The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) is pleased to announce the recipients of six 2020 fellowships, to support the next generation of cancer immunotherapy and tumor immunology experts through dedicated funding of impactful research.
The fellowship recipients were honored at the society’s 35th Anniversary Annual Meeting.
The 2020 SITC Fellowships recipients are:
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SITC-Bristol Myers Squibb Postdoctoral Cancer Immunotherapy Translational Fellowship
Recipient: Li Qiang, PhD
Institution: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Project Title: “Signaling pathways in tumoricidal macrophages in pancreatic cancer”
Award Amount: $200,000 (two year)
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SITC-Amgen Cancer Immunotherapy in Hematologic Malignancies Fellowship
Recipient: Suman Paul, MBBS, PhD
Institution: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Project Title: “T cell receptor variable gene targeting for T cell cancer immunotherapy”
Award Amount: $100,000 (one year)
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SITC-AstraZeneca Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer Clinical Fellowship
Recipient: Jacob Kaufman, MD, PhD
Institution: Duke University Medical Center
Project Title: “Strategies to overcome immunotherapy resistance in LKB1 and KEAP/NRF2 mutated NSCLC: modulating ferroptosis to restore immune sensitivity”
Award Amount: $100,000 (one year)
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SITC-Merck Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship
Recipient: Joseph Clara, MD
Institution: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Project Title: “CRISPR-Cas9-based gene editing to enhance cytotoxicity of natural killer cells against multiple myeloma”
Award Amount: $100,000 (one year)
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SITC-Genentech Women in Cancer Immunotherapy Fellowship
Recipient: Natalie Vokes, MD
Institution: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Project Title: “Dissecting the molecular mediators of treatment response and resistance evolution in NSCLC"
Award Amount: $50,000 (one year)
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SITC's Holbrook Kohrt, MD, PhD Cancer Immunotherapy Translational Memorial Fellowship (Sponsored by Genentech)
Recipient: Kipp Weiskopf, MD, PhD
Institution: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Project Title: “Engaging macrophages to eliminate cancers with driver mutations”
Award Amount: $50,000 (one year)
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2020 NCI Immunotherapy Fellowship
Recipient: John Shin, MD
Institution: Mayo Clinic Rochester
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. This 1-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.
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The 2020 SITC Fellowships were made possible through the generosity of Amgen, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bristol Myers Squibb, Genentech, Inc., Merck, EMD Serono.