2-2-2011 PQ Summary
February 2, 2011 Clinical and Translational Sciences Provocative Questions Workshop
Twenty-two cancer researchers, representing clinical
research, including pathology, surgery, medical oncology, radiology,
radiotherapy, clinical trials, and community practice, assembled at the Stone
House on the NIH campus on February 2, 2011 for the NCI Clinical and
Translational Sciences Provocative Questions workshop. The participants were
invited by the project’s organizers to craft a list of interesting questions
that might highlight potential new research directions among NCI-supported
investigators or reinvigorate research in important areas that have been
neglected, and to discuss and evaluate some of the questions submitted by the
participants prior to the workshop.
Over the course of several hours of presentations of proposed scientific
questions and animated responses to them, followed up by email correspondence,
the participants informally endorsed seven provocative questions.