AACR Undergraduate Scholar Awardees 2025-2026
The AACR is pleased to announce the recipients of 2025 AACR-Undergraduate Scholar Awards. Awards have been given since 1997 and are intended to inspire young science students at the undergraduate level to enter the field of cancer research. The AACR is committed to promoting the education and training of the next generation of dedicated scientists and to facilitating and nurturing their careers in cancer research or cancer-related biomedical science. In 2025, the AACR and Dr. Brian Rivers have generously supported these awards.
Congratulations to these talented young scholars. The names and affiliations of the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 Awardees are listed below, along with the numbers and titles of their poster presentations, where appropriate, and brief video introductions.
Congratulations to the 2024-2025 AACR Undergraduate Scholar Awardees
Anjali Agrawal
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
Arnav Barpujari
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Monique Kanitz Ruschel
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
Sona N. Kocinsky
Tufts University
Medford, Connecticut
Bum Seok Lee
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Ashraf Mahmoud
Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College
Kilimanjaro, Moshi CBD
Deniz G. Olgun
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Elizabeth Ramos
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Clara E. Tandar
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
Nikhiya Shamsher
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Ammar D. Siddiqi
Rice University
Houston, Texas
Matthew T. Ye
Rice University
Houston, Texas
Congratulations to the 2025-2026 AACR Undergraduate Scholar Awardees
Blake M. Arciga
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, Missouri
Jonathan Jean Charles
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida
Cedric Bruges
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Paul A. Daniel
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
Kylie M. Chan
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California
Manami Hasegawa
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Rishi Patel
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Kevin Song
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
Emma Sanderson
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma