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Association awards research fellowships
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The Association of American Cancer Institutes awarded translational cancer research fellowships to Olya Grove, PhD, and Piro Lito, MD, PhD.
The 1-year, $50,000 grants — funded by Amgen and Astellas — are designed to ensure that qualified applicants from AACI member institutions receive training and experience under the guidance of established investigators who have demonstrated success in their fields of research.
Grove — a postdoctoral research fellow at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla. — will pursue a project, titled “Imaging Hypoxia in Lung Cancer,” under the guidance of mentor Robert J. Gillies, PhD.
Lito — a fellow in medical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — will pursue a project, titled “Does Spry expression confer sensitivity to RAF inhibitors in BRAF V600E tumors?” under the guidance of mentor Neal Rosen, MD, PhD.
“The goal of the fellowship is to assist the trainee in becoming a high-caliber, productive independent researcher with an enduring focus on translational research relevant to cancer,” Barbara Duffy Stewart, MPH, executive director of AACI, said in a press release.