Young Investigator Awards
Class of 2024


2024 Estate of Joseph Bolus – PCF Young Investigator Award

Developing Engineered Immune Cell Therapies for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer to Increase Efficacy and Decrease Toxicity

Nour Shobaki, PharmD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Mentors: Carl June, MD; Vivek Narayan, MD

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2024 Michael and Lori Milken Family Foundation – PCF Young Investigator Award

Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Genomic Profiling for Personalized Treatment in Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer

Philip Sutera, MD
University of Rochester

Mentors: Phuoc Tran, MD, PhD; Luciane Tsukamoto Kagohara, PhD; Yuhchyau Chen, MD, PhD

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

A Theranostic Approach: Targeted Alpha Therapy of Delta-Like Ligand 3 Expressing Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer

Salomon Tendler, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Mentors: Jason Lewis, PhD; Michael Morris, MD

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2024 CCPC – PCF Young Investigator Award

Serial Blood-Based Epi-genotyping of Metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) to Understand Response and Resistance to Lutetium-177-PSMA-617 (Lu-PSMA) Treatment Strategies

Sofie Tolmeijer, PhD
University of British Columbia

Mentors: Alexander Wyatt, PhD, DPhil; Shahneen Sandhu, MBBS, FRACP; Louise Emmett, MD, FRACP, FAANMS, MBChB

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2024 Bayer- PCF Young Investigator Award

Multilevel Assessment of Social Needs and Partnering With Community Stakeholders to Prospectively Address Local Barriers to Prostate Cancer Care

Samuel Washington III, MD
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Mentors: June Chan, ScD; Hao Nguyen, MD, PhD; Salma Shariff-Marco, PhD, MPH

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