Demystifying Cancer Clinical Trials

Want to learn about, or conduct, cancer clinical trials?

Tufts CTSI and the Cancer Center at Tufts Medical Center are hosting a free 20-hour course for fellows, faculty, research team members, and anyone interested in the process of conducting cancer-related clinical trials.

Documents

• Demystifying Cancer Clinical Trials Training Series Outline (PDF)
• Proposed Pre-work on I LEARN (PDF)

Session 1, October 14, 2016

• Session 1 Agenda
• Slides: Differences Between Industry-Sponsored, Industry-Supported, and PI-Initiated Studies (PDF)
• Slides: Oncology Clinical Research Lifecycle (PDF)
• Session 1 Video, Part 1 (mp4 Video)
• Session 1 Video, Part 2 (mp4 Video)

Session 2, November 18, 2016

• Session 2 Agenda (PDF)
• Session 2 Slides (PDF)
• Protocol template (PDF)
• CTEP Protocol Table of Contents (PDF)
• Klein Duvelisib IST Protocol (PDF)
• Session 2 Video (mp4 Video)

Session 3, December 16, 2016

• Session 3 Agenda (PDF)
• Session 3 Slides, Part 1 (PDF)
• Session 3 Slides, Part 2 (PDF)
• Session 3 Video (mp4 Video)

Session 4, February 10, 2017

• Session 4 Agenda (PDF)
• Session 4 Slides (PDF)
• Session 4 Video, Part 1 (mp4 Video)
• Session 4 Video, Part 2 (mp4 Video)
• Session 4 Video, Part 3 (mp4 Video)
• Session 4 Video, Part 4 (mp4 Video)

Session 5, March 24, 2017

• Session 5 Agenda (PDF)
• Session 5 Slides (PDF)
• Session 5 Video, Part 1 (mp4 Video)
• Session 5 Video, Part 2 (mp4 Video)
• Session 5 Video, Part 3 (mp4 Video)

 

Details

Demystifying Cancer Clinical Trials will take place on Fridays, from 1:00-5:00PM on the Tufts Health Sciences Campus in Boston:

• October 14 (35 Kneeland Street, 8th Floor, Boston)
• November 18 (Tufts University Center for Medical Education, Room 114, 145 Harrison Avenue, Boston)
• December 16 (35 Kneeland Street, 8th Floor, Boston)
• February 10 (35 Kneeland Street, 8th Floor, Boston)
• March 24 (35 Kneeland Street, 8th Floor, Boston)

Course sessions will also be videorecorded and posted on Tufts CTSI’s I LEARN website.

Attendees are encouraged to review other courses on I LEARN prior to the start of Demystifying Cancer Clinical Trials.

Goals

At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain how to navigate investigator-initiated clinical trial processes in cancer.
• Discuss how to work with pharmaceutical industries and other for-profit entities.
• Define investigational new drug (IND) and investigational device exemption (IDE) studies and explain how IND/IDE clinical trials are conducted.
• State the Principal Investigator’s responsibilities for leading a clinical trial as well as the responsibilities of the research team.

To Register

To attend, sign up here. Participants are encouraged to attend all five sessions.