AACR postpones April meeting over COVID-19 concerns

The American Association for Cancer Research has postponed its April meeting, one of the largest medical meetings so far to be canceled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

For AACR, meetings and workshops represent about one quarter of the revenue, but the annual meeting is a flagship event, and has grown from an important research conference to a major item on biotech’s oncology calendar, arguably matching ASCO (see “Hidden Consequences of COVID-19”)...