2025 Summer Symposium & Reception

Program Agenda | Meeting Organizers | Young Investigator Awards | Sponsors & Exhibitors

Date & Venue

Saturday, May 31, 2025
5:30 – 10:00 pm CDT

Metropolitan in Willis Tower
233 South Wacker Drive, 66^th Floor
Chicago, IL, 60606

Program Agenda

5:30 - 7:00 pm Doors and Registration Open, Social Gathering, Visit Exhibit Booths

7:00 – 7:45 pm CAHON Presentations

                             Opening Remarks and Board of Directors Update
                             Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD - Board Chair

                              CAHON Presidential Address and CAHON Updates
                              Liang Deng, MD, PhD - President

                              Updates on CAHON Journals
                              Delong Liu, MD, PhD - Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Hematology & Oncology

7:45 – 8:40 pm Scientific Presentations

8:40 - 8:55 pm Young Investigator Awards Ceremony
CAHON 2024-2026 Academic Committee

8:55 – 9:10 pm Closing Remarks
Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD, Board Chair & Liang Deng, MD, PhD, President

9:10 – 10:00 pm Social Gathering

Meeting Organizers

Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD – CAHON Board Chair Elect, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Liang Deng, MD, PhD – CAHON President Elect, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Delong Liu, MD, PhD - New York Medical College

Young Investigator Awards

To foster growth and achievement amongst CAHON’s early career or physician-in-training members, CAHON will award up to five Young Investigator Awards (YIA) based on the scientific merit of abstracts submitted to the 2025 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

Each awardee will receive $500 and a certificate. International recipients will receive a certificate.

Eligibility Criteria

Current CAHON member –Available to physicians-in-training, including residency or fellowship training (Associate Member Category, waived dues) or physicians within 3 years of fellowship training at the level of instructor or assistant professor (Active Member Category, dues $100 USD)
Recognized as the first or senior author in the abstract or presentation presented at the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting.
Availability to attend CAHON’s Young Investigator Award Ceremony during the 2025 Summer Symposium

Applications should include:

YIA Application Form
Accepted 2025 ASCO abstract including the abstract category (i.e., clinical, translational, etc.)
CV, including education and current training level or position

CAHON membership applications available at http://www.cahon.org/membership

Please submit all application materials to Rebecca Gasparich at rgas parich@cahon.org by Friday, May 2, 2025

Sponsors & Exhibitors

2025 Corporate Partners

2025 Annual Solid Tumor Support

2025 Annual Exhibitors

AstraZeneca

CAHON Members