SITC-Bristol Myers Squibb Postdoctoral Cancer Immunotherapy Translational Fellowship
Award Amount: $200,000 (two-year)
Recipient: Simone Minnie, PhD
Institution: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Project Title: “Harnessing Treg fragility to improve anti-myeloma immune responses”
SITC-Amgen Cancer Immunotherapy in Hematologic Malignancies Fellowship
Award Amount: $100,000 (one-year)
Recipient: John Ligon, MD
Institution: University of Florida
Project Title: “Leveraging CD70 CXCR2-modified CAR T-cells for treating AML”
SITC-AstraZeneca Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer Clinical Fellowship
Award Amount: $100,000 (one-year)
Recipient: Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital
Project Title: “Dissecting the tumor immunity multicellular network”
SITC-Merck Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship
Award Amount: $100,000 (one-year)
Awardee: Hitomi Hosoya, MD, PhD
Institution: Stanford University
Project Title: “Cell-free DNA-based Platform to Determine Treatment Response and Resistant Mechanisms to CAR T-cell Therapy in Multiple Myeloma"
SITC-Genentech Women in Cancer Immunotherapy Fellowship
Award Amount: $50,000 (one-year)
Recipient: Shu-chin Lai, PhD
Institution: Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
Project Title: “Augmenting T cell immunity to facilitate metastatic breast cancer treatment”
SITC-Nektar Therapeutics Equity and Inclusion in Cancer Immunotherapy Fellowship
Award Amount: $50,000 (one-year)
Recipient: Mara De Martino, PhD
Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
Project Title: “Targeting FASN to sensitize irradiated glioblastoma to immunotherapy”
SITC-Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals Adverse Events in Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship
Award Amount: $40,000 (one-year)
Recipient: Steven Blum, MD
Institution: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital
Project Title: “Distinguishing Immune-Related Adverse Events (irAEs) from Anti-Tumor Immunity”
SITC-Natera ctDNA in Immunotherapy Response Monitoring Fellowship and Technology Award
Award: $40,000 and access to Natera’s Signatera™ testing technology
Recipient:Mariya Rozenblit, MD
Institution:Yale University
Project Title: “
The tumor microenvironment of triple negative breast cancers with detectable circulating tumor DNA after pembrolizumab treatment”
SITC-NanoString Technologies Single Cell Biology Award
Award: Access to NanoString Technologies’ CosMx™ Spatial Molecular Imager (SMI)
Recipient: Elshad Hasanov, MD, PhD
Institution: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Project Title: “CosMxing renal cell carcinoma brain metastases to decipher immune checkpoint inhibitor resistance mechanisms at single-cell and spatial context”
2021 NCI Immunotherapy Fellowship
Award: This one-year program allows the fellow to have exposure to multiple clinical immunotherapeutic approaches and also to key opinion leaders in the field of clinical immunotherapy. Co-Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and SITC, made possible in part by an educational grant from EMD Serono.
Awardee: Vincent Poon, MD
Institution: BC Cancer