AACR to Host Special Conference on AI and Machine Learning

MONTREAL – The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will host the AACR Special Conference: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Montreal, Québec, Canada from July 10-12, 2025.

This conference will highlight the immense potential that artificial intelligence (AI) has shown to transform oncology, featuring presentations on AI applications in clinical trials, drug design, drug repurposing, treatment response prediction, and basic research to deepen our understanding of cancer biology.

View the full conference program and abstracts on the AACR’s website.

PRESENTATIONS OF INTEREST

The AACR Communications and Public Relations Team has identified five noteworthy abstracts reflecting key themes from the conference that may be of interest to the media:

Gaining New Oncogenic Insights

• Learning the Language of Somatic Mutations: A Large Language Model Approach to Precision Oncology
  Presenter: John-William Sidhom, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine

Aiding Tumor Classification and Response Prediction to Guide Precision Medicine

• Inferring genomic properties and histologic subtypes of solid tumors from H&E whole-slide images
  Presenter: Kevin Boehm, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Spatially resolved drug response predictions reveal fibroblast-associated resistances in in situ lung cancer samples
  Presenter: Robert Gruener, PhD, University of Minnesota

Enhancing Clinical Trials

• Digital Controls: An Efficient, Robust, and Privacy-Preserving Bayesian Tool for Adaptive Information Borrowing from External Data
  Presenter: Ruitao Lin, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Multimodal generative AI jointly learns pathology and clinical data to synthesize a multinational lung cancer cohort
  Presenter: Samantha Riesenfeld, PhD, University of Chicago

To request interviews with the presenters or meeting organizers, please contact Kathleen Medora at [email protected] or 215-290-5408.

MEDIA REGISTRATION

Registration is complimentary for credentialed members of the media. This conference will take place as an in-person event and will not be streamed for virtual participation. Lecture sessions will be made available for on-demand viewing approximately 7-14 days after the meeting has ended.

To request in-person registration or on-demand access, please review the AACR’s press registration policy and register online.