With January’s Omicron wave behind us, giant research organizations have again decided to hold their annual conferences in person. I started writing this dispatch from the bowels of the immense Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in downtown New Orleans in mid-April. I was there, with more than 14,000 attendees involved in the enterprise of cancer science, to attend the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. The AACR and similarly sized groups have held their massive meetings virtually for the past two years as the pandemic engulfed the world, shuttering labs and scuttling events around the globe.
This year, the AACR jumped back into the fray and invited its sizeable community into a common space to share, collaborate, and network. Over the years, I’ve been to several AACR conferences and meetings of other large, professional organizations to cover the proceedings, speak with researchers, and keep tabs on the ...
