YI Award Recipients 2013

Vivek Arora, MD, PhD:

Washington University

Mentor:

Charles Sawyers, MD

Project Title:

Defining strategies to overcome enzalutamide (Xtandi) resistance

Irfan Asangani, PhD:

University of Michigan

Mentor:

Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD

Project Title:

Characterization and therapeutic targeting of MMSET in prostate cancer

Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD:

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Mentors:

Michael Carducci, MD and Jun Luo, PhD

Project Title:

Understanding mechanisms of response and resistance to abiraterone (Zytiga) and enzalutamide (Xtandi) in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, by interrogation of tumor biopsies for androgen receptor splice variants.

Syed Adnan Ali, MD:

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Mentor:

Ashutosh Tewari, MD

Project Title:

Intratumor Heterogeneity (ITH) in Prostate Cancer