Early Career Scientist Awards

Alessandra Araujo, PhD
University of Texas at Austin

M. Angela Aznar Gomez, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Mehdi Chaib, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Youngseok Cho, Pharm D, PhD
University of Michigan

Anna Cole, BA
Emory University

Mara De Martino, PhD 
Weill Cornell Medicine

Amanda Finck, BS
University of Pennsylvania

Athena Golfinos-Owens, BS 
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Adam Grippin, MD, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Martin LaFleur, PhD
Harvard Medical School

Spencer Lea
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth GSBS

Seunghyun Lee, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine

Juyeun Lee, PhD
Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institue

Maria Cecilia Lira, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Aram Lyu, PhD
University of California San Francisco

Sean McCutcheon, PhD 
Duke University

Katie McKenna, PhD 
Baylor College of Medicine

Golnaz Morad, DDS, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Adam Nelson, PhD 
Brigham and Woman's Hospital; Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Juan Osorio, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Matthew Park, PhD  
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Ayana Ayana, PhD  
Emory University

Miriam Saffern 
Mount Sinai

Lucia Sereni, PhD
Boston Children's Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Manvi Sharma, PhD  
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dimitrios Sidiropoulos, PhD
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University

Portia Smith
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Aastha Sobti, PhD  
University of Pittsburgh

Yapeng Su, PhD  
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Katherine Ventre, PhD  
NYU Langone Health

Chao Wang, PhD  
The Scripps Research Institute

Max Wang, PhD  
Northwestern University

Xinan Wang, PhD, MS
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Bogang Wu, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School

Han Zang, PhD   
University of California San Francisco 

Santiago Acero-Bedoya, MS 
University of Chicago

Joao Alessi, MD  
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Jonathan Anker, MD, PhD
Mount Sinai Hospital

Kerryan Ashley, MS
Yale University

Zhiliang Bai, PhD
Yale University

Mohamed-Reda Benmebarek, PhD 
National Cancer Institute

Matthew Brown, MS 
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Kelly Burke, MD, PhD 
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

Daniela Cerezo-Wallis, PhD 
Yale University

Mara De Martino, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Alexander Doan 
Stanford University School of Medicine

Melanie Herpels 
Imperial College London and the Institute of Cancer Research

Yinghui Jane Huang, BS 
University of Pennsylvania

Ashwani Kesarwani, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis

John Ligon, MD 
University of Florida

Guolan Lu, PhD 
Stanford University

Leyuan Ma, PhD 
University of Pennsylvania

James Maiarana, MD 
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Lisa Mielke, PhD 
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute and La Trobe University

Tara Muijlwijk, MSc 
Cancer Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC

Takahide Nejo, MD, PhD  
University of California, San Francisco

Adam Nelson, PhD  
Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Anthony T. Nguyen, MD, PhD  
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Juan Osorio, MD  
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Abby Overacre, PhD  
University of Pittsburgh

Steph Pang, MD, CM  
McGill University

James L. Reading, PhD  
UCL Cancer Institute

Melissa Reeves, PhD  
University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute

Malte Roerden, MD, PhD  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert Saddawi-Konefka, MD, PhD  
UC San Diego, Gleiberman Head and Neck Cancer Center

Laura Sanz Ortega, PhD  
Karolinska Institutet

David Schoenfeld, MD, PhD  
Yale University

Sean-Luc Shanahan, BA   
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kellie Spahr, BS   
University of Pittsburgh

Elen Torres, PhD   
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

Michelle Tran   
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Yingxi Xu, PhD   
University of Lausanne

Ziena Abdulrahman, MD, MS
Leiden University Medical Center, Oncode Institute

Vaishali Aggarwal, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Lawrence Andrews, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Kelsey Bennion
Emory University

Lucas Blanchard, MS
University of Toulouse

Erica Braverman, MD
University of Pittsburgh

Sofia Bruni, MS
Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental

Darwin Chang
Moffitt Cancer Center

Nam Woo Cho, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

Anna Cole
Emory University

Jashodeep Datta, MD
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Kristin DePeaux, MS
University of Pittsburgh

Giulia Escobar, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Inaki Etxeberria, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Qiang Feng, PhD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Andrew Frisch
University of Pittsburgh

Peter (Sanghyun) Kim, PhD
National Cancer Institute

Louai Labanieh, PhD
Stanford University

Ian MacFawn, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Gauri Mirji, PhD
The Wistar Institute

Evelyn Nguyen, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Carlos Ontiveros
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Cristina Puig Saus, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles

Thomas Pulliam
University of Washington

Kishu Ranjan, PhD
Yale University

Biagio Ricciuti, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Insitute

Benjamin Ruf, MD
National Institutes of Health

Heeju Ryu, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Feng Shan, MS
University of Pittsburgh

Sonu Subudhi, MBBS, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Jens Tijtgat, MD
Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

Ugur Uslu, MD
University of Pennsylvania

Maria Zagorulya
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Margaret L. Axelrod
Vanderbilt University

Amira Barkal, MD, PhD
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Akash R. Boda, MS
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Kyle R. Cron
University of Chicago

Ellen Duong
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

Myrna G. Garcia
UT Health San Antonio

Shengqing Gu, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Harshita Gupta
UT Health San Antonio

Alexa R. Heaton, PhD
Morgridge Institute for Research and University of Wisconsin

Emily Higgs
University of Chicago

Brendan L. Horton, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Caroline S. Jansen
Emory University

Priyamvada Jayapraka, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Sabina Kaczanow, PhD
National Cancer Institute

Emily Z. Keung, MD, MA
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jessica Lake, MD, MPH
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Rebecca C. Larson
Jounce Therapeutics

Arthur J. Liu
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Teresa Manzo, PhD
IEO

Yuki Muroyama, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

Giacomo Oliveira, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Abigail E. Overacre-Delgoffe, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Athanasios Papadas
UC San Diego

Ronal M. Peralta
University of Pittsburgh

Nataliya Prokhnevska
Emory University

Shuyang S. Qin, MS
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Sruthi Ravindranathan, PhD, MS
Emory University

Robert Saddawi-Konefka, MD, PhD
UC San Diego School of Medicine

Nicole E. Scharping, PhD
University of California San Diego

John-William Sidhom, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Yupeng Wang
University of Pittsburgh

Natalie K. Wolf
University of California Berkeley

Maria Zagorulya
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jiajia Zhang, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University    

Hussein A. Abbas, MD, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Xue Bai, MD
Peking University Cancer Hospital and MGH

Todd Bartkowiak, PhD
Vanderbilt University

Isaac S. Chan, MD, PhD
John Hopkins University

Andrew Chow, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Diego de Miguel Perez, PhD
University of Maryland

Diana Campbell DeLucia, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Kristen DePeaux
University of Pittsburgh

Anushka Dongre, PhD
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Ellen Duong
Koch Institute

Elizabeth A. R. Garfinkle
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Erica T. Goddard, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Brendan L. Horton, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bryan Iorgulescu, MD, FCAP
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Peter Sanghyun Kim, PhD
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Dhiraj Kumar, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Roger Li, MD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

Kyle B. Lupo
Purdue University

Abigail E. Overacre-Delgoffe, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Kartik Sehgal, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Fyza Y. Shaikh, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Natasha D. Sheybani, PhD 
University of Virginia

Alvaro Teijeira
CIMA (Center for Applied Medical Research) University of Navarre

Megan Tennant
Medical University of South Carolina

Jonas Van Audenaerde, MSc
University of Antwerp

Paolo Dario Angelo Vignali
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Wang Chao, PhD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

McLane Watson
University of Pittsburgh

Adam Widman, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Michelle M. Williams, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Yi-Ru Yu, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Reham Ajina, MS
Georgetown University

Emily Chiu
University of Minnesota    

Sofia Bruni, MS
Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental – CONICET    

Anthony R. Cillo, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Luis F. Campesato, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

John S. Davies, PhD
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

Smita S. Chandran, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center    

Ellen Duong
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Xiufen Chen, PhD
University of Chicago    

Blake Flood
University of Chicago    

Caroline S. Jansen
Emory University    

Zoila A. Lopez Bujanda, MS
Columbia University

Md Abdul Wadud Khan, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Lauren E. Milling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology    

Giuseppe Lamberti, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute    

Bhalchandra Mirlekar, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Claire Lhuillier, PhD
Weill Cornell Medical College    

Abigail E. Overacre-Delgoffe, PhD
University of Pittsburgh    

Shamin Li, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center    

Shuyang S. Qin
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Shuyin Li, PhD
University of Chicago    

Jessica Roelands, MS
Sidra Medical Research Center    

Rosalyn W. Sayaman, PhD
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center  

McLane Watson
University of Pittsburgh

Nicole E. Scharping, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Richard C. Wu, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Chensu Wang, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nuo Xu, MS
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jiao Wang, PhD
Purdue University

Fan Zhang, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center    

Lawrence Andrews, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Christopher A. Chuckran
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Ellen Duong
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Colt Egelston, PhD
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope

Beth Helmink, MD, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer

Priyamvada Jayaprakash, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Daniel H. Johnson, MD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Anusha Kalbasi, MD
University of California, Los Angeles

Chang Liu, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Alak Manna, PhD
Mayo Clinic

Teresa Manzo, PhD
European Institute of Oncology, Milan

Ileana S. Mauldin, PhD
University of Virginia

Ravi Patel, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin

Sangeetha Reddy, MD, MSci
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Aaron M. Ring, MD, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine

Dayana B. Rivadeneira, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Jessica Roelands
Sidra Medical Research Center

Alexander I. Salter, BS
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Nicole E. Scharping, BS
University of Pittsburgh

Meenu Sharma, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Eugene Shenderov, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins Hospital

John-William Sidhom
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Kellie N. Smith, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Ashwin Somasundaram, MD
University of Pittsburgh

Davis Y. Torrejon, MD
UCLA Hematology-Oncology Department

Joshua R. Veatch, MD, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Jiao Wang, PhD
Purdue University

McLane Watson, BS
University Of Pittsburgh

Jiajia Zhang, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins University

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

Angela Boroughs
Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University

Zinal Chheda, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

Daniel Davila-Gonzalez
Houston Methodist

Dana Emerson
Oregon Health & Science University

Dan A. Erkes, PhD
Thomas Jefferson University

Jennifer Guerriero, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Cara Haymaker, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Tyler Hulett
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute

Steve Seung-Young Lee, PhD
University of Chicago

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

Vyara Matson, PhD
University of Chicago

Marit Melssen
University of Virginia

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

Abigail Overacre-Delgoffe
University of Pittsburgh

Mellissa Nixon, PhD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Kelly Paulson, MD, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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

Dayana Rivadeneira, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Irene Scarfò, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Elizabeth Sturgill, PhD
Providence Portland Medical Center

Jessica Thaxton, PhD, MSCR
Medical University of South Carolina

Evanthia Roussos Torres, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University

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

Claire Vanpouille-Box, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

McLane Watson
University of Pittsburgh

Spencer Wei, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Erik Wennerberg, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Ephraim A. Ansa-Addo, PhD, MSB
Medical University of South Carolina

Cristina Bergamaschi, PhD
National Cancer Institute at Frederick

Tullia C. Bruno, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Fanny Chapelin, MS
University of California San Diego

Natalie Collins, MD, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Cara Haymaker, PhD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Tyler Hulett
Providence Cancer Center

Michael Klichinsky, PharmD
Center for Cellular Immunotherapies University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Landi, MD
Center for Gene & Cell Therapy
Baylor College of Medicine

Thomas Mace, PhD
Ohio State University

Kathleen M. Mahoney, MD, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Adam W. Mailloux, PhD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

Melinda Mata, PhD
Center for Gene & Cell Therapy
Baylor College of Medicine

Alessandra Metelli
Medical University of South Carolina

Nicholas Minutolo
University of Pennsylvania

John Mullinax, MD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center

Sukhmani K. Padda, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine

Jonathan Schoenfeld, MD, MPH
Brigham and Women's Hospital Dana-Farber Cancer Center

Tala Shekarian
UCBL1 Centre Léon Bérard

John-William Sidhom
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Stefani Spranger, PhD
University of Chicago

Randy F. Sweis, MD
University of Chicago

Marie-Nicole Theodoraki, MD
University of Pittsburgh

Katy Tsai, MD
University of California San Francisco

Claire Vanpouille-Box, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Jessica Wenthe
Uppsala University

Jason B. Williams
University of Chicago

Midan Ai, PhD
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Challice Bonifant, MD, PhD
University of Michigan

Greg Delgoffe, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Christopher DeRenzo, MD
Baylor College of Medicine

Matthew Farren, PhD
James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University

Danny Khalil, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Gary Kohanbash, PhD
University of California San Francisco

Giedre Krenciute, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

Ileana Mauldin, PhD
University of Virginia

Zachary S. Morris, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Douglas Palmer, PhD
National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health - Surgery Branch

Anna Pasetto, PhD
National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health - Surgery Branch

Alexandre Reuben, PhD
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Gabrielle Romain, PhD
University of Houston

Manisha Singh, PhD
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Sanja Stevanović, PhD
National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health - Surgery Branch

Madhusudhanan Sukumar, PhD
National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health - Surgery Branch

Siri Tähtinen. MSc
Cancer Gene Therapy Group, Medicum, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki

Li Tang, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Richard Tavare, PhD
University of California Los Angeles

Rieneke van de Ven, PhD
VU University Medical Center, Cancer Center Amsterdam

Claire Vanpouille-Box, PhD
Weill Cornell Medical College

Kipp Weiskopf, MPhil
Stanford University School of Medicine

Erik Wennerberg, PhD
Weill Cornell Medical College

Jason B. Williams
University of Chicago

Katherine Woods, PhD
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute

Jason R. Baird, PhD
Providence Portland Medical Center

Tiara Byrd, B.S.
Baylor College of Medicine

Emily K. Curran, MD
University of Chicago

Julie Diamond, B.S.
NYU School of Medicine

Yared Hailemichael, PhD
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dewan Md Sakib Hossain, PhD
City of Hope

Gary Kohanbash, PhD
University of California-San Francisco

Sara Labiano, MSc
Center for Applied Medical Research

Jing Li
Department of Pharmacy School of Medicine Tsinghua University China

Douglas C. Palmer, PhD
National Cancer Institute

Michael Postow, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Emanuela Romano, MD, PhD
University Hospital of Lausanne

Ayelet Sivan
University of Colorado

Eric Tran, PhD
National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute

Nicholas Tschernia, B.S.
Pediatric Oncology Branch National Cancer Institute

Claire Vanpouille-Box, PhD
New York University School of Medicine

Helen K. Angell, PhD
INSERM

Christian S. Hinrichs, MD
National Cancer Institute, Surgery Branch

Sander Kelderman, MD
NKI-AVL

Karsten A. Pilones, MD, PhD
NYU School of Medicine

David Schaer, PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Anil Shanker, PhD
Meharry Medical College/Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center

Maria Libera Ascierto, PhD
National Institutes of Health

Michael Postow, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

David Rushworth
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Huimin Tao
University of Michigan

Seng-Ryong Woo, PhD
University of Chicago

Yan Yang
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jessica A. Chacon
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Drew Deniger
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Evripidis Lanitis
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine

Petra Prinz, PhD
Institute of Molecular Immunology

Emanuela Romano, MD
University of Lausanne

Seng-Ryong Woo, PhD
University of Chicago

Maria Libera Ascierto
National Institutes of Health, CC, DTM

Davide Bedognetti, MD
National Institutes of Health, CC, DTM

Arianna Calcinotto
San Raffaele Scientific Institute

Mitsugu Fujita, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Pawel Muranski, MD
National Cancer Institute – CCR

Julie Urban
University of Pittsburgh

Andrea Facciabene, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Weiqing Jing
Medical College of Wisconsin

Christy Ralph
Paterson Institute for Cancer Research

Maria Grazia Ruocco, PhD
New York University - School of Medicine, Skirball Institute

Jochen Schaefer, MD
University of Virginia

Ryan Sullivan, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center