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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

Anjali Agrawal

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

Arnav Barpujari

Arnav Barpujari

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

Monique Kanitz Ruschel

Monique Kanitz Ruschel

University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina

Sona N. Kocinsky

Sona N. Kocinsky

Tufts University
Medford, Connecticut

Bum Seok Lee

Bum Seok Lee

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Ashraf Mahmoud

Ashraf Mahmoud

Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College
Kilimanjaro, Moshi CBD

Deniz G. Olgun

Deniz G. Olgun

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

Elizabeth Ramos

Elizabeth Ramos

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Clara E. Tandar

Clara E. Tandar

Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

Nikhiya Shamsher

Nikhiya Shamsher

Stanford University
Stanford, California

Ammar D. Siddiqi

Ammar D. Siddiqi

Rice University
Houston, Texas

Matthew T. Ye

Matthew T. Ye

Rice University
Houston, Texas

Congratulations to the 2025-2026 AACR Undergraduate Scholar Awardees

Blake M. Arciga

Blake M. Arciga

University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, Missouri

Jonathan Jean Charles

Jonathan Jean Charles

University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida

Cedric Bruges

Cedric Bruges

Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri

Paul A. Daniel

Paul A. Daniel

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

Kylie M. Chan

Kylie M. Chan

University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California

Manami Hasegawa

Manami Hasegawa

The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Rishi Patel

Rishi Patel

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Kevin Song

Kevin Song

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

Emma Sanderson

Emma Sanderson

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma