AACR Undergraduate Scholar Awardees 2024-2025
The AACR is pleased to announce the recipients of 2024 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 2024, the AACR and Dr. Brian Rivers have generously supported these awards.
Congratulations to these talented young scholars. The names and affiliations of the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 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
Clara E. Tandar
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
Deniz G. Olgun
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Elizabeth Ramos
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nikhiya Shamsher
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Ammar D. Siddiqi
Rice University
Houston, Texas
Matthew T. Ye
Rice University
Houston, Texas
Congratulations to the 2023-2024 AACR Undergraduate Scholar Awardees
Mariam O. Babajide
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
Aishani S. Gargapati
Rice University
Houston, Texas
Iyana L. Gross
Morgan State University
Baltimore, Maryland
Anay Gupta
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Isabelle Harber
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Kavya Harish
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, Missouri
Daniel John
University of California in San Diego,
San Diego, California
Rachel Kulchar
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
Hanjun Lee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Thomas Li
The University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
George S. Marcos
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Shrey Ramesh
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Elyse Schechter
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Carl Shirley
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Sophie Wu
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina