Program
The AACR Annual Meeting 2025 program and virtual content may be accessed using the links below. For more information about these resources, visit the Meeting Resources page.
On-Demand Virtual Meeting / e-Poster Access
Annual Meeting registrants may now access session recordings and e-posters through Friday, October 31. Registration remains open through Monday, June 30 to new users who wish to purchase access to these resources. Users who purchase access by June 30 will be able to view the sessions and posters through October 31.
Plenary Sessions
The highlight of the AACR Annual Meeting 2025 program was a full slate of paradigm-shifting plenary sessions featuring cutting-edge discoveries in a wide range of fields.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Discovery Science Plenary Session: Novel Mechanisms Influencing Cancer Evolution
Read the Session Summaries: Annual Meeting News | AACR Blog
Chair: Ashok R. Venkitaraman, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, Singapore
- Inigo Martincorena, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- M. Celeste Simon, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Yang Shi, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Nicola Segata, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Opening Plenary Session: Unifying Cancer Science and Medicine—A Continuum of Innovation for Impact
Read the Session Summaries: Annual Meeting News | AACR Blog
Chairs: Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lillian L. Siu, UHN Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Kevan M. Shokat, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
- Paul S. Mischel, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Johanna A. Joyce, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland
- Catherine J. Wu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Monday, April 28, 2025
Innovative Technologies Driving Advances in Cancer Research
Read the Session Summaries: Annual Meeting News | AACR Blog
Chair: Alberto Bardelli, IFOM/University of Turin, Turin, Italy
- Matthias P. Lütolf, Roche Institute of Human Biology, Basel, Switzerland
- Marcela V. Maus, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Trevor J. Pugh, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre / Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Muhammad Shaalan Beg, National Cancer Institute and UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Targeting the Cancer Ecosystem
Read the Session Summaries: Annual Meeting News | AACR Blog
Chair: Mara H. Sherman, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
- Yardena Samuels, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Matthew F. Krummel, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
- Kurt Alex Schalper, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Mariam Jamal-Hanjani, University College London (UCL) Cancer Institute, London, United Kingdom
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Opportunities in Predictive Oncology
Read the Session Summaries: Annual Meeting News | AACR Blog
Chair: David W. Craig, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, California
- Andrea Califano, Columbia University, New York, New York
- Christina Curtis, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Marleen Kok, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Trey Ideker, UC San Diego, La Jolla, California