Young Investigator Awards
Class of 2024


2024 Neil DeFeo – PCF Young Investigator Award

Carissa Chu

STEAP1-Targeted Immunotherapy in Prostate Cancer

Carissa Chu
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Mentors: Felix Feng, MD; Peter Carroll, MD, MPH; David Oh, MD, PhD

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2024 David H. Koch Charitable Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award

Leveraging Multimodal Data to Further Define and Target Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer

Edward Christopher Dee, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Mentors: Puneeth Iyengar, MD, PhD; Dana Rathkopf, MD; Sean McBride, MD, MPH

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2024 Bayer – PCF Young Investigator Award

Identifying Prostate Cancers with Lethal Potential in Active Surveillance Candidates Using a Liquid Biomarker and Digital Pathology

Claire de la Calle, MD
University of Washington

Mentors: Daniel Lin, MD; Tamara Lotan, MD; Michael Haffner, MD, PhD

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2024 Michael & Lori Milken Family Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award in Honor of Patrice and Precious Motsepe

Interrogating Underexplored Subtypes of Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer

Chien-Kuang Cornelia Ding, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

Mentors: Felix Feng, MD; Eric Small, MD; Michael Haffner, MD, PhD

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2024 PCF Young Investigator Award

Development of Inhibitor Targeting Master Regulator ONECUT2 for Advanced Prostate Cancer

Brad Gallent, MD, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Mentors: Michael Freeman, PhD; Ramachandran Murali, PhD

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