The AACR Annual Meeting 2024 program may be accessed using the links below. Session recordings are no longer available for viewing.

Plenary Sessions

The highlight of the AACR Annual Meeting 2024 program was a full slate of paradigm-shifting plenary sessions featuring cutting-edge discoveries in a wide range of fields.

Saturday, April 6, 2024
Discovery Science in Early Cancer Biology and Interception
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Chair: Daniel D. De Carvalho, UHN Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Don W. Cleveland, UC San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, California
• Margaret A. Goodell, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
• Michael B. Kastan, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, North Carolina
• Kornelia Polyak, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

Sunday, April 7, 2024
Opening Plenary Session: Inspiring Science, Fueling Progress, Revolutionizing Care
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Chairs: Keith T. Flaherty, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Christina Curtis, Stanford University, Stanford, California

• Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Stanford University, Stanford, California
• Benjamin F. Cravatt, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
• Jakob N. Kather, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
• Aviv Regev, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California

Monday, April 8, 2024 | Read the Session Summary
Profiling Tumor Ecosystems in Native Tissue Context
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Chair: Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

• Michael Angelo, Stanford University, Stanford, California
• Susan Bullman, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington
• Joakim Lundeberg, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
• Peter K. Sorger, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 | Read the Session Summary
Evolution of the Genome, Microenvironment, and Host through Metastasis
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Chair: Cyrus M. Ghajar, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington

• Sarah-Maria Fendt, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium
• Christoph A. Klein, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
• David C. Lyden, Weill Cornell, New York, New York
• Dana Pe’er, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | Read the Session Summary
AI at the Interface: Accelerating Evidence Generation, Advancing Disparities Research, and Improving Trial Design
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Chair: Vivek Subbiah, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Nashville, Tennessee

• Thomas Clozel, Owkin, Geneva, Switzerland
• Maryellen J. Giger, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Mia A. Levy, Foundation Medicine Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Anant Madabhushi, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 | Read the Session Summary
AACR Annual Meeting 2024 Highlights: Vision for the Future
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Chairs: Keith T. Flaherty, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Christina Curtis, Stanford University, Stanford, California

• Mikala Egeblad, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
• Melissa A. Simon, Northwestern Univ. Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
• Ryan B. Corcoran, Massachusetts General Hospital, Weston, Massachusetts