INRG Task Force

The INRG task force has continued to expand the data available in the database and the research conducted with those data. The task force includes 159 people from 26 countries.

Recent INRG Task Force meetings:
May 24, 2025 – Washington, DC
May 14, 2023 – Amsterdam
September 13, 2022
March 9, 2021

The activities of the task force are directed by the INRG Executive Committee, chaired by Julie Park, Gudrun Schleiermacher, Meredith Irwin, and Lucas Moreno. 

The work is accomplished through these committees:

  • Biology, co- chaired by Sabine Taschner-Mandl, Matthias Fischer and Meredith Irwin with Gudrun Schleiermacher (advisor)
  • Data, co-chaired by Mark Applebaum and Carolina Rosswog
  • Relapse, co-chaired by Meg Macy and Pablo Berlanga
  • Statistics, co-chaired by Wendy London and Urlike Pötschger
  • Strategy Development, co-chaired by Sara Federico, Daniel Morgenstern, and Lieve Tytgat

INRG Committee chart showing INRG Executive Committee on the first line and the Biology, Data, Relapse, Statistics, and Strategy Development committees on the second line.

The INRG task force owes credit and thanks to the cooperative groups who generously contribute their data and their time to the database and projects:

  • COG (Children’s Oncology Group, Neuroblastoma Disease Committee), Ro Bagatell
  • SIOPEN (Society of Paediatric Oncology European Neuroblastoma Network), Lucas Moreno
  • GPOH (German Cooperative Neuroblastoma Trials), Simon Thorsten
  • JNBSG (Japanese Neuroblastoma Study Group), Takehiko Kamijo (including: the Japanese Advanced Neuroblastoma Study Group [JANB], the Japanese Infantile Neuroblastoma Co-operative Study Group [JINCS])
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Sara Federico

The INRG database is pleased to be part of the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons, led by PI Samuel Volchenboum.

Please refer to the Leadership page for a complete list of the INRG Executive Committee members.