Program
Please note that this meeting will take place as an in-person event in San Diego and will not live-stream content for virtual participation. The meeting content will be recorded and made available as an on-demand program after the conference.
All presentations are scheduled to be live, in-person presentations at the date and time specified below unless noted otherwise. Program in progress.
Thursday, January 14
- Welcome and Opening Session
- Plenary Session 1: Prevention, Risk, Early Detection & Screening
FRIDAY, JANUARY 15
- Career Development Roundtables/Meet the Expert
- Plenary Session 2: MRD & Adjuvant Disease—Resectable NSCLC Beyond Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Plenary Session 3: Innovations in Trial Design
- Plenary Session 4: Small Cell Lung Cancer I—Basic Mechanisms to Translational Advances
- Plenary Session 5: Small Cell Lung Cancer II—Clinical Advances and Emerging Therapies
- Plenary Session 6: Oncogene‑Driven Lung Cancer—From Biology to Treatment
- Lightning Talks (Session A)
- Poster Session A
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16
- Career Development Roundtables/Meet the Expert
- Keynote Address 2
- Plenary Session 7: Immuno‑Oncology—Mechanisms, Resistance, Combinations
- Plenary Session 8: Next‑Generation Novel Therapeutics in Lung Cancer
- Plenary Session 9: Squamous and Smoker‑Associated Lung Cancers—Biology to Clinic
- Plenary Session 10: New Frontiers in Lung Cancer Biology and Therapeutics
- Lightning Talks (Session B)
- Poster Session B
SUNDAY, JANUARY 17
- Keynote 3
- Plenary 11: Tumor Biology & Metabolism
- Plenary 12: Emerging Technologies—Spatial, Functional Genomics, Theranostics and AI
- Closing Remarks
REGISTRATION
4-8 p.m.
WELCOME AND OPENING Keynote
5:30-6:10 p.m.
- 5:30 p.m. | Welcome and Introduction
- 5:35 p.m. | Opening Keynote Address
Charles Swanton, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
Plenary Session 1: Prevention, Risk, Early Detection, and Screening
6:10–7:45 p.m.
- Christine D. Berg, NCI, Bethesda, MD (retired)
- David R. Baldwin, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Pan-Chyr Yang, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
OPENING RECEPTION
7:45-9 p.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND Career Development Roundtable PROFESSIONAL
7-8 a.m.
Plenary Session 2: MRD and Adjuvant Disease—Resectable NSCLC Beyond Neoadjuvant Therapy
8–9:55 a.m.
- Christine M. Lovly, City of Hope, Duarte, California
- Maximillian Diehn, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Patrick Forde, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Break
9:55-10:20 a.m.
Plenary Session 3: Innovations in Trial Design
10:20-11:55 a.m.
- Annie Chiang, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Benjamin Besse, Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris, France
- Thomas U. Marron, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Lunch (on your own)
11:55 a.m–1:30 p.m.
Plenary Session 4: Small Cell Lung Cancer I—Basic Mechanisms to Translational Advances
1:30-3:05 p.m.
- Trudy G. Oliver, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Matthew G. Oser, Dana‑Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachussetts
- Julien Sage, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Break
3:05–3:20 p.m.
Plenary Session 5: Small Cell Lung Cancer II—Clinical Advances and Emerging Therapies
3:20-4:55 p.m.
- Charles M. Rudin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
- Anna Farago, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California
- Caroline Dive, CRUK, Manchester, United Kingdom
Break
4:55-5:10 p.m.
Plenary Session 6: Oncogene‑Driven Lung Cancer—From Biology to Treatment
5:10-6:45 p.m.
- Katerina A. Politi, Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut
- Monte M. Winslow, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Lightning Talks (Session A)
6:45-7 p.m.
Poster Session A/Reception
7-9 p.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST AND Career Development Roundtable PROFESSIONAL
7-8 a.m.
Keynote Address 2
8-8:35 a.m.
- Miriam Merad, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
Plenary Session 7: Immuno‑Oncology—Mechanisms, Resistance, Combinations
8:35-10:10 a.m.
- Elizabeth M. Jaffee, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, Maryland
- Tina Cascone, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- Ramaswamy Govindan, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Break
10:10-10:25 a.m.
Plenary Session 8: Next‑Generation Novel Therapeutics in Lung Cancer
10:25 a.m.-12 p.m.
- Adrian G. Sacher, UHN Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada
- Daniel S. W. Tan, National Cancer Centre Singapore, Singapore
- Timothy A. Yap, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Lunch (on your own)
12-1:45 p.m.
Plenary Session 9: Squamous and Smoker‑Associated Lung Cancers—Biology to Clinic
1:45-3:15 p.m.
- Jianjun ‘Jay’ Zhang, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- Michael Ben Major, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
- Kathryn A. O’Donnell, UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
Break
3:15-3:30 p.m.
Plenary Session 10: New Frontiers in Lung Cancer Biology & Therapeutics
3:30-5 p.m.
- Leanne Li, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
- Tuomas Tammela, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
- Humam Kadara, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Lightning Talks (Session B)
5-5:30 p.m.
Poster Session B / Reception
5:30-7:30 p.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7-8 a.m.
Keynote Address 3
8-8:35 a.m.
- Tony S.K. Mok, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Plenary Session 11: Tumor Biology & Metabolism
8:35-10:10 a.m.
- Gina M. DeNicola, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida
- Reuben Shaw, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California
Break
10:10-10:30 a.m.
Plenary Session 12: Emerging Technologies—Spatial, Functional Genomics, Theranostics and AI
10:30 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
- Regina Barzilay, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Hugo Aerts, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Christina Curtis, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Closing Remarks
12:05 p.m.