Cancer Policy Monitor: October 12, 2021
Appropriations Update from Capitol Hill TODAY! AACR Virtual Patient Advocate Forum: The Potential of Big Data and Machine Learning...
AACR Letters to Congress
AACR Thanks Dr. Fauci remarkable leadership during the COVID-19 health crisis (May 28, 2020) AACR Letter to President Trump and...
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...
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...
Media Resources
Learn more about the AACR, what we do, and who we are. This page contains officer biographies, photos, and...
Addressing Advocacy at the Bench
Patient engagement is a valuable tool to increase research efficiencies and lower health inequities. The challenge lies in moving...
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: July 2021
Appropriations Update from Capitol Hill Affordable Care Act Upheld by The Supreme Court Biden Administration, Congress Look to Advance...
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 Congressional Events
Throughout the year, the AACR hosts several congressional events designed to educate members of Congress and their staff about...
AACR Fundraising Goes Virtual
The social distancing requirements to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus have affected a great number of things,...
Letter from Our Chief Philanthropic Officer
Dear Friend of the AACR, In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic provoked significant challenges to the cancer research community—and yet,...
Press Program 2022
The AACR Annual Meeting 2022 press program included three in-person press conferences featuring nine newsworthy studies from the Annual...
Precision Oncology Advances in 2020: Looking Ahead to 2021
AACR Virtual Patient Advocate Forum Precision Oncology Advances in 2020: Looking Ahead to 2021 February 16, 2021 The COVID-19...
Patient Advocate Posters
Cancer survivors and patient advocates provide valuable insight throughout the research continuum to inform scientific discovery, public policy, and...
MICR Virtual Professional Advancement Session: Why Should I Hire You and Why Should I Retain You?
Co-Chairs:John D. Carpten, PhD, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California Sanya A. Springfield, PhD, NCI-CRCHD, Rockville, Maryland...
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...
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...
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...