Abstract Travel Awards

Created in 2007, the Abstract Travel Award highlights promising young investigators who submitted high-scoring abstracts to the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Annual Meeting, based on the quality of their research and potential to advance the field. In 2017, 32 young investigators will receive travel awards in the abstract travel and presidential travel categories.

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Daniel Abate-Daga, PhD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Angela Boroughs
Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University

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Zinal Chheda, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

Daniel Davila-Gonzalez
Houston Methodist

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Dana Emerson
Oregon Health & Science University

Dan A. Erkes, PhD
Thomas Jefferson University

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Jennifer Guerriero, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Cara Haymaker, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Tyler Hulett
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute

Steve Seung-Young Lee, PhD
University of Chicago

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Thomas Marron, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Vyara Matson, PhD
University of Chicago

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Marit Melssen
University of Virginia

Maria Ormhoj, MSc
University of Southern Denmark
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School

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Abigail Overacre-Delgoffe
University of Pittsburgh

Mellissa Nixon, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Kelly Paulson, MD, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Weiyi Peng, MD, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Dayana Rivadeneira, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Irene Scarfò, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

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Elizabeth Sturgill, PhD
Providence Portland Medical Center

Jessica Thaxton, PhD, MSCR
Medical University of South Carolina

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Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University

Geeta Upadhyay, PhD
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Georgetown University Medical Center

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Claire Vanpouille-Box, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

McLane Watson
University of Pittsburgh

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Spencer Wei, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Erik Wennerberg, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine