Moving moment at the end of the #AACR25 opening plenary session. Audience members stood and held signs that state “Cancer Research Saves Lives” to stand together as a cancer research community against the recent funding cuts to biomedical research.

Former NIH director Monica Bertagnolli (a cancer survivor) tells the crowd at AACR25 to “Fight for your science. Fight for what you do for the American people" during these unprecedented times. Kimryn Rathmell, former NCI Director, says that we need to tell the stories of scientists to make change.