Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute Deputy Center Director and Wayne State University Professor of Oncology Ann Schwartz, Ph.D., M.P.H., was recently elected to a three-year term on the International Lung Cancer Consortium's Steering Committee.

The International Lung Cancer Consortium is an international group of lung cancer researchers with the aim of sharing comparable data from ongoing lung cancer case-control and cohort studies. The studies are from different geographical areas and ethnicities. The overall objectives are to achieve greater power, especially for subgroup analyses, reduce duplication of research effort, replicate novel findings and afford substantial cost savings through large collaborative efforts. The goal is to share comparable data, increase power to detect gene-environment interactions, and focus on special subgroups such as early onset lung cancer cases, non-smokers or patients with tumors of rare histology.

Partners in the consortium are: MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle; Harvard School of Public Health; the International Agency for Research on Cancer, France; Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute at Wayne State University; National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health; the University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre; National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway; Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, Canada; Mayo Clinic, Rochester; Harvard University; Brown University; Seoul National University, Seoul, South-Korea; Institute of Cancer Research, United Kingdom; Penn State College of Medicine; German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ); University of Goettingen, Germany; University of Hawaii; Cancer Center and Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology, Poland; National University of Singapore; INSERM, Cedex, France; Pennsylvania State Cancer Institute; deCODE Genetics, Iceland; Russian NN Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow; UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles; and University of California, San Francisco.