AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Brain Cancer

Held every 3 years, the AACR Special Conference on Brain Cancer brings together a multidisciplinary community of researchers and clinicians to address one of the most lethal and biologically complex forms of cancer. The 2026 meeting, taking place March 23–25 in Philadelphia, will continue this tradition by highlighting advances in both adult and pediatric brain tumors, from glioblastoma and medulloblastoma to rarer CNS subtypes. The program will spotlight the neuroscience of gliomas, advances in neuro-immuno-oncology, cellular therapies for nervous system tumors, brain borders and CNS trafficking, next-generation diagnostics and biomarkers, updates in brain metastases and leptomeningeal disease, strategies to solve tumor heterogeneity using spatial and 3D genomics, and the latest in clinical trials.