Young Investigator Awards
Class of 2025


2025 Kimberly Clark-PCF Young Investigator Award

Leveraging Lifestyle Medicine to Improve Survivorship for Vulnerable Metastatic Prostate Cancer Survivors at a Large Safety-Net Hospital

Nnenaya Mmonu, MD

New York University (NYU)

Mentors: Danil Makarov, Stacy Loeb

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2025 Patrice & Precious Motsepe-PCF Young Investigator Award

Rationally Designed Therapeutic Strategies for Effective targeting of DNA-Hypomethylated Prostate Cancers

Pallabi Mustafi, PhD

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Mentor: Michael Haffner; Peter Nelson

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2025 Estate of Frederick Belli and Estate of Joseph Schenick-PCF Young Investigator Award

Investigating a Novel Immunotherapeutic Targeting CEACAM5 in Androgen Indifferent Prostate Cancer

Charles Nguyen, MD

City of Hope

Mentors: Tanya Dorff; John Shively; Jeffrey Wong

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2025 The John Black Charitable Foundation-PCF Young Investigator Award

Real-world Evaluation of Advanced, Late-stage Metastatic Prostate Cancer (REALM)

Pawel Rajwa, MD

University College London (UCL)

Mentors: Veeru Kasiviswanathan, James N’Dow, Shahrokh Shariat

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2025 Neil Bluhm-PCF Young Investigator Award

Epigenetic Priming to Enhance PSMA Expression and Response to PSMA Targeted Therapy in PSMA-Low Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer

Ruben Raychaudhuri, MD

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Mentors: Michael Schweizer; Michael Haffner; Peter Nelson

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