2026 Summer Summit July 15 – 16

Day 1 July 15

GENIE Progress Report
Ken Kehl (DFCI)

P01 Updates
Ken Kehl (DFCI)

Niki Schultz

Jian Carrot-Zhang (MSK)

Business Development Updates
Tony Wu (GCC)

Bayer NSCLC HER2 Study Update
Ken Kehl (DFCI)

Introduction to GP3
Kelli Rasmussen (GCC)

Scaling Clinical Data Abstraction at Providence: GP3 Update
Jake VanCampen (PROV)

Building a Scalable Framework for AI-Assisted Clinical Data
Curation UHN’s Experience with the GENIE GP3 Pilot
Emily Van de Laar (UHN)

Speaker 1: Environmental Exposures, Susceptibility and
Early Onset Cancer Risk
Mary Beth Terry (COLU)

Speaker 2: Epigenetic fingerprints link early onset colorectal cancer to pesticide exposure
Jose Seoane (VHIO)

Speaker 3: Multimodal Integration in Oncology: What are we actually learning?
Hakim Benikrane (GRCC)

Speaker 4: Role of the exposome in clinical cancer care and survival outcomes
Marilyn Hammer (DFCI)

Roundtable Discussions
Led by Co-Chair: Maud Kamal (GRCC)

Expanding The AACR Project GENIE Mission
Ken Kehl / Shawn Sweeney


GENIE Expansion Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 1: Expanded Testing
Shannon J McCall (DUKE)

Breakout Session 2: Expanded Inclusion
Ken L Kehl (DFCI)

Breakout Session 3: Data Access
Phil Bedard (UHN)

Breakout Session 4: Implementation
Brady Bernard (PROV)

GENIE Expansion Discussion Debrief
Ken Kehl / Shawn Sweeney


Day 2: July 16

GENIE Expansion Discussion Part 2: Report out and final discussions
Ken Kehl / Shawn Sweeney 

Speaker 5:
Digital Pathology Experience at Johns Hopkins:
Challenges and Opportunities

Alex Baras (JHU – Virtual)

Speaker 6: Biomarker Benchmarking Across Ancestral
Populations

Amin Nassar (YALE – Virtual)

Curated Reference Datasets Improve Genetic Ancestry
Calls in Cancer Patient Cohorts

Nick Pannunzio (UCI)

Speaker 8: Local ancestry pipeline pilot update from MSK
(site-specific deployment)

Tomin Perea-Chamblee (MSK

Roundtable Discussions
Led by Co-Chair: Ben Herzberg (COLU)

Lightning Talk 1: Chromosome 19p Associates with
NSCLC Patient Outcomes in a Histology-Specific and
Dose-Dependent Manner

Samyukta Mallick (COLU)

Lightning Talk 2: Clinicogenomic Landscape and
Functional Implications of PTPN11 (SHP2) Alterations in
Glioblastoma

Mark Sowers (JHU)

Show-and-Tell Presentation 1: AI-Compare: A Desktop
Application for Machine Learning Analysis of Prostate
Cancer Progression

San Chu (LSU)

Show-and-Tell Presentation 2: Building the Sylvester Data
Portal (SDP): A Scalable Multi-Vendor Clinicogenomic
Harmonization Platform for Translational Research

Oliver Mazariegos (UMIAMI)

Show-and-Tell Presentation 3:
Cancer Type Prediction Harmonizing AACR GENIE Data
with Bayesian Neural Network

Mookyong Son (MSK

Show-and-Tell Presentation 4: Reading Tissues at Cellular
Resolution: A Practical Toolkit for Spatial Omics

Ali Hamraoui (GRCC – Virtual)

Show-and-Tell Presentation 5: Automated extraction of
structural data from clinical notes

Anna Pedrola Gomez (VHIO – Virtual)

Modern Infrastructure: Powering the Future of GENIE
Shawn Sweeney, Kelli Rasmussen & Anum Mian (GCC)