Research Forum
SoCO Research Forum
Bring the work before it’s finished.
The Research Forum is a recurring multidisciplinary space for investigators to present work in progress, challenge assumptions, refine methods, and develop collaborative projects across cutaneous oncology.
Why the Forum exists
Good science gets better through criticism.
Many clinical investigators first receive sustained criticism only after a study has been designed, analyzed, and written.
The Research Forum creates space to bring ideas forward while there is still time to change them—from an early clinical question or trial concept to preliminary analyses, methodological problems, and mature projects seeking broader multidisciplinary input.
The goal is not simply to present work. It is to make the work better.
Invite criticism
Make assumptions visible and give colleagues room to challenge the framing, methods, and interpretation.
Build together
Use discussion to identify collaborators, complementary expertise, and opportunities for multicenter science.
The working principle
Our best ideas deserve our colleagues’ best criticism.
Research Forum presentations may include new study concepts, trial designs, preliminary data, statistical or methodological questions, reproducibility challenges, data-sharing opportunities, and collaborative projects across the spectrum of cutaneous oncology.
The work may be early. It may be incomplete. That is the point.
In development
Proposed Meetings
Some Forum conversations begin as working concepts. These pages make the proposed format, agenda, and questions visible while there is still time to refine them with the people who will shape the discussion.
Proposed Meeting · Fall 2026
Inside the Review Room
From Patient-Level Data to FDA Regulatory Decision-Making
A proposed 90-minute, moderator-led panel exploring how oncology applications are reviewed inside FDA, how patient-level evidence is interrogated and reconstructed, and when advisory committees become part of the regulatory process.
Research Forum archive
Presentations
Explore prior discussions, methods sessions, trial concepts, preliminary analyses, and projects that were brought to the Forum while still in motion.
