NEW 2025 Spring Symposium & Reception

Program Agenda | Meeting Organizers | Young Investigator Awards

Date & Venue

Friday, April 25, 2025
6:30 - 9:30 pm

Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
2233 S Martin Luther King Dr.
Chicago, IL 60616

Program Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 pm Doors and Registration Open, Social Gathering

7:00 – 7:30 pm                Opening Remarks and Introduction of VIP Guests
                                          Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD – CAHON Board Chair, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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

                                          CAHON Presidential Address
                                          Liang Deng, MD, PhD – CAHON President, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

7:30 - 7:40 pm Introduction of VIP Guests
RuiRong Yuan, MD, PhD - CAHON Immediate Past Board Chair

7:40 - 8:00 pm AACR / CAHON Task Force Panel Discussion

8:00 - 8:20 pm International Collaboration Panel

8:20 - 8:35 pm Young Investigator Award Ceremony
Presented by the CAHON Academic Committee

8:35 - 8:40 pm Closing Remarks
Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD – CAHON Board Chair, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

8:40 – 9:30 pm Social Gathering

*Food and drinks will be provided throughout the symposium

Meeting Organizers

Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD – CAHON Board Chair, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Liang Deng, MD, PhD – CAHON President, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
RuiRong Yuan, MD, PhD – VA Medical Center
Lei Zheng, MD, PhD - Johns Hopkins University

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 Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting.

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

Eligibility Criteria

Available to current CAHON Members or Non-members sponsored/referred by a current Regular/Active CAHON member.
Recognized as the first or senior author in the abstract or presentation presented at the 2025 AACR Annual Meeting.
Availability to attend CAHON’s Young Investigator Award Ceremony during the 2025 Spring Symposium

Applications should include:

YIA Application Form
Accepted 2025 AACR abstract including the abstract category
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, March 7, 2025