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 Change the Future Fund for providing additional funding to support young minority investigators.
Salvador Alejo
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
Nelly A. Arroyo
Ponce Health Sciences University
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Crystal Byrd
Clark Atlanta University
Atlanta, Georgia
Alexis E. Carey
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Courtney D. Dill
National Cancer Institute
Rockville, Maryland
Edward J. Evans Jr.
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, Colorado
Matthew E. Fernandez
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
Esther K. Frimpong
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Tallahassee, Florida
J. Alberto Maldonado
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Mauricio A. Marquez Palencia
UT Southwestern Medical Center,
Dallas, Texas
Pedro T. Ochoa
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, California
Afia P. Ohemeng
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, Florida
Dakota D. Okwuone
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas
Greisha L. Ortiz-Hernandez
City of Hope
Duarte, California
Dominique V. Parker
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Mabel G. Perez-Oquendo
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Adeiye Pilgrim
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia
Alexis R. Ramos
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Evelyn S. Sanchez Hernandez
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, California
Harmony I. Saunders
University of Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas
Jordan Winfield
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas