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Media Registration Now Open: AACR Annual Meeting 2025, April 25-30

CHICAGO – The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will host its 116th Annual Meeting from April 25-30, 2025, at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois. The meeting will be presented in a hybrid format, allowing participants to attend in person or virtually. Registration for the AACR Annual Meeting 2025 is complimentary for credentialed news media.

The AACR Annual Meeting is the critical driver of progress against cancer, offering scientists, clinicians, other healthcare professionals, survivors, patients, and advocates an opportunity to gather, share, and discuss the latest advances in cancer science and medicine. Following this year’s theme, “Unifying Cancer Science and Medicine: A Continuum of Innovation for Impact,” presentations at the meeting will span the entire field of cancer research, from population science and prevention to basic and translational research to late-breaking clinical trials.

The meeting will feature distinguished speakers from around the world, hundreds of invited talks, and more than 6,700 proffered papers. View the preliminary program online.

MEDIA REGISTRATION

Journalists may register to attend in person in Chicago or remotely through the virtual meeting platform. Journalists planning to cover the meeting must register through the AACR public relations team using the form linked below to receive the embargoed press program and other important communications.

Journalists must provide official press credentials and bylined coverage to register as press. Before requesting registration, please review the full media registration requirements and embargo policies.

Journalists can request registration by filling out this online form. Contact Kathleen Venango at [email protected] or 215-290-5408 with registration questions.

HOUSING

To book an individual or group housing reservation, visit the Accommodations and Travel section on the AACR Annual Meeting website. The deadline for reserving a hotel room is Friday, March 14.

For assistance, AACR Housing agents can be reached in the U.S. and Canada at 888-381-7166 or, for international callers, at 415-979-2262. Agents are available Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. ET.

EMBARGO POLICY

Individuals registered as press for the AACR Annual Meeting agree to abide by all embargoes. Please review the AACR’s embargo policy.

Abstracts will be posted to the online itinerary planner at the time embargoes lift. Below are the dates and times when embargoes lift:

  • Full regular abstracts – i.e., TITLES AND TEXT – will be published on March 25, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. ET.
  • Late-breaking and clinical trials abstracts TITLES ONLY (no text) will be published on March 25, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. ET.
  • Late-breaking and clinical trials abstracts TEXT will be published on April 25, 2025 at 12 p.m. CT/1 p.m. ET.

Abstracts selected for the official AACR Annual Meeting press program are embargoed until date and time of presentation during the Annual Meeting, either at an official AACR press conference or in a scientific session. Press program abstracts and press releases will be shared with registered reporters about a week in advance of the meeting and made publicly available once the embargo lifts.

CONTACT

For more information on press operations at the AACR Annual Meeting 2025, visit our newsroom or contact a member of the AACR public relations team: