Young Investigator Awards
Class of 2022


2022 CRIS Cancer Foundation and Clay Hamlin – PCF Young Investigator Award

Investigating Radiohybrid PSMA-Ligands for Targeted Alpha Therapy, with the Aim to Improve Targeted Alpha Therapy of Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Alexander Wurzer, PhD
Technical University of Munich

Mentor: Matthias Eiber, MD

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2022 Silas Chou – PCF Young Investigator Award

Targeting SWI/SNF Chromatin Remodeling Complex to Combat Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer

Lanbo Xiao, PhD
University of Michigan

Mentor: Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD

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2022 Dr. Elliot and Nan Abramowitz – PCF Young Investigator Award

Investigating SSTR1 as a Novel Therapeutic Target for Acquired Resistance to Androgen Receptor Signaling Inhibitors in Advanced Prostate Cancer

Xiaolin Zhu, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Mentors: Felix Feng, MD, Rahul Aggarwal, MD, David Quigley, PhD

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2022 William C. and Gina B. Carithers – PCF Young Investigator Award

Multiplex Engineered CAR iNK Cells Targeting B7-H3 to Treat Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancers

Nicholas Zorko, MD, PhD
University of Minnesota / Masonic Cancer Center

Mentors: Jeffrey Miller, MD, Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD, Martin Felices, PhD

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