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
Anthony G. Letai, MD, PhD
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
Nolan A. Wages, 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.
2024-2025
Cochairs
Ryan B. Corcoran, MD, PhD
Jayesh Desai, MD
Members
Alex A. Adjei, MD, PhD
Nita Ahuja, MD
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
Luis A. Diaz, MD, FAACR
John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD
Reinhard Dummer, MD
Elena Elimova, MD
Marina Chiara Garassino, MD
Karen A. Gelmon, MD
Ramaswamy Govindan, MD
Jennifer Rubin Grandis, MD, FAACR
James L. Gulley, MD, PhD
Susan Halabi, PhD
Alice Y. Ho, MD, MBA
Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD, FAACR
Pasi A. Jänne, MD, PhD
Komal Jhaveri, MD
Steven K. Libutti, MD
Jia Liu, MD, PhD
Jason J. Luke, MD
Anirban Maitra, MBBS
Robert G. Maki, MD, PhD
Pamela N. Munster, MD
Natalie Ngoi, MBBS, MRCP, MMed
Eileen E. Parkes, PhD
D. William Parsons, MD, PhD
Evanthia Roussos-Torres, MD, PhD
Stephen C. Rubin, MD
Charles M. Rudin, MD, PhD
Hope S. Rugo, MD
Nader Sanai, MD, PhD
Howard I. Scher, MD
John H. Stewart, IV., MD, MBA
Ryan J. Sullivan, MD
Miguel A. Villalona-Calero, MD
Everett E. Vokes, MD
Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD, FAACR
Xifeng Wu, MD, PhD
Laurence Zitvogel, MD, PhD
Annual Meeting Education Committee
The Annual Meeting Education Committee plans and organizes the comprehensive educational program that takes place at the Annual Meeting.
2024-2025
Chair
Matthew G. Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
Cochairs
Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH
Elisabeth de Vries, MD, PhD
Carlo C. Maley, PhD
Kimberly Stegmaier, MD
Michael B. Yaffe, MD, PhD
Members
Michael R. Angelo, MD, PhD
Ami S. Bhatt, MD
Steven J. Chmura, MD, PhD
Bruce E. Clurman, MD, PhD
Dannielle Engle, PhD
Lucy A. Godley, MD, PhD
Wendy B. London, PhD
Klaus Pantel, MD, PhD
David B. Solit, MD
Christos Sotiriou, MD, PhD
Naoko Takebe, MD, PhD
Linghua Wang, MD, PhD
Jelani C. Zarif, PhD
Robert Zeiser, PhD