Challenge Awards
Class of 2024


2024 Stewart J. Rahr Foundation – PCF Challenge Award

Temporal Charting of Treatment-Related Lethal Prostate Cancer Lesions Using Liquid Biopsies and Multi-Region Tumor Sequencing: Development, Testing, and Validation of a Computational Framework Within the PCF SELECT, PRIME, and PEACE Consortia

Principal Investigators: Francesca Demichelis, PhD (Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy), Gerhardt Attard, MD, PhD (University College London, UK)

Co-Investigator: Mariam Jamal-Hanjani, MD, PhD (University College London, UK)

Young Investigator: Yari Ciani, PhD (Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy)

Collaborators: Orazio Caffo, MD (Santa Chiara Hospital, Italy), Umberto Basso, MD (Istituto Oncologico Veneto, Italy)

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2024 Larry & Sherry Benaroya – PCF Challenge Award

Development and Optimization of CEACAM5-Targeted Imaging and Therapeutics

Principal Investigators: Scott Tagawa, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine), Sarah Cheal, PhD (Weill Cornell Medicine), Nai-Kong Cheung, MD, PhD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

Co-Investigators: James Kelly, PhD (Weill Cornell Medicine), David Rickman, PhD (Weill Cornell Medicine), Joseph Osborne, MD, PhD (Weill Cornell Medicine), Edward Fung, PhD (Weill Cornell Medicine), Juan Miguel Mosquera, MD, MSc (Weill Cornell Medicine)

Young Investigator: Sandra Huichochea Castellanos, MD (Weill Cornell Medicine)

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2024 Larry & Sherry Benaroya – PCF Challenge Award

Characterizing B-Cell Receptor Repertoire to Understand Immunotherapy Response in Prostate Cancer

Principal Investigators: Lucia Nappi, MD, PhD (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Co-Investigators: Faraz Hach, PhD (University of British Columbia, Canada), Amina Zoubeidi, PhD (University of British Columbia, Canada), Julie Graff, MD (Oregon Health & Science University)

Young Investigators: Morgan Roberts, PhD (Vancouver Prostate Centre, Canada)

Collaborators: Martin Gleave, MD (University of British Columbia, Canada), Kim Chi, MD (BC Cancer, Canada), Alexander Wyatt, PhD (University of British Columbia, Canada), Robert Bell, MSc (Vancouver Prostate Centre, Canada)

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2024 Stewart J. Rahr Foundation – PCF Challenge Award

Optimizing Patient Selection for PSMA Targeted Radiotherapy Using Individual Lesion Characteristics   

Principal Investigators: Glenn Liu, MD (University of Wisconsin – Madison), Robert Jeraj, PhD (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Co-Investigators: Steve Cho, MD (University of Wisconsin – Madison), Jens Eickhoff, PhD (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

Young Investigator: Johnathan Floberg, MD, PhD (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

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2024 Larry & Sherry Benaroya – PCF Challenge Award

Targeting Metabolic Drivers of Liver Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer

Principal Investigators: Andrew Goldstein, PhD (University of California, Los Angeles), Adam Sowalsky, PhD (National Cancer Institute)

Co-Investigators: Matthew Rettig, MD (University of California, Los Angeles), Isla Garraway, MD, PhD (University of California, Los Angeles), Freddy Escorcia, MD, PhD (National Cancer Institute), Heather Christofk, PhD (University of California, Los Angeles), Thomas Vallim, PhD (University of California, Los Angeles), JuanJuan Yin, MD, PhD (National Cancer Institute), David Elashoff, PhD (University of California, Los Angeles)

Young Investigators: Amjad Askary, PhD (University of California, Los Angeles)

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