The SNO-NCI Joint Symposium: “Targeting CNS Tumor Metabolism” will foster collaboration in the area of metabolism which will positively influence outcomes for patients with CNS cancers. This is the first conference that focuses on the tumor metabolism and it is expected to be both didactic as well as a collegial learning environment with the goal to enhance partnerships and advance the treatment for patients.  Metabolic investigations for these tumors have been conducted in isolation and the goal of this meeting is to bring together the clinicians with the experts in metabolism in order to increase the utilization of metabolic investigations in the clinical settings.