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.
2026-2027
Chairs
Sheila A. Stewart, PhD
Kurt Schalper, MD, PhD
Members
Peter D. Adams, PhD
Olga A. Anczukow-Camarda, PhD
Annette Bakker, PhD
Vinod P. Balachandran, MD
Pratiti (Mimi) Bandopadhayay, MBBS, PhD
Monica L. Baskin, PhD
Christine Chaffer, PhD
Alessio Ciulli, PhD
Thomas Cox, PhD
David G. Denardo, PhD
Medha Deoras-Sutliff, MS
Ecaterina Ileana Dumbrava, MD
Benjamin L. Ebert, MD, PhD, FAACR
Elana J. Fertig, PhD
Claudia Fischbach, PhD
Ana P. Gomes, PhD
Scarlett L. Gomez, PhD, MPH
Denis C. Guttridge, PhD
Melissa M. Hudson, MD
Philip Jones, PhD
Erik S. Knudsen, PhD
Ross L. Levine, MD, FAACR
Charlie Limoli, PhD
Xin Lu, PhD
Andy J. Minn, MD, PhD
Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS (Hons), MSc, MD
Masanobu Oshima, DVM, PhD
Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD
David R. Piwnica-Worms, MD, PhD
Jorge S. Reis-Filho, MD, PhD
Ruibao Ren, MD, PhD
Miguel F. Sanmamed, MD, PhD
Mike Machaba Sathekge, MBChB, MMed, PhD
Clemens A. Schmitt, MD
Ruth Scherz-Shouval, PhD
Victoria L. Seewaldt, MD
Brendon M. Stiles, MD
Kenneth K. Tanabe, MD
Kala Visvanathan, MD, MHS
Jennifer A. Wargo, MD, FAACR
Ashani T. Weeraratna, PhD
Brian M. Wolpin, MD, MPH
Ad Hoc Advisors
Ludmil B. Alexandrov, PhD
Kira Bona, MD, MPH
James E. Bradner, MD
Greg M. Delgoffe, PhD
Bettina F. Drake, PhD
Michael A. Erb, PhD
Cyrus M. Ghajar, PhD
Maria Jasin, PhD, FAACR
Cynthia X. Ma, MD, PhD
Anirban Maitra, MBBS
Marcela V. Maus, MD, PhD
Nicholas McGranahan, PhD
Michelle Monje-Deisseroth, MD, PhD
Daniel K. Nomura, PhD
Wolfgang Wick, MD
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
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
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