OncoDaily Party 2025: CHICAGO LIGHTS
Overview
Event Highlights
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Venue
River Roast
315 N. LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60654, United States
Event Series
Date / Time
May 30, 2025 · 8:00 PM – May 31, 2025 · 2:00 AM
Following the success of the ASCO 2024 and ESMO 2024 events, OncoDaily returned with even more energy in Chicago.
On May 30, 2025, the oncology community gathered for the Chicago Lights Edition of the OncoDaily Party—an unforgettable evening filled with celebration, meaningful connections, live music, and the unmistakable energy of OncoDaily.
The evening also featured the highly anticipated Yvonne Award Ceremony, honoring excellence and outstanding contributions across the field of oncology.
Guests came together to dance, network, reconnect with colleagues, and enjoy a memorable celebration of the global oncology community.
They Came for the Party. They Stayed for the Story.


OncoDaily Party 2025: CHICAGO LIGHTS - Hosting Committee
Co-Chairs
Yelena Janjigian – Chief of the Gastrointestinal Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Gevorg Tamamyan – Editor-in-Chief of OncoDaily; Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Yerevan State Medical University; CEO of the Immune Oncology Research Institute; President of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology Asia Continental Branch (SIOP Asia); President of the Pediatric Oncology East and Mediterranean (POEM) Group; President of P53 Inc.

OncoDaily Party 2025: CHICAGO LIGHTS - Hosting Committee
Co-Chairs
Yelena Janjigian – Chief of the Gastrointestinal Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Gevorg Tamamyan – Editor-in-Chief of OncoDaily; Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Yerevan State Medical University; CEO of the Immune Oncology Research Institute; President of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology Asia Continental Branch (SIOP Asia); President of the Pediatric Oncology East and Mediterranean (POEM) Group; President of P53 Inc.

Committee Members
Alberto Puccini – Medical Oncologist specializing in GI cancers at the IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy
Aline Chaves Andrade – Clinical Oncologist at Oncocentro BH-MG and Biocor Hospital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Amalya Sargsyan – Medical Oncologist, Yeolyan Oncology Center; Research Physician, Immune Oncology Research Institute; Vice President of Research and Intelligence, OncoDaily
Andrea Eidelman – Chief Executive Officer, Debbie’s Dream Foundation: Curing Stomach Cancer
Bahar Laderian – Director of the Neuroendocrine Tumors Program, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Benoit Rousseau – Assistant Attending Physician, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Assistant Lab Member, Luis Diaz Jr. Lab
Chandler Park – Oncologist at Norton Cancer Institute and Baptist Health Hardin; Clinical Professor at University of Louisville School of Medicine; President, Kentucky Society of Clinical Oncology
Claire Nolan – Manager, Global Events and Special Projects, Agenus
David Huitzil – Hematology and Oncology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
Enrique Soto Pérez de Celis – Associate Director for Global Oncology, University of Colorado Cancer Center; Editor-in-Chief of ecancermedicalscience; Researcher and Leader, Cancer Care in the Older Adult Clinic, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ)
Erika Ruiz García – Professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology; Chief of the Translational Medicine Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City
Filippo Pietrantonio – GI Medical Oncologist at Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
Imane El Dika – Medical Oncologist specializing in Gastrointestinal Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jenny Seligmann – Professor of Gastrointestinal and Translational Oncology, University of Leeds
Julien Taieb – Head of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Oncology, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Université de Paris
Martin Harutyunyan – Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Yerevan State Medical University
Nataliya Uboha – Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Medical Oncologist, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center
Paolo Tarantino – Medical Oncologist, European Institute of Oncology; Research Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Rachna Shroff – Chief of Hematology/Oncology and Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research, University of Arizona
Raghav Sundar – Associate Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology); Leader of the Gastroesophageal Cancer Program at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center
Samuel Klempner – Head of Gastric and Esophageal Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School
Sara Lonardi – Chief of the Oncology 3 Unit and Chief of Phase I Clinical Trial Unit, Veneto Institute of Oncology (IOV) – IRCCS
Shushan Hovsepyan – Editor-in-Chief of OncoDaily Medical Journal; Director of Innovation and Development, Immune Oncology Research Institute; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Pediatric Oncology, Yerevan State Medical University; Co-Chair of the SIOP GHN Research and Innovation Working Group; Senior Vice President of P53 Inc.
Thomas Powles – Director, Barts Cancer Centre, London; Professor of Genitourinary Oncology, Queen Mary University of London
Yan Leyfman – Clinical Researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Co-founder and Executive Director of MedNews Week
OncoDaily Staff
Elen Baloyan – Managing Editor of OncoDaily
Ellen Davtyan – Assistant Managing Editor at OncoDaily