human Cancer Proteome Project (Cancer-HPP)

The Human Cancer Proteome Project (Cancer-HPP) is an international initiative whose key objective is to decipher the human cancer proteome through a coordinated effort by cancer proteome researchers around the world. The goal is to map the entire human cancer proteome to disclose tumour biology leading to improved diagnostics and treatment of cancer.

Click here to read the 2017 Cancer-HPP report.

Current activities:

Characterize proteomes, proteome forms, and protein networks from different cancers and the matched non-cancers through coordinated efforts of specimen collections and data acquisitions.

Identify cancer-specific proteins, protein forms, or protein networks from each cancer type and cancer-type-specific proteins, protein forms, and protein networks by comparison of multiple cancer types through data deposition, sharing, and data analysis.

Determine the protein-specific or protein-isoform-specific changes of cancer through the correlation studies of genomic and proteomic data through the comparison to the existing genomic data or the genomic data collected from each specimen.

Develop targeted assays to measure protein- or protein-form-specific changes for each tumor type to support the analysis of complex biological networks or clinical specimens underlying different disease processes.

Disseminate assays to the discovery labs to apply the targeted assays to the specimens from discovery specimens to verify the changes from discovery phase.

Validate the protein, protein forms, or protein network changes in independent specimens.

2018 Achievements:

Organizing the Cancer HPP workshop, HUPO, Orlando
Development of Ca-HPP investigator database: 150 members
Reaching out to other international cancer-related organisations
Publishing articles on cancer proteomic reviews, methods for proteomics and PTMs by mass spectrometry and protein microarray approaches, SRM assays, cancer proteomic data reproducibility, and reference materials.

Cancer-HPP steering committee:

Hui Zhang (Chair), John Hopkins University, Baltimore
Edouard Nice (Co-chair), Monash University, Australia
Connie Jimenez (Co-chair), VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam
Chris Kinsinger (NIH/NCI)

Cancer-HPP partners:

Cancer HPP partners with NCI's Clinical Proteome Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC).

Major goal for the coming 5 years:

Delineate cancer proteomes versus matched normal/ premalignant
Identify tumor-type specific signatures by comparison of multiple tumor types through data sharing and analysis
Deposition of raw data of cancer proteomics datasets after publication in the public domain (eg., Proteome Exchange) to enable meta-analyses

Highlights in the field of cancer proteomics:

The proteomic landscape of several major human tumors (breast, colorectal, and ovarian cancer) was analyzed by the NCI-Cancer Proteomics Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) and published in high impact papers. Importantly, all data are publicly available
CPTAC goes international: agreements in place to characterize additional tumors in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, and United States

Upcoming Events:

RCPA: Clinical Mass Spectrometry Forum - Clinical Proteomics, Sydney, Australia, Feb 2019

RCPA: Pathology Update 2019, Melbourne, Australia, Feb 2019

The Omics Revolution: Beyond the Genome. Oaks Resort, Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia. 8th Sept 2019

AACR, Atlanta, GA, USA – Mar 30 – Apr 2, 2019

ASMS, Atlanta, GA, USA – June 3 – 7, 2019

EuPA, Potsdam, Germany, May 24-28, 2019

Links:

NCI EDRN http://edrn.nci.nih.gov/
NCI EDRN Specimen Reference Sets: PAR-13-036 “Utilizing the PLCO Biospecimens Resource to Bridge Gaps in Cancer Etiology and Early Detection Research (U01)” athttp://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-036.html
Cancer moonshot https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer-initiative
APOLLO Network - Applied Proteogenomics OrganizationaL Learning and Outcomes https://medium.com/cancer-moonshot/apollo-network-canserve-cancer-patients-through-collaboration-15a3530ed57e
MCP New Guidelines for Preparing Manuscripts Describing Research in Clinical Proteomics http://www.mcponline.org/site/cpmeeting/ProGuideIntro2.xhtml

Cancer-HPP Mailing List:

Are you involved in Cancer Research? Interested in the latest initiatives of the Cancer-HPP? If so, subscribe to the Cancer-HPP mailing list to receive initiative updates, news and meeting details.

The Cancer-HPP key aims are to:

1. Characterize proteomes, proteome forms, and protein networks from different cancers and the matched non-cancers through coordinated efforts of specimen collections and data acquisitions.

2. Identify cancer-specific proteins, protein forms, or protein networks from each cancer type and cancer-type-specific proteins, protein forms, and protein networks by comparison of multiple cancer types through data deposition, sharing, and data analysis.

3. Determine the protein-specific or protein-isoform-specific changes of cancer through the correlation studies of genomic and proteomic data through the comparison to the existing genomic data or the genomic data collected from each specimen.

4. Develop targeted assays to measure protein- or protein-form-specific changes for each tumor type to support the analysis of complex biological networks or clinical specimens underlying different disease processes.

5. Disseminate assays to the discovery labs to apply the targeted assays to the specimens from discovery specimens to verify the changes from discovery phase.

6. Validate the protein, protein forms, or protein network changes in independent specimens.

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