12th Annual New York Oncology Forum
The CAHON annual New York Oncology Forum (NYOF) is a one and a half day educational program that includes presentations on new developments and updates from the latest ASH, ASCO and SITC meetings including novel agents for Hematology and Oncology. 2025 will mark the 12th anniversary for this annual event which draws more than 100 clinicians, researchers, medical students, clinical fellows as well as laboratory and health care related scientists working in the hematology and oncology.
Program Agenda | Travel Awards | Meeting Organizers | Sponsors & Exhibitors | Sponsorship Opportunities
Date
Saturday, October 4, 2025 - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday, October 5, 2025 - 7:30 am - 1:00 pm
Sheraton La Guardia East
13520 39th Avenue
Flushing, NY, 11354
Program Agenda
Saturday, October 4, 2025
7:30 - 9:00 am On-site Registration, Exhibitors Visitation
8:00 – 9:00 am Breakfast Promotional Talk - Sponsored by Eli Lilly
Peer insights to help identify and manage candidates for treatment with a CDK4/6 inhibitor. © Lilly USA, LLC 2025.
All rights reserved.
Speaker: Fengting Yan, MD, PhD - Swedish Cancer Institute
Moderator: Faye Yin, MD, FACP - Florida Cancer Specialists
9:00 – 10:20 am Plenary Session I – Part I
Session Chairs: Liang Deng, MD, PhD - CAHON President, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD - CAHON Board Chair, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
9:00 – 9:05 am Welcome Remarks
Delong Liu, MD, PhD - New York Medical College
9:05 – 9:15 am Introduction of Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD - CAHON Board Chair, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
9:15 – 9:44 am Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture
Robert S. Negrin, MD – Stanford
9:45 -10:15 am Current and Future Therapies for Myeloma
Speaker: Saad Z. Usmani, MD, MBA - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Moderator: Zihai Li, MD, PhD - The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
10:15 – 10:35 am Break and Visit Exhibitors
10:35 am – 12:00 pm Plenary Session I – Part II
Session Chair: Lei Zheng, MD, PhD - Mays Cancer Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center
10:35 – 11:05 am New Agents and Regimens for Lung Cancer
Speaker: Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD - Yale School of Medicine
Moderator: Meng Xu Welliver, MD, PhD - Mayo Clinic
11:05 – 11:35 pm Melanoma 2025 and beyond: Are Asians Left Out?
Speaker: Michael K. Wong, MD, PhD, FRCPC - Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Moderator: J. Christine Ye, MD, MS - MD Anderson Cancer Center
11:35 – 12:05pm Current and Future Therapies for MPN
Speaker: John Mascarenhas, MD - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Moderator: Hongtao Liu, MD, PhD - University of Wisconsin at Madison
12:05 – 1:00 pm Lunch Promotional Talk - Sponsored by Exelixis
An Exelixis Product for the Clinical Management of Neuroendocrine Tumors
Speaker: Lingling Du, MD - Ochsner Benson Cancer Center
Moderator: Mary M. Li, MD, PhD - Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute
1:00 – 1:20 pm Break and Visit Exhibitors
1:20 – 2:50 pm Plenary Session II
Session Chair: Yi Feng, MD, PhD - Tennessee Cancer Specialists
1:20 – 1:50 pm Advances of Targeting KRAS in Colorectal and Pancreatic Cancer
Speaker: Weijing Sun, MD, FACP - University of Kansas Medical Center
Moderator: David Z. Chang, MD, PhD, FACP - Virginia Oncology Associates
1:50 – 2:20 pm Current and Future Therapy for Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Speaker: Minggui Pan, MD, PhD - Stanford University
Moderator: Aiwu Ruth He, MD, PhD - Columbia University
2:20 – 2:50 pm Updates on the Changing Landscape in Metastatic Kidney and Bladder Cancers
Speaker: Tian Zhang, MD, MHS - UT Southwestern Medical Center
Moderator: Chong-Xian Pan, MD, PhD - Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
2:50 – 3:05 pm Break and Visit Exhibitors
3:05 - 5:00 pm Plenary Session III
Session Chair: RuiRong Yuan, MD, PhD – VA Medical Center
3:05 - 4:20pm Case Presentations - Clinical Hematology/Oncology Session
Session Chairs: Shuang Fu, MD, PhD - Jackson Hematology Oncology
Bo Zhao, MD – Virginia Oncology Associates
Case #1 Presenter: Sunny S. Cai, MD - University of Kansas Medical Center
Jane Li – The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Case #1 Moderator: Zhengrui Xiao, MD - Montefiore Medical Center
Case #1 Panel: Fangyuan Chen, MD - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Gang Chen, MD, PhD - Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Tony W. Cheung, MD - CHS Oncology Long Island
Jie Chi, MD - Karmanos Cancer Institute/Wayne State University
Lijun Dai, MD, PhD - UPMC
Simo Du, MD, MHS - Jacobi Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Qiwei Bill Gai, MD, PhD - Kahlert Regional Cancer Center
Fei Gu, MD, PhD - New Mexico Cancer Care Associates
Suhu Liu, MD - Stony Brook University Hospital
Xiang Sean Wang, MD, MPH - Duke Cancer Institute
Xiaowen Wang, MD, PhD - Optum Washington
Kun Xiao, MD - Advocate Healthcare
Lili Zhang, MD - Hackensack University Medical Center
Xinhua Zhu, MD PhD - Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra
Case #2 Presenters: Nancy Lin, MD - NYU Langone Long Island Hospital
Jiahe Zhao, MD - Flushing Hospital Medical Center
Case #2 Moderator: Iris Zhi, MD PhD - NYU Langone,Perlmutter Cancer Center
Case #2 Panel: Ting Bao, MD, MS, FSIO - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Xia Bi, MD - Thomas Jefferson University
Yan Feng, MD - Cone Health Cancer Center
Jin He, MD PhD - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Zili He, MD - Advanced Hematology Oncology PLLC
Xuan Huang, MD, PhD - OhioHealth
Jingquan Jia, MD, PhD - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chengyue Jin, MD - Mount Sinai
Chaoyang Li, MD - OhioHealth
Qing Li, MD, PhD - Case Western Reserve University
Wenyuan Li, MD, MPH - Montefiore Medical Center Wakefield Campus
William Li, MD - Queens Hospital Center
Hongmei Liang, MD, PhD - UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Kit Y. Lu, MD - UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Weiquan Lu, MD - Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Ryan Moy, MD, PhD - Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Qian Qin, MD - UT Southwestern
Mei Tang, MD, PhD - Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Yiqing Xu, MD, PhD - Maimonides Medical Center
Bin Yan, MD, PhD - Vandalia Health Mon Health Cancer Center
Fengting Yan, MD, PhD – Swedish Cancer Institute
4:30 - 4:40 pm CAHON Updates
Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD - CAHON Board Chair, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Liang Deng, MD, PhD - CAHON President, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
4:40 – 5:00 pm CAHON 2024-2026 Executive Team Updates
Moderator: Cynthia Ma, MD, PhD - Washington University
5:00 pm Conclude
6:00 – 11:00 pm Members Only 20th Anniversary Celebration in the Phoenix Ballroom at The Sheraton
Sunday, October 5, 2025
7:30 - 8:30 am On-site Registration, Exhibitors Visitation
7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast Promotional Talk – Sponsored by Agios
Updates in Thalassemia
Speaker: Norland Ng, MD - Rendr
Moderator: Zhengrui Xiao, MD - Montefiore Medical Center
8:30 am – 12:00pm Plenary Session IV
8:30 -9:15am Case Presentations - Clinical Hematology/Oncology Session
Case #3 Presenter: Can Cui, MD, PhD - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Lay She Ng - Indiana University School of Medicine Southwest Indiana
Case #3 Moderator: Hongtao Liu, MD, PhD - University of Wisconsin at Madison
Case #3 Panel: Lan Mo, MD, PhD - Maimonides Cancer Center
Xinhe Shan, MD – Montefiore
Xiao Su, MD, PhD - Albany Medical Center/Saratoga Hospital
Gary G. Tian, MD, PhD, FACP - West Cancer Center
Haiyun Wang, MD - Cancer Care Associate of York
Katherine C. Wang, MD, PhD - Texas Oncology
Yuqing Wang, MD, PhD - Montefiore Medical Center
Jiazhang Xing, MD - Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
Guang Yang, MD, PhD - University of Pennsylvania
Pinguang Yang, MD - Tufts Medical Center
Chenyang Zhan, MD, PhD - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jingyao Zhang, MD - Danbury Hospital
Wenqing Zhang, MD PhD - Florida Cancer Specialists
Qing Zhao, MD - Banner MD Anderson
9:15 – 9:45 am Travel Grant Awardee & JIA Introduction
Presented by the CAHON 2024-2026 Academic Committee
Wanqing Iris Zhi, MD PhD - NYU Langone, Perlmutter Cancer Center
Minggui Pan, MD, PhD - Stanford University
9:45 – 10:00 am Break and Visit Exhibitors
10:00 – 11:00 am CAR, BITE, ADC and the Power of Synthetic Immuno-oncology
Moderator: Sen Zhuang, MD, PhD - Johnson & Johnson
Zihai Li, MD, PhD - The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Presenters & Topics: Sen Zhuang, MD, PhD - CAR-T and Bi-specific T Cell Engager: What Is Next?
Zihai Li, MD, PhD - The World of CAR-T and T Cell Engagers According to GARP
Steve Chin, MD - All You Want to Know about ADC
Discussion Panel: Steve Chin, MD- MediLink Therapeutics
Chaohong Fan, MD, PhD - CAHON
Kai He, MD, PhD - The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Vicky Lee, MD, PhD - Shanghai Jiahui Cancer Center
Meixiao Long, MD, PhD - The Ohio State University
Jia Ruan, MD, PhD - Weill Cornell Medical College
Zhen Zhang, PharmD – ADC Therapeutics
Pan Zheng, MD, PhD – OncoC4, Inc.
11:00am – 12:00pm Bridging Clinical Trial and Research Collaboration
Moderators: Ke Liu, MD, PhD - Marengo Therapeutics
Wenru Song, MD, PhD – Kira Pharma
Discussion Panel: Yong Ben, MD - BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics
Betty Chan, PharmD, BCOP - Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Siwen Hu-Lieskovan, MD, MHS – University of Utah Health
Yuxia Jia, MD PhD - CAHON
Charles Changchuan Jiang, MD, MPH - UT Southwestern Medical Center
Jane Liu, MD- Illinois CancerCare
Shirley Liu, MD, PhD - GV20 Therapeutics
Paul Liu, MD PhD - NIH
Andrew Z. Wang, MD - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Jingsong Zhang, MD, PhD - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Jiping Wang, MD, PhD – Harvard University
Shenhong Wu, MD, PhD -Stony Brook Medical Center
Yue Zhang, MD, MPH - Virginia Oncology Associates
Xiaolin Zhu, MD, PhD – UCSF
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch Promotional Talk - Sponsored by Novartis
Advancing Treatment in mCRPC: What Medical Oncologists Should Know About PLUVICTO, the First and Only PSMA-
Targeted Therapy After One ARPI
Speaker: Shawn H. Zimberg, MD, MBA - Advanced Radiation Centers of New York
Moderator: Richard Xu, MD, PhD - Queens-Long Island Oncology & Hematology
1:00 pm Closing Remarks
Yiwu Huang, MD, PhD - Maimonides Medical Center
Organizing Committee
Delong Liu, MD, PhD – NYOF Chair, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Hematology & Oncology, New York Medical College
Yiwu Huang, MD, PhD – NYOF Co-chair, Maimonides Medical Center
Liang Deng, MD, PhD – CAHON President, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
David Chang, MD, PhD – CAHON Founder and Past Board Member, Virginia Oncology Associates
Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD – CAHON Board Chair, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Wenru Song, MD, PhD – CAHON Founder and Past Board Member, Kira Pharmaceuticals
Ruirong Yuan, MD, PhD – CAHON Immediate Past Board Chair and Treasurer, VA Medical Center
Bo Zhao, MD – CAHON Immediate Past President, Virginia Oncology Associates
Lei Zheng, MD, PhD – CAHON Board Chair Elect, Executive Director Mays Cancer Center University of Texas Health San Antonio, MD Anderson Cancer Center
NYOF Young Investigator Travel Awards
To foster growth and achievement amongst CAHON's early career or physician-in-training members, CAHON will award up to 10 travel awards for current fellows or residents invested in the CAHON community. If you are interested in attending this exciting event and meeting with CAHON members in New York, please consider applying for this travel award.
Eligibility Criteria
- Current CAHON member - Available to physicians-in-training, including residency or fellowship training (Associate Membership Category, waived dues) or, physicians within 3 years of fellowship training at the level of instructor or assistant professor (Regular Membership Category, dues $100 USD).
Membership applications available at https://www.cahon.org/membership
- Availability to attending CAHON's New York Oncology Forum (October 4-5, 2025).
Application Instructions
The application window closed on September 5.
Applications should include:
- Application Form
- CV, including education and current training level or position
- Short bio (3 sentences long)
Junior Investigator Awards
CAHON is pleased to announce that we will also be offering Junior Investigator Awards (JIAs) this year. The Junior Investigator Award recognizes the achievements of outstanding Asian/Asian American high school and college student leaders. Through this award, CAHON wishes to encourage young students to participate in scientific research.
Recipients of the JIA will be honored during CAHON’s New York Oncology Forum on October 5, 2025. Awardees will receive reimbursement for travel and an official Certificate of Award.
Eligibility Criteria
- Outstanding high school or college student from the Asian community in the United States.
- Non-Asian individual in the United States with a keen interest in Asian culture.
- Demonstrated interests in biomedical career.
- Availability to attend CAHON’s Award Ceremony during the New York Oncology Forum on the morning of Sunday, October 5th.
Application Instructions
The application window closes on September 5.
Applications should include:
- JIA Application Form completed by the student
- Academic transcript from last semester
- One-page personal statement describing career and educational goals
- One letter of recommendation from school counselor, teacher, or research mentor
Sponsors & Exhibitors
2025 Corporate Partners
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2025 Oncology Supporter
Annual Exhibitors
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Exhibitors
| Abbvie | Deciphera | Nuvation |
| Agios | Eli Lilly | OncoHost |
| Alexion | Esai | PharmaEssentia |
| Astellas | Exelixis | Pfizer |
| AstraZeneca | Genentech | Regeneron |
| AVEO | Genmab | Rigel |
| Azurity | Guardant | Sanofi |
| BeOne | Ipsen | Servier |
| BMS | Johnson & Johnson | Stemline |
| Boehringer Ingerheim | Merck | Syndax |
| Coherus | Natera | Takeda |
| Daiichi | Novartis |
Sponsorship Opportunities
Becoming a sponsor is a unique opportunity to connect with the most influential group of Chinese hematologists and oncologists. The content of this event is designed to attract medical professionals from every career level and to share the latest scientific findings, methods, technologies to facilitate their practice. Exhibits are likely to sell out quickly this year! Please contact Annie McSherry to reserve a spot amcsherry@cahon.org