Young Investigator Awards
Class of 2021


2021 Rob Heyvaert and Bart Heynen-PCF Young Investigator Award

The Impact of Body Composition on Resistance to Androgen Signaling Inhibition (ASI) in Men with Localized High-Risk Prostate Cancer

Andrew Hahn, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Mentors: Christopher Logothetis, MD, Daniel Frigo, PhD, Jennifer McQuade, MD

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2021 ASTRO-PCF Early Career Development Award to End Prostate Cancer

Artificial Intelligence Approaches for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer

Julian Hong, MD
University of California, San Francisco

Mentor: Felix Feng, MD

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2021 Greg Brown in Honor of Plum and Jonathan W. Simons, MD-PCF Young Investigator Award

Automated Interpretation of PSMA and FDG PET Images to Improve Prognosis and Management in Advanced Prostate Cancer

Price Jackson, PhD
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Mentors: Michael Hofman, MBBS, Kai Qin, PhD

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2021 Varian-PCF Young Investigator Award

Dissecting Tumor-Immune Dynamics and Radiotherapy Response in Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer

Sophia Kamran, MD
Harvard: Massachusetts General Hospital

Mentors: Jason Efstathiou, MD DPhil, Eliezer Van Allen, MD

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2021 National Institutes of Health-PCF Young Investigator Award

Leveraging HER2 Inhibition to Sensitize High-Risk Localized “Low AR” Prostate Tumors to Neoadjuvant Intense Androgen Deprivation Therapy

Anson Ku, PhD
National Institutes of Health

Mentors: Adam Sowalsky, PhD, Eytan Ruppin, MD, PhD

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