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 - 8:00 pm                  Scientific Presentations

8:00 - 8:15 pm                 Young Investigator Award Ceremony
                                          Presented by the CAHON Academic Committee

8:15 - 8:20 pm                 Closing Remarks
                                         Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD – CAHON Board Chair, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center  

8:20 – 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

1. 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)
2. Recognized as the first or senior author in the abstract or presentation presented at the 2025 AACR Annual Meeting.
3. 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 rgasparich@cahon.org by Friday, March 7, 2025