highlights and progress

• This year Team 1 continued to grow and develop connections.
• Team 1 added 11 academic associate members.
• Team 1 added 9 corporate associate members.
• Team 1 organized 9 Executive Committee Conference calls, and held 3 face-to-face meetings to facilitate network interaction and collaboration (one Executive Committee face-to-face meeting, a scientific retreat and a major scientific session at an international conference).
• Team 1 awarded $250,000 to 13 synergistic developmental projects. The awarded developmental projects, aimed at contributing new understanding to primary objectives of the RFA, translation and validation, cover a broad spectrum of activities including database development, standardization of histopathology methods, development of novel measurement protocols, and support for student training.
• Almost 90 scientists, clinicians, students, and members of industry from 9 states and 5 countries attended our Second Annual BC-DOI Network Retreat, an increase of almost 25% from to the previous year.
• BC-DOI Investigators submitted 15 proposals to various agencies with the aim of leveraging NTROI funding.
• Team 1 clinical sites enrolled a total of 177 patients in NTROI studies.
• Team 1 developed 2 software platforms.
• BC-DOI Investigators gave 21 presentations about Network progress at scientific meetings.
• Network Investigators cited NTROI research in 27 publications.