Event: 100th AACR Annual Meeting

Last April, AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) held its 100th Annual Meeting in Denver. This association offers a wide educational program since 1907, when its first president Dr James Edwing said: “Modern cancer research fills a urgent needs without which progress would be handicapped”.

Even if a lot of progress and new knowledge have been accomplished in this field of medicine, cancer research still be a challenge for academy or industry scientists. Based on recent evidences, tailored therapies are now available (for instance therapy with small molecule inhibitors) and represent a good example of collaboration between academic scientists, clinicians and pharmaceutical industries. This therapies are one of the first important goal of translational research, which needs a synergy between basic biological laboratories, engineering, mathematics and physics to be productive. As a consequence, modern scientists must have an inter-disciplinary preparation and a really open mind in order to make possible this thigh collaboration.
AACR launched meetings and workshops, to help scientist to fill the gap and continuously offers fellowship. Qualified information can be also retrieved in blogs and scientific forums. In 2009, dear scientist, you must be creative (and critical, as usual) when you are looking for sources!