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AACR Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the largest and most important annual scientific meeting covering the full spectrum of cancer research. Each year more than 15,000 participants from 60 countries gather to present and discuss basic, translational, and clinical research in every subdiscipline.

2007 Annual Meeting
April 14-18, 2007
Los Angeles, CA

Program Chairperson: Ronald A. DePinho, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts

For complete information about the 2007 AACR Annual Meeting, visit the 2006 Annual Meeting home page.

97th Annual Meeting
April 1-5, 2006
Washington, DC

Program Chairperson: Daniel A. Haber, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Charleston, Massachusetts

• Educational Sessions / Methods Workshops. Part of the Educational Program held on the first day of the meeting (and the source of presentations for the AACR Education Book), these sessions covered a broad range of new knowledge in cancer research for both early-career and senior scientists.

• Meet-the-Expert Sunrise Sessions. Interactive sessions featured leaders in cancer research presenting the latest findings in critical areas and discussing them with the audience.

• Minisymposia. These sessions enabled the authors of proffered abstracts to deliver oral presentations of their work and to engage in a discussion of the work with the audience.

• New Concepts in Organ Site Research. State-of-the-art overviews of current research in 14 specific organ sites, presenting new findings in basic, translational, and clinical research and discussing future challenges and opportunities.

• Poster Sessions. These sessions presented proffered abstracts grouped into topics of interest with an emphasis on group discussion.

• Symposia. These sessions featured detailed presentations on timely topics by leading experts in various fields as well as periods for extended discussion.

• Forums. These sessions addressed provocative issues in the cancer community by presenting multiple viewpoints from leaders in the field.

For more information about the 2006 AACR Annual Meeting, visit the 2006 Annual Meeting home page.

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96th Annual Meeting
April 16-20, 2005
Anaheim, California

Program Chairperson: Michael B. Kastan, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee

The 2005 Annual Meeting was the largest in the history of the AACR. Over 15,600 people gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center to participate in 450 sessions that featured over 6,000 abstract presentations and more than 400 invited speakers.

For more information about the 2005 AACR Annual Meeting, visit the 2005 Annual Meeting home page.

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95th Annual Meeting
March 27-31, 2004
Orlando, Florida

Program Chairperson: Geoffrey M. Wahl, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California

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Future AACR Annual Meetings

98th Annual Meeting: April 14-18, 2007, Los Angeles, California

99th Annual Meeting: April 12-16, 2008, San Diego, California

100th Annual Meeting: April 18-22, 2009, Denver, Colorado