Previous AACR Meetings: 2021
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium December 7-10, 2021Symposium Codirectors: Carlos L. Arteaga, Virginia G. KaklamaniProgram | Abstracts AACR-KCA Joint...
Cancer Policy Monitor: September 9, 2025
Congress Confronts NIH Budget Decisions as Shutdown Looms -Matt Gontarchick With government funding set to expire on September 30,...
Cancer Policy Monitor: June 11, 2024
Congressional Update -Benjamin Krinsky, PhD With appropriations season underway, the House of Representatives has begun consideration of fiscal year...
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Previous AACR Meetings: 2020
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium December 8-11, 2020Codirectors: Carlos L. Arteaga, Virginia G. Kaklamani, C. Kent OsborneSchedule at a...
Regulatory Science and Policy Track
The Regulatory Science and Policy track provides attendees with an opportunity to interact with the U.S. Food and Drug...
AACR Congressional Events
Throughout the year, the AACR hosts several congressional events designed to educate members of Congress and their staff about...
Cancer Policy Monitor: February 13, 2024
AACR Celebrates “FDA Legend” Janet Woodcock, MD After a remarkable 38 years of public service, Janet Woodcock, MD, has...
Cancer Policy Monitor: July 11, 2023
Appropriations Update from Capitol Hill After months of negotiation, congressional leaders and senior White House officials reached a bipartisan,...
Cancer Policy Monitor: May 10, 2022
May is National Cancer Research Month Appropriations Update from Capitol Hill An Op Ed on “How to Reduce Racial...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: The Distressing Intersection of the Pandemic and Noncommunicable Diseases
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken an enormous global toll. Worldwide, nearly 15 million cases of the disease have been reported,...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: Disparities During the Pandemic
At the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), we know that our mission to prevent and cure all cancers must encompass all...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: Dr. Fauci Launches Meeting with Keynote Address
The AACR Virtual Meeting: COVID-19 and Cancer opened Monday with a keynote address from the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Well...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Report: Patients, Policymakers, and Researchers Share Their Stories
Guest post by Patrick Williams, PhDAACR Scientific Research Analyst In a virtual Congressional briefing on February 9, 2022, the...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: Cancer Researchers Shift Focus to the Pandemic
In the global battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, cancer researchers are proving to be formidable forces. Armed with deep...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: A Roundup of Blog Posts
As the COVID-19 pandemic began crossing the globe, scientists from many disciplines anticipated its scope and deployed their research...
AACR Virtual Annual Meeting I: A Global Perspective of COVID-19 in Patients with Cancer
At the time of this writing, more than 3.3 million individuals have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and more than 222,000 have died from the...
Experts Forecast Cancer Research and Treatment Advances in 2021
2020 was filled with unexpected challenges for cancer research and patient care. As many of us shifted our lives...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: Developing Diagnostic Tests for SARS-CoV-2 Detection
“The development of tests that can identify individuals actively infected with SARS-CoV-2 is of obvious and utmost importance for...
AACR Annual Meeting 2021: Building COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence
Week 1 of the AACR Annual Meeting 2021 wrapped up on Thursday. The meeting drew more than 13,500 attendees...
AACR COVID-19 and Cancer Virtual Meeting: Tracking the Evolution and Spread of SARS-CoV-2
In January, when most of us in the United States were busy living the hustle and bustle of everyday life, one shrewd virologist and computer biologist saw...
“We Have to Be Involved” – A Preview of the AACR Virtual Meeting on COVID-19 and Cancer
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the United States and other parts of the world. To date, 13 million cases have been...
AACR Virtual Meeting I & II: Platforms for COVID-19 and Cancer Discussions
The COVID-19 pandemic remains at the center of health and science news as cases of the disease continue to rise...
AACR Releases Groundbreaking Report on COVID-19 and Cancer
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a devastating toll, with 5.8 million deaths worldwide, including nearly 1 million in the...
AACR Virtual Meeting on COVID-19 and Cancer: “Lightspeed” Vaccine Development—How Did They Do It?
On December 31, 2019, the first cases of “a pneumonia of unknown cause”—now known to be COVID-19—were reported in China, and the initial confirmed...
World Cancer Day: The AACR Supports Globalized Cancer Research Throughout the Pandemic
Editor’s note: Thursday, Feb. 4, marks World Cancer Day, an annual initiative led by the Union for International Cancer...
Closing the Cancer Disparities Gap Broadened by COVID-19
As COVID-19 cases and death rates fall, and in-person activities resume, cancer centers once again fill their beds with...
AACR Disparities Meeting: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
While cancer and COVID-19 are, biologically, very different diseases, they have shaken the world in surprisingly similar ways. Nearly...
Annual Meeting 2022: T Cells Provide Hope for Cancer Patients Facing COVID-19
Since COVID-19 first began its siege on the world, much of our scientific knowledge about the disease—and its source...