2023 Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Awardees

The AACR is very pleased to administer this important program, which provides funds for the participation of early-career, meritorious minority scientists at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023. Scholars are chosen from both minority institutions and the larger bodies of universities, colleges, and research institutes. They are selected on the basis of their qualifications, references from mentors, and an estimation of the potential professional benefit to the awardees.

Since its founding in 1985, the Minority Scholar Awards in Cancer Research program has been supported by a generous grant of the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities. The Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) works to increase the number of underrepresented minorities participating as competitive NCI/NIH-funded cancer researchers.

For 38 years, the AACR has endeavored through this program to reach out to minority predoctoral and postdoctoral students, trainees, and junior investigators as future cancer researchers. The program was created in an attempt to address the serious problem of lack of minority participation in cancer research by offering young minority students and trainees the opportunity to attend and participate in the Annual Meetings and Special Conferences of the AACR.

The AACR would also like to thank Merck and the Change our Future Foundation for providing additional funding to support young minority investigators.

2023 Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Awardees

Salvador Alejo

Nelly A. Arroyo

Crystal Byrd

Alexis E. Carey

Courtney D. Dill

Edward J. Evans Jr.

Matthew E. Fernandez

Esther K. Frimpong

J. Alberto Maldonado

Mauricio A. Marquez Palencia

Pedro T. Ochoa

Afia P. Ohemeng

Dakota D. Okwuone

Greisha L. Ortiz-Hernandez

Dominique V. Parker

Mabel G. Perez-Oquendo

Adeiye Pilgrim

Alexis R. Ramos

Evelyn S. Sanchez Hernandez

Harmony I. Saunders

Jordan Winfield