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The Prostate Cancer Foundation announced the 19 recipients of its 2017 Young Investigator Awards.

The awards — which provide 3 years’ worth of funding, matched by the recipient’s institution — support early career scientists whose work focuses on accelerating the delivery of therapies that extend survival for men with prostate cancer.

“Over the years, [Young Investigator Award recipients’] research has led to advancements in new treatments and vastly improved our understanding of precision medicine, bringing us closer than ever to a cure,” Howard Soule, PhD, chief science officer and executive vice president of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, said in a press release. “We are proud to support this year’s young investigators who are leading projects that will continue to help accelerate the breakthrough discoveries needed to not only further advance therapies, but ultimately defeat prostate cancer once and for all.”

This year’s recipients are Sarah Amend, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University; Michael Augello, PhD, of Weill Cornell Medicine; Maria Carlo, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Elena Castro, MD, PhD, of Spanish National Cancer Research Centre; Michael Cheng, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Robert Flavell, MD, PhD, of University of California, San Francisco; Stephanie Harmon, PhD, of NCI; Stefanie Hectors, PhD, of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital; Thomas Hope, MD, of University of California, San Francisco; Wouter Karthaus, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Fatima Karzai, MD, of NCI; Ping Mu, PhD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Nicholas Nickols, MD, PhD, of University of California, Los Angeles; Yashar Niknafs, PhD, of University of Michigan; Mark Preston, MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital; David Quigley, PhD, of University of California, San Francisco; Konrad Stopsack, MD, MPH, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; David VanderWeele, MD, PhD, of NCI; and Di Zhao, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

This year’s awards total $3.6 million. The foundation has provided more than $47 million to support 223 young investigators since 2007.