On April 25 to 30, experts from NYU Langone Health will join colleagues from around the world at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Below are notable sessions featuring our faculty and trainees. For a full list of presentations, visit the AACR website.

Sunday, April 27

Poster
1133/19 – Molecular evolution patterns in primary versus recurrent adult gliomas: A multi-institutional study from Project GENIE
Presenter: Abhishek Bhattacharya, MD
Session: AACR Project GENIE Use Cases
Time: 2:00–5:00PM
Location: Section 48

Monday, April 28

Poster
2105/8 – Characterization of oral carcinoma risk in patients with oral epithelial lesions employing an AI-assisted cytopathology-on-a-chip platform
Presenter: Kritika Srinivasan Rajsri, PhD
Session: Spatial Proteomics and Transcriptomics 3: Other Topics/Biomarkers
Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM
Location: Section 33

Poster
3579/4 – Racial disparity in microbial risk score for predicting subsequent risk of head and neck squamous cell cancer
Presenter: Soyoung Kwak, PhD
Session: Cancer Disparities: Environmental, Microbiome, and Tumor Biology
Time: 2:00–5:00PM
Location: Section 43

Poster
3249/14 – The development of a tissue-agnostic genome-wide methylome enrichment assay for lung cancer
Presenter: Harvey I. Pass, MD
Session: Liquid Biopsy: Circulating Nucleic Acids 1
Time: 2:00–5:00PM
Location: Section 29

Minisymposium
3751 – A pan-cancer intracellular tumor antigen atlas
Presenter: Guangyuan Li, PhD
Session: Characterizing Tumor as Complex Systems with Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Time: 3:05–3:20PM
Location: Room S100 BC (Grand Ballroom BC) – McCormick Place South (Level 1)

Tuesday, April 29

Poster
4703/1 – EGFR is a promising therapeutic target in NF1 mutant melanoma
Presenter: Milad Ibrahim, PhD
Session: Targeted Therapies and Combinations 2
Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM
Location: Section 34

Poster
4426/29 – Chromatin constraints underpin adeno-to-squamous cell state transitions during acquired resistance to KRAS inhibition
Presenter: Ayushi S. Patel
Session: Regulation of Gene Expression in Drug Resistance
Time: 9:00AM–12:00PM
Location: Section 22

Poster
5922/14 – B cell subtype is a predictive and pharmacodynamic biomarkers for combination therapy in stage III-IV melanoma: a simon phase II trial
Presenter: Teruyuki Mizutani, MD, PhD
Session: Predictive Biomarkers 6/ Diagnostic Biomarkers 3
Time: 2:00–5:00PM
Location: Section 32

Wednesday, April 30

Major Symposium
SY20-01 – Programming the lymphatic state to maintain immune surveillance and limit regional metastasis
Presenter: Amanda W. Lund, PhD
Session: Hubs of Anti-Tumor Immunity: Lymph Nodes and Lymphoid Structures
Time: 10:20–10:40AM
Location: Room S401 – McCormick Place South (Level 4)