Earlier this month, researchers from science and public health organizations in China and the United States, including NCI, met in Guangzhou, China, to discuss specific research goals and possibilities for collaboration in cancer epidemiology, environmental monitoring, and tobacco control, and how to foster translational research in these areas.

“The meeting focused on adult lung and childhood cancers,” explained Dr. Gary Ellison, an epidemiologist in NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS), who led the development of the scientific meeting agenda for NCI. He noted that in addition to the scientific presentations, representatives from Chinese and U.S. funding agencies presented existing mechanisms to support new collaboration in the scientific areas addressed at the meeting. While NCI has supported several China-related research projects, he explained, this workshop will help define scientific priorities related to environmental pollution and cancer with the goal of expanding and creating additional opportunities for mutual scientific cooperation.