SITC Fellowships

Submissions Opening in January 2020

SITC-Bristol Myers Squibb Postdoctoral Cancer Immunotherapy Translational Fellowship Award

This two-year ($200,000) cancer immunotherapy translational fellowship award aims to provide support for an individual who has a vested interest in furthering the research and translation of cancer immunotherapy.

SITC-Merck Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship Award

This one-year ($100,000) cancer immunotherapy clinical fellowship award aims to provide support for an individual who has an MD (or equivalent) or combined MD/PhD degree and a vested interest in furthering the research and translation of cancer immunotherapy.

SITC-NanoString Technologies Spatial Profiling Award

This is a new research award for spatial profiling, sponsored by NanoString. Applicants will be encouraged to submit their proposals for a cancer immunotherapy project that will leverage NanoString Technologies’ GeoMx™ Digital Spatial Profiler (DSP) to perform highly multiplexed spatial profiling of RNA and proteins. The most impactful proposal for cancer immunotherapy research will be selected.

SITC is pleased to announce the recipients of three 2019 Fellowship Awards, which support the next generation of cancer immunotherapy and tumor immunology experts through dedicated funding of novel research. The SITC Fellowship Awards program was established through the society’s Forward Fund, which has committed more than $2 million in Fellowship Award opportunities to deserving young investigators since 2014.

	SITC-Amgen Cancer Immunotherapy in Hematologic Malignancies Fellowship Award Awardee: May Daher, MD Institution: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Project Title: “CIS checkpoint deletion in cord blood derived iC9.CAR19.IL-15 NK cells to treat B-cell hematologic malignancies” Award Amount: $100,000 (one year)
	SITC-AstraZeneca Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer (Early Stage NSCLC) Clinical Fellowship Award Awardee: Chen Zhao, MD Institution: National Institutes of Health Project Title: “Investigating microbiota-immune interaction in patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer” Award Amount: $100,000 (one year)
	SITC's Holbrook Kohrt, MD, PhD Cancer Immunotherapy Translational Memorial Fellowship Award (sponsored by Genentech) Awardee: Yimin (Victor) Du, PhD Institution: The Salk Institute for Biological Studies Project Title: “Fine-Tuning Natural Killer Cells to Target T-Cell Resistant Tumors” Award Amount: $100,000 (one year)

This year’s SITC Named Fellowship Awards were made possible through the generosity of Amgen, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP and Genentech, Inc.

The award recipients will be honored during a ceremony at the society’s 34^th Annual Meeting on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019, at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md.

2019 NCI Immunotherapy Fellowship Recipient

Recipient: Lekha Mikkilineni, MD, National Cancer Institute

Co-sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and SITC and made possible in part by an educational grant from EMD Serono.

SITC-MRA Young Investigator in Immune-Related Adverse Events Award Recipient

Recipient: Shaheen Khan, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Project Title: Investigating Host Immune Factors in Mediating Immune-Related Adverse Events

Co-sponsored by the Melanoma Research Alliance and SITC

Interested in supporting a SITC Fellowship? Contact SITC Development at development@sitcancer.org or +1 414-271-2456.

Also, visit our Frequently Asked Questions page for more details about the SITC Fellowship Awards.