The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution

The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution

Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Aviv Regev, Philipp Oberdoerffer, Tal Nawy, Anna Hupalowska, Jennifer E. Rood, Orr Ashenberg, Ethan Cerami, Robert J. Coffey, Emek Demir, Li Ding, Edward D. Esplin, James M. Ford, Jeremy Goecks, Sharmistha Ghosh, Joe W. Gray, Justin Guinney, Sean E. Hanlon, Shannon K. Hughes, E. Shelley Hwang, Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, Judit Jané-Valbuena, Bruce E. Johnson, Ken S. Lau, Tracy Lively, Sarah A. Mazzilli, Dana Pe’er, Sandro Santagata, Alex K. Shalek, Denis Schapiro, Michael P. Snyder, Peter K. Sorger, Avrum E. Spira, Sudhir Srivastava, Kai Tan, Robert B. West, Elizabeth H. Williams, Denise Aberle, Samuel I. Achilefu, Foluso O. Ademuyiwa, Andrew C. Adey, Rebecca L. Aft, Rachana Agarwal, Ruben A. Aguilar, Fatemeh Alikarami, Viola Allaj, Christopher Amos, Robert A. Anders, Michael R. Angelo, Kristen Anton, Orr Ashenberg, Jon C. Aster, Ozgun Babur, Amir Bahmani, Akshay Balsubramani, David Barrett, Jennifer Beane, Diane E. Bender, Kathrin Bernt, Lynne Berry, Courtney B. Betts, Julie Bletz, Katie Blise, Adrienne Boire, Genevieve Boland, Alexander Borowsky, Kristopher Bosse, Matthew Bott, Ed Boyden, James Brooks, Raphael Bueno, Erik A. Burlingame, Qiuyin Cai, Joshua Campbell, Wagma Caravan, Ethan Cerami, Hassan Chaib, Joseph M. Chan, Young Hwan Chang, Deyali Chatterjee, Ojasvi Chaudhary, Alyce A. Chen, Bob Chen, Changya Chen, Chia-hui Chen, Feng Chen, Yu-An Chen, Milan G. Chheda, Koei Chin, Roxanne Chiu, Shih-Kai Chu, Rodrigo Chuaqui, Jaeyoung Chun, Luis Cisneros, Robert J. Coffey, Graham A. Colditz, Kristina Cole, Natalie Collins, Kevin Contrepois, Lisa M. Coussens, Allison L. Creason, Daniel Crichton, Christina Curtis, Tanja Davidsen, Sherri R. Davies, Ino de Bruijn, Laura Dellostritto, Angelo De Marzo, Emek Demir, David G. DeNardo, Dinh Diep, Li Ding, Sharon Diskin, Xengie Doan, Julia Drewes, Stephen Dubinett, Michael Dyer, Jacklynn Egger, Jennifer Eng, Barbara Engelhardt, Graham Erwin, Edward D. Esplin, Laura Esserman, Alex Felmeister, Heidi S. Feiler, Ryan C. Fields, Stephen Fisher, Keith Flaherty, Jennifer Flournoy, James M. Ford, Angelo Fortunato, Allison Frangieh, Jennifer L. Frye, Robert S. Fulton, Danielle Galipeau, Siting Gan, Jianjiong Gao, Long Gao, Peng Gao, Vianne R. Gao, Tim Geiger, Ajit George, Gad Getz, Sharmistha Ghosh, Marios Giannakis, David L. Gibbs, William E. Gillanders, Jeremy Goecks, Simon P. Goedegebuure, Alanna Gould, Kate Gowers, Joe W. Gray, William Greenleaf, Jeremy Gresham, Jennifer L. Guerriero, Tuhin K. Guha, Alexander R. Guimaraes, Justin Guinney, David Gutman, Nir Hacohen, Sean Hanlon, Casey R. Hansen, Olivier Harismendy, Kathleen A. Harris, Aaron Hata, Akimasa Hayashi, Cody Heiser, Karla Helvie, John M. Herndon, Gilliam Hirst, Frank Hodi, Travis Hollmann, Aaron Horning, James J. Hsieh, Shannon Hughes, Won Jae Huh, Stephen Hunger, Shelley E. Hwang, Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, Heba Ijaz, Benjamin Izar, Connor A. Jacobson, Samuel Janes, Judit Jané-Valbuena, Reyka G. Jayasinghe, Lihua Jiang, Brett E. Johnson, Bruce Johnson, Tao Ju, Humam Kadara, Klaus Kaestner, Jacob Kagan, Lukas Kalinke, Robert Keith, Aziz Khan, Warren Kibbe, Albert H. Kim, Erika Kim, Junhyong Kim, Annette Kolodzie, Mateusz Kopytra, Eran Kotler, Robert Krueger, Kostyantyn Krysan, Anshul Kundaje, Uri Ladabaum, Blue B. Lake, Huy Lam, Rozelle Laquindanum, Ken S. Lau, Ashley M. Laughney, Hayan Lee, Marc Lenburg, Carina Leonard, Ignaty Leshchiner, Rochelle Levy, Jerry Li, Christine G. Lian, Kian-Huat Lim, Jia-Ren Lin, Yiyun Lin, Qi Liu, Ruiyang Liu, Tracy Lively, William J.R. Longabaugh, Teri Longacre, Cynthia X. Ma, Mary Catherine Macedonia, Tyler Madison, Christopher A. Maher, Anirban Maitra, Netta Makinen, Danika Makowski, Carlo Maley, Zoltan Maliga, Diego Mallo, John Maris, Nick Markham, Jeffrey Marks, Daniel Martinez, Robert J. Mashl, Ignas Masilionais, Jennifer Mason, Joan Massagué, Pierre Massion, Marissa Mattar, Richard Mazurchuk, Linas Mazutis, Sarah A. Mazzilli, Eliot T. McKinley, Joshua F. McMichael, Daniel Merrick, Matthew Meyerson, Julia R. Miessner, Gordon B. Mills, Meredith Mills, Suman B. Mondal, Motomi Mori, Yuriko Mori, Elizabeth Moses, Yael Mosse, Jeremy L. Muhlich, George F. Murphy, Nicholas E. Navin, Tal Nawy, Michel Nederlof, Reid Ness, Stephanie Nevins, Milen Nikolov, Ajit Johnson Nirmal, Garry Nolan, Edward Novikov, Philipp Oberdoerffer, Brendan O’Connell, Michael Offin, Stephen T. Oh, Anastasiya Olson, Alex Ooms, Miguel Ossandon, Kouros Owzar, Swapnil Parmar, Tasleema Patel, Gary J. Patti, Dana Pe’er, Itsik Pe er, Tao Peng, Daniel Persson, Marvin Petty, Hanspeter Pfister, Kornelia Polyak, Kamyar Pourfarhangi, Sidharth V. Puram, Qi Qiu, Álvaro Quintanal-Villalonga, Arjun Raj, Marisol Ramirez-Solano, Rumana Rashid, Ashley N. Reeb, Aviv Regev, Mary Reid, Adam Resnick, Sheila M. Reynolds, Jessica L. Riesterer, Scott Rodig, Joseph T. Roland, Sonia Rosenfield, Asaf Rotem, Sudipta Roy, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Charles M. Rudin, Marc D. Ryser, Sandro Santagata, Maria Santi-Vicini, Kazuhito Sato, Denis Schapiro, Deborah Schrag, Nikolaus Schultz, Cynthia L. Sears, Rosalie C. Sears, Subrata Sen, Triparna Sen, Alex Shalek, Jeff Sheng, Quanhu Sheng, Kooresh I. Shoghi, Martha J. Shrubsole, Yu Shyr, Alexander B. Sibley, Kiara Siex, Alan J. Simmons, Dinah S. Singer, Shamilene Sivagnanam, Michal Slyper, Michael P. Snyder, Artem Sokolov, Sheng-Kwei Song, Peter K. Sorger, Austin Southard-Smith, Avrum Spira, Sudhir Srivastava, Janet Stein, Phillip Storm, Elizabeth Stover, Siri H. Strand, Timothy Su, Damir Sudar, Ryan Sullivan, Lea Surrey, Mario Suvà, Kai Tan, Nadezhda V. Terekhanova, Luke Ternes, Lisa Thammavong, Guillaume Thibault, George V. Thomas, Vésteinn Thorsson, Ellen Todres, Linh Tran, Madison Tyler, Yasin Uzun, Anil Vachani, Eliezer Van Allen, Simon Vandekar, Deborah J. Veis, Sébastien Vigneau, Arastoo Vossough, Angela Waanders, Nikhil Wagle, Liang-Bo Wang, Michael C. Wendl, Robert West, Elizabeth H. Williams, Chi-yun Wu, Hao Wu, Hung-Yi Wu, Matthew A. Wyczalkowski, Yubin Xie, Xiaolu Yang, Clarence Yapp, Wenbao Yu, Yinyin Yuan, Dadong Zhang, Kun Zhang, Mianlei Zhang, Nancy Zhang, Yantian Zhang, Yanyan Zhao, Daniel Cui Zhou, Zilu Zhou, Houxiang Zhu, Qin Zhu, Xiangzhu Zhu, Yuankun Zhu, and Xiaowei Zhuang.

Cell, 2020.

Crucial transitions in cancer—including tumor initiation, local expansion, metastasis, and therapeutic resistance—involve complex interactions between cells within the dynamic tumor ecosystem. Transformative single-cell genomics technologies and spatial multiplex in situ methods now provide an opportunity to interrogate this complexity at unprecedented resolution. The Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN), part of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Moonshot Initiative, will establish a clinical, experimental, computational, and organizational framework to generate informative and accessible three-dimensional atlases of cancer transitions for a diverse set of tumor types. This effort complements both ongoing efforts to map healthy organs and previous large-scale cancer genomics approaches focused on bulk sequencing at a single point in time. Generating single-cell, multiparametric, longitudinal atlases and integrating them with clinical outcomes should help identify novel predictive biomarkers and features as well as therapeutically relevant cell types, cell states, and cellular interactions across transitions. The resulting tumor atlases should have a profound impact on our understanding of cancer biology and have the potential to improve cancer detection, prevention, and therapeutic discovery for better precision-medicine treatments of cancer patients and those at risk for cancer.