Molecular Imaging Branch
Cancer Imaging Program
Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
National Cancer Institute
E-mail: am187k@nih.gov
Tel: 301-496-9531
