Young Investigator Awards
Class of 2020


2020 CRIS Cancer Foundation-Thomas H. Lee-PCF Young Investigator Award

Improving Outcomes for PARP Inhibition Treatment in Men with Lethal BRCA2 Mutant Prostate Cancer by Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment 

Anastasia Hepburn, PhD
Newcastle University

Mentors: Rakesh Heer, PhD; Robert Bristow, MD

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2020 Foundation Medicine-PCF Young Investigator Award

Developing a Novel ctDNA-Based Approach to Patient Risk Stratification and Treatment Selection in mCRPC: A Large Population-Based Cohort Study 

Daniel Khalaf, MD
BC Cancer Agency

Mentors: Kim Chi, MD; Alexander Wyatt, PhD

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2020 Peter & Laurie Grauer-PCF Young Investigator Award

Using CDK4/6 Inhibition to Augment PSMA Expression in Advanced Prostate Cancer and Enhance Clinical Responses to PSMA-Targeted Radioligand Therapy 

Vadim Koshkin, MD
University of California, San Francisco

Mentors: Eric Small, MD; Thomas Hope, MD; Luke Gilbert, PhD

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2020 Rebecca and Nathan Milikowsky-PCF Young Investigator Award

Targeting Fc Gamma Receptors with StereotacticRadiation to Reprogram Myeloid-Derived Immune Cells in the Prostate Tumor Microenvironment

Ariel Marciscano, MD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Mentors: Chris Barbieri, MD, PhD; Sandra Demaria, MD; Charles Drake, MD, PhD

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2020 Gary and Allison Lieberman-PCF VAlor Young Investigator Award

Towards Targeting African American Prostate Cancer with PARP Inhibitors and Immunotherapy

Kara Maxwell, MD, PhD
Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center; University of Pennsylvania

Mentors: Naomi Haas, MD; Kyle Robinson, MD

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