Current and Former Awardees
Physician-Scientists
2024 Recipients
Rahul S. Bhansali, MD
"Investigating chromatin architectural dynamics mediated by LDB1 in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia"
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University of Pennsylvania
Xiaoli Mi, MD
"Origin and evolution of long-lived CAR T cells in patients with hematologic malignancies"
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Vignesh Shanmugam, MD
"Uncovering microenvironmental dependencies in follicular lymphoma"
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
Rebecca L. Zon, MD
"Defining the mechanism of thrombosis in patients with multiple myeloma"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2023 Recipients
Nicole M. Cruz, MD
"Understanding the role of KMT2D in MLL-AF9 acute myeloid leukemia"
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The Rockefeller University
Mounica Vallurupalli, MD
"Defining the mechanistic implications of SF3B1 mutations in MDS"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Nina Weichert-Leahey, MD
"Elucidating the role of KAT6A and KAT6B in the epigenetic reprogramming of neuroblastoma to enforce neuronal differentiation"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2022 Recipients
Wallace A. Bourgeois, MD
"Characterizing mechanisms of resistance to Menin inhibitors in KMT2A-rearranged and NPM1-mutant AML"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Mark B. Leick, MD
"Engineering novel CAR T cells for AML: translating lessons from correlative studies and other diseases"
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Mira A. Patel, MD
"Molecular mechanisms of human APOE-mediated myeloid cell modulation in cancer"
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The Rockefeller University
2021 Recipients
Caitlin F. Bell, MD
"Smooth muscle cell plasticity in the tumor microenvironment: another parallel between atherosclerosis and cancer"
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Stanford University School of Medicine
Albert E. Kim, MD
"Using liquid biopsy and MRI to non-invasively identify therapeutic targets for brain metastases"
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Massachusetts General Hospital
(Peter) Geon Kim, MD
"Elucidating the mechanisms of inflammation in clonal hematopoiesis"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2020 Recipients
Elisa A. Aquilanti, MD
"Targeting telomerase in glioblastoma"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dennis J. Hsu, MD
"Metabolic determinants of codon usage bias in colorectal cancer"
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University of Pittsburgh
Andrew L. Ji, MD
"Cancer cell-extrinsic and intrinsic control of tumor progression and intratumoral heterogeneity"
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Stanford University School of Medicine
2019 Recipients
Edmond M. Chan, MD
"Validating a novel synthetic lethal target for microsatellite unstable cancers"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Andrew J. Dunbar, MD
"Interrogating functional contribution of JAK2V617F in the maintenance of myeloproliferative neoplasms"
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Gabriel K. Griffin, MD
"Enhancing cancer immunotherapy through epigenetic modulation of the repetitive genome"
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jonathan E. Shoag, MD
"Harnessing clinical data to identify new prostate cancer therapeutics"
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University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Rabi Upadhyay, MD
"Determining the distal effects of gut microbiota on the lung tumor microenvironment, cancer progression, and checkpoint blockade efficacy"
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NYU Grossman School of Medicine
2018 Recipients
Nicholas C. DeVito, MD
"Investigating the role of EMT-mediated dendritic cell tolerization in checkpoint inhibitor resistance"
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Duke University
John R. Ferrarone, MD
"Seeking and evaluating novel therapeutic targets in human lung adenocarcinomas with loss-of-function mutations in LKB1"
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Weill Cornell Medicine
Lillian M. Guenther, MD
"Investigation of CITED2 as a novel dependency in Ewing sarcoma"
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Harshabad Singh, MBBS
"Epigenetic evolution of pancreatic adenocarcinoma during combination chemotherapy"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2017 Recipients
Christopher J. Gibson, MD
"The biology and clinical implications of clonal hematopoiesis in cancer patients"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Sakiko Suzuki, MD
"Inflammatory cell death pathways in Myelodysplastic Syndromes"
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University of Massachusetts Medical School
2016 Recipients
Kristopher R. Bosse, MD
"GPC2 as an oncogene and immunotherapeutic target in high-risk neuroblastoma"
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2015 Recipients
Carolyn C. Jackson, MD, MPH
"Genetic dissection of pediatric classic Kaposi sarcoma"
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Loretta S. Li, MD
"Mechanisms of disease and resistance in CRLF2-rearranged B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia"
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
