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STAT Wunderkinds is a search for the best early-career researchers (postdocs, residents, interns, fellows) in health and medicine.
Nominate a colleague or yourself by July 30th. Please notify Meredith Donnelly of your intention to submit.
> nomination form
> view award FAQ |
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Welcome New Members
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Awards & Distinctions
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Stephen Floor, PhD was selected to join the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences.
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Julian Hong, MD, MS received a 2021 Career Development Award from the Conquer Cancer Foundation.
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Ivan de Kouchkovsky, MD; Swetha Kambhampati, MD; Daniel Kwon, MD; Erica Tsang, MD; and Evan Walker, MD each received a 2021 Young Investigator Award from the Conquer Cancer Foundation.
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Mazie Tsang, MD, MS; Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD; Evan Walker, MD; and Ivan de Kouchkovsky, MD each received a 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Merit Award from the Conquer Cancer Foundation. |
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Franklin Huang, MD, PhD; Alison Rustagi, MD, PhD; and Samuel Washington, MD, MAS were named 2021 Grunfeld Scholars by the San Francisco VA Health Care System.
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Iwei Yeh MD, PhD received a Melanoma Research Alliance Established Investigator Award for a project, "Protein Kinase C fusion - Rare Targetable Initiating Mutation in Melanoma."
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Rahul Aggarwal, MD; Lawrence Fong, MD; Michael Evans, PhD; and Thomas Hope, MD received a PCF Challenge Award for a project, "The Role of Precision Therapy in the Treatment of CDK12 Altered Metastatic Prostate Cancer."
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Felix Feng, MD – along with Drs. Dan Robinson and Ajjai Alva from University of Michigan – received a 2020 Bristol-Myers Squibb-PCF Challenge Award for a project, "177Lu-PSMA-617 as a Radioimmunotherapy for Prostate Cancer."
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Rebecca Brassfield received a 2021 UCSF Health PRIDE Experience Award.
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Dean Sheppard, MD received the UCSF Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award from the Campus Council on Faculty Life.
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Sophie Dumont, PhD recently delivered the 2021 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science. Learn more about her presentation and research.
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UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals have been recognized among the nation’s best pediatric medical centers in all 10 specialties assessed in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of Best Children’s Hospitals for 2021-2022. |
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Recent Publications
Hiam-Galvez KJ, Allen BM, Spitzer MH. Systemic immunity in cancer. Nat Rev Cancer. 2021 Jun;21(6):345-359.
Banerjee R, Shah N, Dicker AP. Next-Generation Implementation of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy Using Digital Health. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2021 Jun;5:668-678.
Castel P, Toska E, Engelman JA, Scaltriti M. The present and future of PI3K inhibitors for cancer therapy. Nat Cancer. 2021 Jun 17.
Lee RH, Kang H, Yom SS, Smogorzewska A, Johnson DE, Grandis JR. Treatment of Fanconi Anemia-Associated Head and Neck Cancer: Opportunities to Improve Outcomes. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 May 27:clincanres.1259.2021.
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Education and Training
 Are you interested in mentoring a medical student for a summer research project (Summer Explore) or for a year-long internship in their 4th year (Deep Explore)? If so, consider participating in the Visit-a-Mentor Program. This program schedules 20-minute planned virtual appointments to connect faculty and students for a research experience. Register here or contact Inquiry@ucsf.edu for more information.
The Cancer Center is sponsoring 5 female faculty to attend the virtual Women in Medicine Summit happening on Sept. 24-25, and we have 2 spots left. If you are interested in attending, please email jennifer.seuferer@ucsf.edu ASAP.
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Events
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