2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Investigative Pathology

The 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) will be held April 20-23 at Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, MD. The Annual Meeting of the ASIP provides a unique forum for presentation and sharing of cutting-edge research in experimental pathology. The target audience and subject matter for the meeting are diverse, but united by a common focus on mechanisms of disease. Reflecting the interests of the ASIP membership, the four-day scientific program for the 2024 Annual Meeting is comprised of major symposia, award lectures, workshops, guest society symposia, and special sessions covering disease pathogenesis, biomarker development, prevention, diagnosis, and therapeutics, advanced technologies, organ systems, and systems biology. This program contains strong components in cancer pathobiology. Major cancerrelated sessions will focus on: (i) Cancer and Obesity; (ii) Spatial Transcriptomics in Human Specimens; (iii) Cutting Edge Technologies for the Future of Breast Cancer Prevention, Detection, and Screening; (iv) Metabolism and Cell-cell Crosstalk in Chronic Liver Disease and Liver Cancer; and (v) Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Research. In addition, the ASIP Outstanding Investigator Award Lecture will have a specific cancerfocus: Oxygen Sensing Signaling in Cancer: The Past, Present, and Future. Additional opportunities for presentation of cancer-focused research will include abstract-driven minisymposia and poster discussion sessions, which will intentionally feature young investigators and trainee scientists. The program further provides a number of sessions focused on education and career development. These sessions are designed for trainees and young investigators, but are open to all attendees. Education and career development topics for 2024 include: (a) Recognizing Racism in Graduate/Medical Curriculum, (b) Building a Positive and Productive Research Laboratory Culture, and (c) Practical Applications in Artificial Intelligence. In addition, the Women in Pathology will hold a special session on Powerful Questions for Connecting, Collaborating, and Building Confidence. The ASIP regards promotion of the career development of trainee and young investigators as an extremely important aspect of the Annual Meeting. Accordingly, the meeting provides not only special events designed for their needs, but also sessions that highlight/showcase their work. Similarly, the Program Committee works hard to ensure diversity among the participants with respect to gender, ethnic/racial group, stage of career, and institutional affiliation. For 2024, among invited speakers: 42% are women, 55% are Assistant/Associate Professors (or equivalent), and 90% of major sessions include speakers that are women or underrepresented. The sole specific aim of this application is to promote the participation of trainees and young investigators in the 2024 Annual Meeting through provision of a Scholar Award program targeted to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, clinical residents/fellows, and junior faculty members.