2026 Summer Symposium & Reception

Program Agenda | Meeting Organizers | Young Investigator Awards | Sponsors & Exhibitors

 

Date & Venue

Saturday, May 30, 2026
5:30 – 10:00 pm CDT

Metropolitan in Willis Tower
233 South Wacker Drive, 66^th Floor
Chicago, IL, 60606

 

 

Program Agenda

5:30 - 7:00 pm     Doors and Registration Open, Social Gathering, Visit Exhibit Booths

7:00 – 7:30 pm    CAHON Presentations

                             Opening Remarks and Board of Directors Update
                             Jing- Zhou Hou, MD, PhD - CAHON Board Chair, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

                              CAHON Presidential Address and CAHON Updates
                              Liang Deng, MD, PhD - CAHON President, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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

7:30 – 8:30 pm    Scientific Presentations 

8:30 - 8:50 pm      Young Investigator Awards Ceremony
                               CAHON 2024-2026 Academic Committee

8:50 – 9:10 pm     Closing Remarks
                              Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD, Board Chair & Liang Deng, MD, PhD, President               

                              Introduce the next term CAHON Leaders (June 01, 2026-June 01, 2028)
                              Lei Zheng, MD, PhD, Board Chair Elect & Cynthia Ma, MD, PhD, President Elect                

9:10 – 10:00 pm   Social Gathering

 

Meeting Organizers

Liang Deng, MD, PhD – CAHON President, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jing-Zhou Hou, MD, PhD – CAHON Board Chair, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Cynthia Ma, MD, PhD – CAHON President Elect, Washington University
Lei Zheng, MD, PhD - CAHON Board Chair Elect, Mays Cancer Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center

 

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 Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 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 ASCO Annual Meeting.
3. Availability to attend CAHON’s Young Investigator Award Ceremony during the 2025 Summer Symposium

Applications should include:

• YIA Application Form
• Accepted 2025 ASCO abstract including the abstract category (i.e., clinical, translational, etc.)
• 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 info@cahon.org by Friday, May 1, 2026

 

Sponsors & Exhibitors

2025 Corporate Partners

 

2025 Annual Oncology Supporters

 

Please note that exhibits are limited to ten slots at the Symposiums and will be offered first to CAHON annual supporters. To inquire if any slots are available outside of annual support, please contact Annie McSherry at amcsherry@cahon.org.