Young Investigator Awards
Class of 2024


2024 Lucy Shostak – PCF Young Investigator Award In Honor of Eliott Abramowitz, PhD

Investigation of a Novel NSD2 Inhibitor KTX-1001 in Targeting Lineage Plasticity and Treatment Resistance in NEPC and mCRPC Subtypes

Jia Li, PhD
Columbia University Medical Center

Mentors: Michael Shen, PhD; Charles Sawyers, MD

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2024 The John Black Charitable Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award

Validation and Clinical Qualification of Biomarkers Associated with PC Inflammation That Have Multi-Purpose Clinical Utility

Arian Lundberg, PhD
Institute of Cancer Research

Mentors: Johann de Bono, MD, PhD; Marco Bezzi, PhD; Wei Yuan, PhD

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2024 The John & Daria Barry Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award in Honor of Jason Wilson

Dissecting Myeloid-Mediated Mechanisms of Immunotherapy Resistance in Advanced Prostate Cancer at Single-Cell Resolution

Aram Lyu, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Mentor: Lawrence Fong, MD

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2024 Zuckerman Family Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award

ProsGATE: Geriatric Assessment and Technology Evaluation in Prostate Cancer

Nabiel Mir, MBBS
University of Chicago

Mentors: Russell Szmulewitz, MD; Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH; Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH

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2024 The John & Daria Barry Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award

Artificial Intelligence to Augment MRI-Based Identification of Extraprostatic Extension and Predictive Models for Prostate Cancer

Hiten Patel, MD, MPH
Northwestern University

Mentors: Ashley Ross, MD, PhD; Ulas Bagci, PhD; Adam Murphy, MD, MBA

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