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The Cancer Prevention Research Conference

Our next event will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from 3-5 June 2026, in partnership with the American Cancer Society.

Register your interest for our next event

Through this conference, we are creating a multidisciplinary cancer prevention research community that sparks new collaborations to enable advances in future cancer prevention approaches. Attendees access insights across the research continuum, from discovery biology through to population and implementation sciences.

This is a must-attend event for researchers from discovery biology, translational and behavioural science, population and implementation research, including established and early-career researchers from across the world.

Register your interest

Interested in sponsoring the 2026 edition of our Cancer Prevention Research Conference? Contact us for a confidential discussion.

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Explore our prior events

London, UK, 25–27 June 2025

Our 2025 event was co-chaired by Sarah Blagden (University of Oxford), Marc Gunter (Imperial College London), and Elizabeth Jaffee (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine).

View the 2025 programme(PDF, 126 KB)

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Sponsored by Moderna

At Moderna, their mission is to deliver the greatest possible impact to people through mRNA medicines. Since 2010 they have been pioneering the potential of mRNA to develop therapeutics and vaccines for infectious disease, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular disease and autoimmune diseases.

Boston, USA, 25-27 June 2024

Our 2024 event was co-chaired by John Burn (Newcastle University), Tim Rebbeck (Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center) and Thea Tlsty (University of California, San Francisco).

View the 2024 programme(PDF, 186 KB)

Guiding principles for our research events and conferences

Our research events are designed to showcase cutting-edge science, bring together an international scientific community and facilitate collaborations.

We've prioritised embedding equality, diversity and inclusion, health and safety, patient and public involvement and environmental sustainability across all our research activities.

Read our guiding principles

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