Junjie Feng

The 2012 John A. Moran – PCF Young Investigator Award

Junjie Feng, PhD:

Wake Forest University

Mentor:

Jiangfeng Xu, MD, PhD

Airi Harui

The 2008 Lynda and Stewart Resnick – PCF Young Investigator Award

Airi Harui, PhD:

University of California, Los Angeles – Los Angeles, CA

Lu Yang

2013 PCF China Young Investigator in Honor of Stanley Zax

Lu Yang, MD:

West China Hospital, Sichuan University

Mentors:

Qiang Wei, MD and Tianyong Fan, MD

Proposal Title:

Treating inflammation to prevent prostate cancer initiation and progression.

Eliezer Van Allen

2013 PCF Young Investigator Award
2016 PCF Challenge Award

Nicole Simone

2013 Ben Franklin-PCF Young Investigator

Nicole Simone, MD:

Thomas Jefferson University

Mentors:

Adam Dicker, MD, PhD, Karen Knudsen, PhD and Peter Carroll, MD

Project Title:

Metabolic approaches for targeting multiple components of the IGF-1R pathway in prostate cancer

Jennifer Rider

2013 Michael & Lori Milken-PCF Young Investigator

Jennifer Rider, ScD:

Harvard School of Public Health

Mentors:

Lorelei Mucci, ScD and Myles Brown, MD

Project Title:

The immunomodulatory and androgen-associated actions of vitamin D in prostate cancer

Atish Dipankar Choudhury

The 2008 Joy and Jerry Monkarsh Family Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award

Atish Dipankar Choudhury, MD, PhD:

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – Boston, MA

Tarek Bismar

The 2008 Robbins Family – PCF Young Investigator Award
The 2012 Robbins Family – PCF Young Investigator Award

Tarek Bismar, MD:

University of Calgary – Canada

Antonina Mitrofanova

2013 Stanley Zax-PCF Young Investigator

Antonina Mitrofanova, PhD:

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Mentor:

Michael Shen, PhD

Project Title:

A systems biology approach to identify and evaluate novel drug targets for aggressive prostate cancer

Marcin Cieslik

2014 Stewart Rahr-PCF Young Investigator

Marcin Cieslik, PhD:

University of Michigan

Mentor:

Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD

Proposal Title:

Clinical Implications of Expressed Pseudogene Transcripts in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Hao Hu

2013 PCF China Young Investigator in Honor of Stanley Zax

Hao Hu, MD, MBBS:

People’s Hospital, Peking University

Mentors:

Kexin Xu, MD, MBBS and Xiaofeng Wang, MBBS

Project Title:

EMI1 and its role in prostate cancer initiation and progression.

Jennifer Bishop

2013 Millennium Pharma-PCF Young Investigator

Jennifer Bishop, PhD:

University of British Columbia

Mentors:

Martin Gleave, MD and Amina Zoubeidi, PhD

Project Title:

Regulation of cell plasticity by the androgen receptor: A novel mechanism of enzalutamide (Xtandi) resistance

Charles Chan

2013 Steve Wynn-PCF Young Investigator

Charles Chan, PhD:

Stanford University School of Medicine

Mentors:

Irving Weissman, MD and Michael Longaker, MD

Project Title:

Identification and therapeutic targeting of cancer stem cell niche interactions in metastatic prostate bone marrow disease