A commemoration of the 100 years of AACR Annual Meetings, plus presentations of several major awards including AACR Centennial Medals, the AACR Lifetime Achievement Award, the AACR Team Science Award, and the AACR Margaret Foti Award.


Plenary Session: Opening Plenary Session

What makes cancer stem cells tick?; John E. Dick. Univ. Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

The cancer genome; Eric S. Lander. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

Common SNPs and cancer susceptibility: Why the fuss?; Bruce A. J. Ponder. Cancer Research UK-Cambridge Res. Inst., Cambridge, United Kingdom

The Importance of the tumor microenvironment in the initiation, promotion, and therapy of cancer; Mina J. Bissell. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

Control of tumor promotion and metastatic progression by inflammatory signaling; Michael Karin. University of California, San Diego, CA

Bcl-2 family inhibitors for the treatment of cancer; Stephen W. Fesik. Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL,