The seventh kidney cancer research summit: progress in accelerating cures.

The seventh Kidney Cancer Research Summit was held as a hybrid virtual/in-person event in Boston, MA during July 17-18, 2025. This conference, which aims to help guide the design of kidney cancer clinical trials and research, centers around projects that showcase the most impactful basic, translational, and clinical data evolving in renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and brings together clinical oncologists, physician scientists, translational researchers, and patient advocates. The abstract presentations were published as a supplement in The Oncologist (https://academic.oup.com/oncolo/issue/30/Supplement_2). This perspective will provide the layout of the current RCC research landscape as discussed and debated among the stakeholders at the conference as well as more recent updates.