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AACR Margaret Foti Scholar-in-Training Awards in Pediatric Cancer Research

Through a generous gift of the Margaret Foti Foundation, these awards recognize outstanding young investigators for their meritorious work in pediatric cancer research and support their attendance to the AACR Annual Meeting.

2018 Awardees

Kristopher R. Bosse, MD

Kristopher R. Bosse, MD

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The antibody-drug conjugate D3-GPC2-PBD potently eradicates neuroblastoma patient-derived xenografts.

Maggie H. Chasse, MS

Maggie H. Chasse, MS

Van Andel Institute

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mithramycin amplifies the imbalance between the BAF and PRC2 complexes to drive apoptosis in rhabdoid tumor

Catherine Drummond, PhD

Catherine Drummond, PhD

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Memphis, Tennessee

Location specificity in fusion-negative rhabdomyosarcoma driven by cell of origin

Fieke W. Hoff, BS

Fieke W. Hoff, BS

University Medical Center Groningen

Groningen, Netherlands

Proteomic profiling of the unfolded protein response identifies patients benefiting from bortezomib in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia

Yu Liu, PhD

Yu Liu, PhD

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Memphis, Tennessee

Exploring somatic DNA structural alteration and aberrant genomic interactions in cancer through GenomePaint

Palaniraja Thandapani, PhD

Palaniraja Thandapani, PhD

New York University School of Medicine

New York, New York

Dynamic 3d chromosomal landscapes in acute leukemia