SUNDAY, APRIL 19
8:15 a.m.-9:15 a.m.
100th ANNUAL MEETING OPENING CEREMONY
A commemoration of the 100 years of AACR Annual Meetings, plus presentations of several major awards including AACR Centennial Medals, the AACR Lifetime Achievement Award, the AACR Team Science Award, and the AACR-Margaret Foti Award.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 19
9:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
OPENING PLENARY SESSION
Chairperson: Michael A. Caligiuri, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH
What makes cancer stem cells tick?
John E. Dick, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
The cancer genome
Eric S. Lander, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Common SNPs and cancer susceptibility: Why the fuss?
Bruce A. J. Ponder, Cancer Research UK-Cambridge Research Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The importance of the tumor microenvironment in the initiation, promotion, and therapy of cancer
Mina J. Bissell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Control of tumor promotion and metastatic progression by inflammatory signaling
Michael Karin, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA
Bcl-2 family inhibitors for the treatment of cancer
Stephen W. Fesik, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL
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