Annual Meeting Committees
Annual Meeting Program Committee
The Program Committee, consisting of chairs and cochairs, is charged with planning and scheduling invited scientific sessions for the Annual Meeting. Additional subcommittee chairs and members are responsible for reviewing and scheduling all proffered abstracts submitted for presentation at the Annual Meeting.
2025-2026
Chairs
Paul S. Mischel, MD, FAACR
Alice T. Shaw, MD, PhD
Cochairs
Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH
Andrew T. Chan, MD, MPH
Benjamin F. Cravatt, PhD
Edna Cukierman, PhD
Kristen Dahlgren, BA
Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD, FAACR
Anjee Davis, MPPA
Jayesh Desai, MD
Maximilian Diehn, MD, PhD
Christopher R. Flowers, MD, MS
Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD
Todd R. Golub, MD, FAACR
Mithat Gönen, PhD
Benjamin Haibe-Kains, PhD
A. John Iafrate, MD, PhD
Jakob Nikolas Kather, MD
Christopher I. Li, MD, PhD
David C. Lyden, MD, PhD
Nicholas E. Navin, PhD
Nickolas Papadopoulos, PhD
Electra D. Paskett, PhD, MSPH, FAACR
Ravi B. Patel, MD, PhD
Barbara Pistilli, MD
Katerina A. Politi, PhD
Lynne-Marie Postovit, PhD
Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD
Sun Young Rha, MD, PhD
Charles W.M. Roberts, MD, PhD
Diane M. Simeone, MD
Peter K. Sorger, PhD
Julie Sutcliffe, PhD
Naoko Takebe, MD, PhD
Daniel S.W. Tan, MBBS, PhD
Katsuya Tsuchihara, MD, PhD
Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD
Colin D. Weekes, MD, PhD
Monte M. Winslow, PhD
Sue S. Yom, MD, PhD
Annual Meeting Clinical Trials Committee
The Clinical Trials Committee serves to identify, assess, recruit, and schedule clinical trials for presentation during the AACR Annual Meeting.
2025-2026
Cochairs
Jayesh Desai, MD
Ecaterina E. Dumbrava, MD
Members
Peter J. Allen, MD
Paolo A. Ascierto, MD
Christian Blank, MD, PhD
Erkut H. Borazanci, MD
Michael Cecchini, MD
Johann S. de Bono, MD, PhD
John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD
Reinhard Dummer, MD
Elena Elimova, MD
Marina Chiara Garassino, MD
Karen A. Gelmon, MD
Ramaswamy Govindan, MD
Alice Y. Ho, MD, MBA
Seock-Ah Im, MD, PhD
Pasi A. Jänne, MD, PhD
Komal Jhaveri, MD
Michael P. Link, MD
Jia (Jenny) Liu, MD, PhD
Jason J. Luke, MD
Michele Maio, MD, PhD
Anirban Maitra, MBBS
Rana R. McKay, MD
Natalie Ngoi, MBBS, MRCP, Mmed
Peter J. O’Dwyer, MBBCh, MD
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FAACR
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD
Eileen E. Parkes, MD, PhD
Christine Anne Pratilas, MD
Evanthis T. Roussos Torres, MD, PhD
Nader Sanai, MD, PhD
Lin Shen, MD
Diane M. Simeone, MD
Joseph A. Sparano, MD
Melanie Spears, PhD
Alexander I. Spira, MD, PhD
John H. Stewart, IV., MD, MBA
Ryan J. Sullivan, MD
Anna V. Tinker, MD, FRCPC
Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD
William N. William, Jr., MD
Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD
Michael B. Yaffe, MD, PhD
Emily Zabor, DrPH
Annual Meeting Education Committee
The Annual Meeting Education Committee plans and organizes the comprehensive educational program that takes place at the Annual Meeting.
2025-2026
Chair
Edna Cukierman, PhD
Cochairs
Benjamin Haibe-Kains, PhD
A. John Iafrate, MD, PhD
Electra D. Paskett, PhD, MSPH, FAACR
Members
Samuel F. Bakhoum, MD, PhD
Mario Paolo Colombo, PhD
Michael A. Erb, PhD
Meghan C. Ferrall-Fairbanks, PhD
Marcus DaSilva Goncalves, MD, PhD
Jennifer L. Guerriero, PhD
Michael P. Link, MD
Adana A.M. Llanos, PhD, MPH
Massimo Loda, MD
Kara N. Maxwell, MD, PhD
Alan Hunter Shain, PhD
Jason A. Somarelli, PhD
Nolan A. Wages, PhD
Ashani T. Weeraratna, PhD
Teresa A. Zimmers, PhD