CTSOC Clinical Translational Science Ontology Consortium (CTSOC) 2026 Annual Meeting

Clinical Translational Science Ontology Consortium (CTSOC) Annual Meeting, September 15, 2026

All sessions are hybrid. For Zoom information, please fill out the registration form at: [1]

When: Tuesday, September 15, 2026, from 9:30 am–5:30 pm EDT.

Who: The Clinical Translational Science Ontology Consortium (CTSOC) [2] is a consortium of ontology developers and users from across the USA focused on using ontologies to promote the interoperability of biomedical data in clinical translational science.

What: The 2026 CTSOC Meeting is a two-part event with an in-person workshop session in the morning and a hybrid presentation session in the afternoon that will feature a series of talks on leveraging AI and ontologies in translational science. This is the second event in a series (details of the kickoff event are available here.)

Where: UB's National AI Institute for Exceptional Education Frontier Space Conference Room (address below, both morning and afternoon sessions) and via Zoom. Entrance is in the Lockwood Memorial Library building, Room 205, 433 Capen Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260.

Morning Sessions (Hybrid)

9:30 Introduction to the morning session

9:45 Fabricío Rodrigues (UB): The Translational Science Ontology

10:15 Christian Sprague (INCOSE): Towards an Ontology of Projects

10:45 Break

11:00 The Future of Common Data Elements, featuring:

11:00 Matt Diller CDEs at NIH

11:15 Barry Smith (UB): On the Characteristics of CDEs

11:30 Richard Ohrbach (UB): Creating CDEs for TMD

11:45 Vidhya Venkateswaran (NIH/NIDCR): The CDE Strategy for the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research

12:00 Lunch

Afternoon Sessions (Hybrid)

Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 1:00–5:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time

1:00 Welcome & Introduction

1:15 Alexander Diehl (UB): AI-Driven Advances in Cell Ontology Curation

1:30 Ryan Brinkman (SOULCAP): The Where Defines the What: Giving a Cell Label a Referent

1:45 Emily Steliotes (UB): Ontological Modeling of Maternal Milk Components and their Effect on the Developing Immune System

2:00 William Hogan (MCW): Building a Rehabilitation Ontology for AI-based Evaluation of Therapy Quality

2:15 Sebastian Duesing (UB): Automated Upper-Level Ontology Alignment Analysis

2:30 Oliver He (UMich): SEA CDM: Ontology-Supported Study-Experiment-Assay Common Data Model and Databases for Cross-Domain Data Integration and Analysis

2:45 Barry Smith (UB): Applying the Systems Ontology to Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases

3:00 Break

3:15 John Beverley (UB): Healthy Aging in PHASES

3:30 Tim Prudhomme (Independent): FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) in RDF and OWL

3:45 Sam Border (UB): The Pathology Image Feature Ontology

4:00 Yue Yu (Mayo Clinic): ACCELERATE-BASSO

4:15 Regina Hurley (UB): Update on the Injury Ontology

4:30 Ian Reinl (UB): Conversion of the International Classification of Headache Disorders into an Ontology

4:45 William Duncan (UF): Update on the Ontology of Dental Fear and Anxiety

5:00 Moiz Uddin Mohammed (UB): LLM Driven Entity Recognition, Ontology Mapping, and Knowledge Graph Construction for the Orofacial Pain Domain

5:15–5:30 Conclusion

The Clinical Translational Science Ontology Consortium and the Annual Meeting are co-sponsored by the University at Buffalo Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, University of Florida, University of Michigan, UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Medical College of Wisconsin.