Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer names fellowship, award recipients
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Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer announced its 2020 fellowship and award recipients.
This dedicated funding for impactful research is intended to support the next generation of cancer immunotherapy and tumor immunology specialists.
• Li Qiang, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, received the SITC-Bristol-Myers Squibb Postdoctoral Cancer Immunotherapy Fellowship. The $200,000 award is for Qiang’s project titled “Signaling pathways in tumoricidal macrophages in pancreatic cancer.”
• Suman Paul, MBBS, PhD, of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, received the SITC-Amgen Cancer Immunotherapy in Hematologic Malignancies Fellowship. The $100,000 award is for Paul’s project titled “T-cell receptor variable gene targeting for T-cell cancer immunotherapy.”
• Jacob Kaufman, MD, PhD, of Duke University Medical Center, received the SITC-AstraZeneca Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer Clinical Fellowship. The $100,000 award is for Kaufman’s project titled “Strategies to overcome immunotherapy resistance in LKB1 and KEAP/NRF2-mutated NSCLC: modulating ferroptosis to restore immune sensitivity.”
• Joseph Clara, MD, of NIH, received the SITC-Merck Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship Award. The $100,000 award is for Clara’s project titled “CRISPR-Cas9-based gene editing to enhance cytotoxicity of natural killer cells against multiple myeloma.”
• Natalie Vokes, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, received the SITC-Genentech Women in Cancer Immunotherapy Fellowship. The $50,000 award is for Vokes’ project titled “Dissecting the molecular mediators of treatment response and resistance evolution in NSCLC.”
• Kipp Weiskopf, MD, PhD, of Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, received SITC’s Holbrook Kohrt, MD, PhD Cancer Immunotherapy Translational Memorial Fellowship, sponsored by Genentech. The $50,000 award is for Weiskopf’s project titled “Engaging macrophages to eliminate cancers with driver mutations.”
• Todd Triplett, PhD, of University of Texas Dell Medical School, received the SITC-NanoString Technologies Spatial Profiling Award. The award, which provides access to NanoString Technologies’ spatial profiling technology to further research, is for Triplett’s project titled “Determining the interplay between T-ALL and the immune system in distinct organs by digital spatial profiling.”
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