U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News National Cancer Institute (NCI) http://www.cancer.gov/ EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE: Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 1:00 p.m. ET CONTACT: NCI Media Relations Branch, 301-496-6641, <ncipressofficers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> News Advisory: NCI CREATES NETWORK OF CLINICAL PROTEOMIC TECHNOLOGY CENTERS FOR CANCER RESEARCH WHAT: CLINICAL PROTEOMIC TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT FOR CANCER TEAMS The National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, will host a telebriefing to announce five Clinical Proteomic Technology Assessment for Cancer (CPTAC) teams. A major component of its $104 million, five-year Clinical Proteomics Technologies Initiative, the CPTAC awards total $35.5 million over five years. The CPTAC teams will bring complementary expertise to assess the full spectrum of measurement technologies for proteins and peptides relevant to clinical cancer research and practice. The network's collaborative efforts will guide and provide resources to the broader cancer research community, enabling researchers conducting cancer-related protein research at different laboratories to use proteomic technologies and methodologies to directly compare their work. Standardized technologies and methodologies are critically needed in current cancer proteomic research. WHO: Anna D. Barker, Ph.D., NCI deputy director, advanced technologies and strategic partnerships Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., president and director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Steven A. Carr, Ph.D., Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Joe Gray, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Daniel C. Liebler, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Fred E. Regnier, Ph.D., Purdue University Paul Tempst, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center WHEN: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT The media briefing is available to reporters via a toll-free conference line at 1-866-755-5928 (Teleconference number: 7211683) in the United States only. NOTE: The briefing will begin promptly at 11:00 a.m. EDT. Reporters should dial in 5-10 minutes before the start of the conference. Following the presentations, an operator will inform you that the session is open to questions. To ask a question, press *1 on your touchtone phone. You will hear a tone to indicate your question is pending. A transcript of the briefing will be available as soon as possible following the briefing at <http://proteomics.cancer.gov>. This NIH News Release is available online at: http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sep2006/nci-27a.htm. To subscribe (or unsubscribe) from this list, go to http://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=nihpress&A=1.
