AACR Annual Meeting 2026 Press Program
The American Association for Cancer Research is hosting its 117th Annual Meeting from April 17-22, 2026, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
The AACR Annual Meeting is the focal point of the cancer research community. This year’s meeting, to be held April 17-22, will offer approximately 22,000 researchers, physicians, and advocates from around the world an opportunity to share and discuss the latest advances in basic, translational, and clinical cancer research and cancer-related population sciences.
To help reporters plan coverage of the meeting, the AACR prepared the following press program.
PRESS CONFERENCE 1
AACR Annual Meeting Clinical Trials Committee Cochair Jayesh Desai, MD, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, moderated the first press conference.
- Presented by Byoung Chul Cho, MD, PhD, Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine
- Presented by Jonathan W. Riess, MD, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
New Antibody-drug Conjugate Shows Clinical Benefit for Advanced Platinum-resistant Ovarian Cancer
- Presented by Tao Zhu, MD, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital
PRESS CONFERENCE 2
AACR Annual Meeting Clinical Trials Committee Cochair Ecaterina E. Dumbrava, MD, moderated the second press conference.
BCMA-directed CAR T-cell Therapy May Be Effective Against High-risk Smoldering Multiple Myeloma
- Presented by Omar Nadeem, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School.
- Presented by Marco A. De Velasco, PhD, Kindai University in Japan
- Presented by Rukhmini Bandyopadhyay, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
PRESS CONFERENCE 3
AACR Annual Meeting Clinical Trials Committee Cochair Ecaterina E. Dumbrava, MD, moderated the second press conference.
Early Myocarditis Onset After Immunotherapy May Predict Treatment-related Fatality
- Presented by Hassan M. Abushukair, MD, Oklahoma University Stephenson Cancer Center
Intralesional Nivolumab May Be Effective Against Precancerous Oral Lesions
- Presented by Moran Amit, MD, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Exposure to Wildfire Smoke May Be Linked To Increased Risk of Developing Several Cancers
- Presented by Shuguang Leng, MBBS, PhD, The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center