The Awards
AACR-GlaxoSmithKline Outstanding Clinical Scholars are promising young investigators who are the first authors and presenters of highly meritorious proffered papers in clinical cancer research. The Awards provide a travel grant of $4,000 to be spent over two years in support of the Scholars' participation and presentation of data at the AACR 100th Annual Meeting and future AACR meetings and conferences.
Congratulations to the winners!
Mark M. Aloysius, M.B.B.S., Clinical Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Abstract # 731, Generation in vivo of enhanced of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) peptide (p540 or p865) specific CD8+ T cell response is best achieved by vaccination with peptide-pulsed dendritic cells (DCs) activated and matured in vitro with TNF-α but l.
Uchechi Anyanwu, B.S., Medical Student, Penn State University, Hershey, PA, Abstract # 689, Elevated pretreatment serum TIMP-1 level predicts reduced PFS and overall survival in trastuzumab-treated metastatic breast cancer patients.
Gerhardt Attard, M.D., Clinical Fellow, Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, Abstract # 5412, Molecular characterization of circulating tumor cells (CTC) from castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients (pts) treated with abiraterone acetate (AA).
Sheetal V. Bajaj, M.D., Graduate Student, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Abstract # 2181, Identification of a putative biomarker that uniquely characterizes translocation-positive alveolar rhabdomyosarcomas.
Jayshree L. Hirpara, M.B.B.S., Research Fellow, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Abstract # 683, Mislocalization of Apaf-1 as a mechanism of drug resistance in B-cell lymphoma.
Jose A. Karam, M.D., Chief Resident, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, Abstract # 1609, Prognostic value of Survivin in patients with bladder cancer.
Jung Eun Lee, Sc.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Abstract # 1979, Folate intake and the risk of colorectal cancer and adenoma in two large prospective studies: modification by time.
Anne Marie McKnight, B.S., Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, Abstract # 983, Racial and socioeconomic disparities in cervical cancer mortality in New York City, 1995-2006.
Rohit Mehra, M.D., House Officer I, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Abstract # 5399, The role of TMPRSS2: Ets gene fusions in androgen independent metastatic prostate cancers.
Anirban P. Mitra, M.D., Graduate Student, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, Abstract # 1017, Associations of smoking and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use with molecular alterations in urinary bladder cancer.
Mahsa Mohebtash, M.D., Clinical Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, Abstract # 718, Clinical outcomes following immunotherapy with a MUC1/CEA vaccine in patients with metastatic breast and ovarian cancer.
Alexei Morozov, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Fellow, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Abstract # 185, Mesenchymal stem cell features of sarcoma cell lines and primary cultuResearch.
Leon Raskin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Abstract # 2604, HMGA2 is a novel prognostic factor in melanoma.
April A. N. Rose, B.S., Graduate Student, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, Abstract # 2713, Translational relevance for ADAM-10 mediated shedding of GPNMB/Osteoactivin, a novel mediator of recurrence in triple negative breast cancers.
Gerald Y. Tan, M.D., Clinical Fellow, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, Abstract # 5411, Multiphoton microscopy imaging of periprostatic architecture from fresh human prostatectomy specimens: Promising potential for improving cancer clearance and potency outcomes during nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy.
Tonya C. Walser, Ph.D., Postsdoctoral Fellow, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Abstract # 205, Snail at the intersection of inflammation, EMT, and early lung cancer development: A possible marker of the field cancerization effect.
Lingzhi Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Project Scientist, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, Abstract # 1608, Expression of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 7B: a novel biomarker and prognostic indicator in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Support
Up
to $1,500 per meeting may be used, and reimbursement checks are
provided after the meeting or conference upon submission of proper
documentation of travel, housing, registration, and/or subsistence
expenses for the 100th Annual Meeting 2009 and any other AACR Special Conferences or Meetings through 2012.
Award recipients are required to pay the Annual Meeting
registration fee and make their own travel and housing arrangements.
Therefore, all applicants are encouraged to register immediately to
take advantage of the reduced advance registration rates. Booking
travel and housing early will also ensure that the lowest rates will be
available.
If an Award recipient is unable to attend the Annual
Meeting or will not be the presenter of the abstract, the Award must be
forfeited.