The AACR-AstraZeneca Clinical Immuno-oncology Research Training Fellowship Program is designed to encourage exceptional clinical research by bridging close collaboration between academia and industry. Fellows have the opportunity to gain experience in early-stage and/or late-stage clinical development at the facilities of AstraZeneca in Gaithersburg, Maryland. 

2023 Grantee

Biography

Dr. Sone received his medical degree at the Nagoya City University in Nagoya, Japan, before completing a residency and a fellowship in respiratory medicine at Kainan Hospital, Japan. He then completed his doctorate at Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medicine, followed by a postdoctoral research year at Nagoya University. He currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, where he aims to interrogate HPV-specific immune responses in patients with head and neck cancers.

Acknowledgement of Support

“I am grateful and honored to be awarded the AACR-AstraZeneca Clinical Immuno-oncology Research Training Fellowship. This fellowship will provide me with further training opportunities in drug development from a different perspective and will be invaluable for my career development as a physician-scientist in the field of immuno-oncology.”