​​Agenda
​1:30 – 2:00 pm, Registration
2:00 – 2:10 Welcome messages by Dr. Gen-Sheng Feng (ACACR President, UCSD) and Dr. Shi-Yong Sun  (USCACA President,
                    Emory University)
2:10 – 3:05 ACACR Award Session, chaired by Dr. Gen-Sheng Feng, UCSD
2:15 – 2:20 Announcement of 2024 Winners of Tony Hunter Award in Cancer Research by Award Committee Chair, Dr. Shi-
                     Yuan Cheng, Northwestern University
2:20 – 2:25 Presentation of the Inaugural Award to Senior Investigator and Junior Investigator by Dr. Tony Hunter
2:25 – 2:45 Dr. Lieping Chen, Yale University, Tony Hunter Award Lecture (Senior Investigator Awardee), introduced by Dr.
                    Wei Xu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
                     Title: “Cancer immunotherapy: what have we learnt and what is next?”
2:45 – 3:05 Dr. Peiwen Chen, Northwest University, Tony Hunter Award Lecture (Junior Investigator Awardee), introduced
                     by Dr. Shi-Yuan Cheng, Northwestern University
                     Title: “Targeting tumor-macrophage/microglia symbiosis in glioblastoma”
3:05 – 3:25 USCACA Award Session, Dr. Shi-Yong Sun, Emory University. USCACA Outstanding Young Chinese Scholar
                   Awards Announcement and Presentations (Dr. Xuefeng Liu, The Ohio State University)
3:25 – 3:35 Business meeting of the two societies
                    Update on ACACR Publication/Newsletters: Dr. Zhenghe Wang, Case Western Reserve University
3:35 – 3:55 Coffee break (Group Photo)
3:55 – 4:45 Keynote address, Dr. Tony Hunter, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences, introduced by Dr. Jing Yang, UCSD
                    Title: “Tyrosine Phosphorylation and Cancer”
4:45 – 5:10 Sponsors’ presentations, chaired by ACACR General Secretary, Dr. Erxi Wu, Baylor College of Medicine
                  4:45 – 4:50 Chanshow Biotechnology Inc, San Diego, CA
                  4:50 – 4:55 TargetMol, Wellesley Hills, MA
                   4:55 – 5:00 RayBiotech, Peachtree Corners, GA
                   5:00 – 5:05 MedChemExpress (MCE), Monmouth Junction, NJ
​                   5:05 – 5:10 Shanghai Model Organisms, Sugar Land, TX
5:10 – 5:15 Concluding remarks, Dr. Boyi Gan, ACACR President-elect, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
5:15 – 7:00 Networking/Buffet Dinner