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Program

Please note that this meeting will take place as an in-person event in Toronto 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. Please see the registration page for details.

CME credit is available for in-person attendance for the designated sessions. On-demand presentations are not eligible for CME.

All presentations are scheduled to be live, in-person presentations at the date and time specified below unless noted otherwise. Program in progress.

*-Short talk from proffered abstract

Thursday, September 5

Friday, September 6

Saturday, September 7

Sunday, September 8

Thursday, September 5

Opening Plenary Session
5-7 p.m.
CME-Eligible

  • Kimberly Stegmaier, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
  • AACR-St. Baldrick’s Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Fellowship Awardee Lecture
    Alanna J. Church, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 

OPENING RECEPTION
7-8:30 p.m.

Friday, September 6

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7-8 A.M.

plenary Session 1: Cancer Predisposition and the Causes of Cancer 
8-10 a.m.
CME-Eligible

  • Insights from replication repair deficient cancers on cancer initiation and vulnerability
    Uri Y. Tabori, SickKids, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Genetic predisposition to pediatric cancer: the long way from discovery to surveillance guidelines
    Franck Bourdeaut, Institut Curie, Paris, France 
  • Anita Villani, SickKids, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

BREAK
10-10:30 A.M.

Plenary Session 2: Precision Medicine for Pediatric Cancer: Beyond Sequencing 
10:30-12:30 p.m.
CME-Eligible

  • RNA-based platform as a diagnostic aid for childhood cancer
    Adam Shlien, SickKids, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Integrative proteogenomics for discovery of tumor-specific and neomorphic cancer proteomes
    Alex Kentsis, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
  • A federated functional precision initiative for relapsed refractory ALL
    Jean-Pierre Bourquin, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Additional speakers to be announced

Lunch Break (lunch on your own) 
12:30-2:30 p.m.

Plenary Session 3: Title to Announced
Session organized by the AACR Pediatric Cancer Working Group (PCWG)
2:30-4:30 p.m.
CME-Eligible

Poster Session A
4:30-7 p.m.

Saturday, September 7

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7-8 A.M.

Plenary Session 4: Circulating DNA and Other Novel Early Relapse Detection Tools
8-10 a.m.
CME-Eligible

  • Brian D. Crompton, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Liquid biopsy for pediatric cancer
    Cynthia E. Hawkins, SickKids, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
  • Opportunities and challenges for liquid biopsies in pediatric oncology 
    Gudrun Schleiermacher, Institut Curie, Paris, France 

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

BREAK
10-10:30 A.M.

Plenary Session 5: Pediatric Cancer Disparities
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
CME-Eligible

  • Disparities in access to pediatric cancer care
    Lena Winestone, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 
  • Disparities in childhood cancer outcomes: Can we move from describing to intervening?
    Sumit Gupta, SickKids, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Title to be announced
    Paula Aristizabal, University of California, San Diego, California

LUNCH BREAK (LUNCH ON YOUR OWN) 
12:30-2:30 P.M.

Plenary Session 6: Immunotherapy and Immunology 
2:30-4:30 p.m
CME-Eligible

  • Rayne H. Rouce, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 
  • GD2-specific CAR T cell therapies for pediatric solid cancers 
    Claudia Rossig, University Children’s Hospital Münster, Muenster, Germany 
  • Mapping microglia: Tumor crosstalk in pediatric brain cancer 
    Florent Ginhoux, Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR, Biopolis, Singapore 

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

Poster Session B
4:30-7 p.m

Saturday, September 8

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7-8 A.M.

Plenary Session 7: Emerging Therapies and Drug Resistance 
8-10 A.M.
CME-Eligible

  • Targeting chromatin complexes in cancer 
    Scott A. Armstrong, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 
  • Olivier Delattre, Institut Curie, Paris, France 
  • Pathobiology of asparaginase resistance  
    Alejandro Gutierrez, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Short talks selected from proffered abstracts

BREAK
10-10:30 A.M.

Plenary Session 8: New Strategies for Early Phase Clinical Trials 
10:30 A.m.-12:30 p.m.
CME-Eligible

  • How novel clinical research informs pediatric clinical trials
    Andrea A. Hayes, Howard University Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia 
  • Trial designs to find early signals of efficacy in rare pediatric cancers 
    Katherine A. Janeway, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 
  • James H. Doroshow, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
  • Gilles Vassal, Gustave Roussy, VIllejuif, France 

Closing Remarks 
12:30-12:45 p.m.

  • Alejandro Gutierrez, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 
  • Cynthia E. Hawkins, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
  • Andrea A. Hayes, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC 
  • Gilles Vassal, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France