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              • Prostate Exam
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              • Prostate Cancer Causes
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              • Diagnosis and Staging
              • Screening and Early Detection
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              • Gleason Score & ISUP Grade Group
              • Newly Diagnosed
              • Localized or Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
              • Risk Groups
              • Prostate Cancer Metastases
              • PSA Rising
              • What to Ask When Your PSA Is Rising After Initial Treatment
              • Advanced Prostate Cancer
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              • Radiation for Prostate Cancer
              • Surgery for Prostate Cancer
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              • Chemotherapy for Prostate Cancer
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              • Cory Abate-Shen, PhD

                Cory Abate-Shen, PhD

                A Novel Human-to-Mouse-to-Human Approach for the Elucidation..

                Cory Abate-Shen, PhD

                Cory Abate-Shen, PhD

                Award:

                First-time PCF Award Recipient

                University:

                Columbia University Medical Center

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              • Gustavo Ayala, MD

                Gustavo Ayala, MD

                Targeting Neurogenesis in Prostate Cancer The prostate..

                Gustavo Ayala, MD

                Gustavo Ayala, MD

                The Gordon Becker Creativity Award

                University:

                Baylor College of Medicine, Texas

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              • Joshi Alumkal

                Joshi Alumkal, MD

                Dr. Joshi Alumkal is a Professor of..

                Joshi Alumkal

                Joshi Alumkal, MD

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              • Eliezer Van Allen, MD

                Eliezer Van Allen

                Dr. Eliezer Van Allen is an Assistant..

                Eliezer Van Allen, MD

                Eliezer Van Allen

                2013 PCF Young Investigator Award
                2016 PCF Challenge Award

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              • Gerhardt Attard

                Gerhardt Attard

                Dr. Attard earned an MD degree from..

                Gerhardt Attard

                Gerhardt Attard

                The 2008 Susan and James Blair – PCF Young Investigator Award

                Gerhardt Attard, MD, PhD:

                The Institute for Cancer Research – London, UK

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              • Mohamed S. Arredouani

                Mohamed S. Arredouani

                Dr. Arredouani earned a BS Degree in..

                Mohamed S. Arredouani

                Mohamed S. Arredouani

                The 2008 Michael Milken Scholar – PCF Young Investigator Award

                Mohamed S. Arredouani, PhD:

                Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital – Boston, MA

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              • Andrew Armstrong

                Andrew Armstrong

                Dr. Armstrong earned a BS in Biomedical..

                Andrew Armstrong

                Andrew Armstrong

                The 2008 Goergen Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award

                Andrew Armstrong, MD, ScM:

                Duke University – Durham, NC

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              • Vivek Arora

                Vivek Arora

                Preclinical assessment of mechanisms of resistance to..

                Vivek Arora

                Vivek Arora

                2013 Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company

                Vivek Arora, MD, PhD:

                Washington University

                Mentor:

                Charles Sawyers, MD

                Project Title:

                Defining strategies to overcome enzalutamide (Xtandi) resistance

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              • Irfan Asangani

                Irfan Asangani

                The organization of DNA into super-structures is..

                Irfan Asangani

                Irfan Asangani

                2013 The Republic of Tea-PCF Young Investigator

                Irfan Asangani, PhD:

                University of Michigan

                Mentor:

                Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD

                Project Title:

                Characterization and therapeutic targeting of MMSET in prostate cancer

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              • Emmanuel Antonarakis

                Emmanuel Antonarakis

                Understanding resistance to new treatments for advanced,..

                Emmanuel Antonarakis

                Emmanuel Antonarakis

                2013 Steve Wynn-PCF Young Investigator

                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.

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              • Syed Adnan Ali

                Syed Adnan Ali

                Over 1 million prostate biopsies are performed..

                Syed Adnan Ali

                Syed Adnan Ali

                2013 LeFrak Family-PCF Young Investigator

                Syed Adnan Ali, MD:

                Mount Sinai School of Medicine

                Mentor:

                Ashutosh Tewari, MD

                Project Title:

                Intratumor Heterogeneity (ITH) in Prostate Cancer

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              • Rahul Aggarwal, MD

                Rahul Aggarwal

                Dr. Rahul Aggarwal is a Medical Oncologist..

                Rahul Aggarwal, MD

                Rahul Aggarwal

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              • Wassim Abida, MD, PhD

                Wassim Abida, MD, PhD

                Dr. Abida is a medical oncologist and..

                Wassim Abida, MD, PhD

                Wassim Abida, MD, PhD

                Institution:

                Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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              • Andrew J. Astrachan

                Andrew J. Astrachan

                Andrew J. Astrachan

                Andrew J. Astrachan

                Bio:

                Chief Executive Officer
                Onyx Partners, Inc.

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              • Ana Aparicio, MD

                Ana Aparicio, MD

                Ana Aparicio, MD

                Ana Aparicio, MD

                Institution:

                MD Anderson Cancer Center

                Discipline:

                Medical Oncology

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