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Friday, June 24, 2016
SITC Announces the 2016 Cancer Immunotherapy
Fellowship Award Recipients
The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) is proud to announce the recipients of the SITC 2016 Cancer Immunotherapy Fellowship Awards. The fellowship award program was established through SITC's Forward Fund to support the development of young investigators in the field in order to cultivate the next generation of cancer immunotherapy experts.
SITC would like to thank all of the partnering organizations listed below who helped to make these awards possible. Please join us as we recognize and congratulate these outstanding recipients during the SITC Annual Meeting Award Ceremony on Saturday, November 12, 2016.
SITC-AstraZeneca Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship in
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Recipient
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Miguel F. Sanmamed, MD, PhD
Yale University, United States
Amount: $100,000 for one year
Project: “Identifying primary and acquired resistance mechanisms to PD-1/PD-L1 pathway blockade in non-small cell lung cancer patients using immune-patient-derived xenograft model”
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SITC-EMD Serono Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship Recipient
Eric L. Smith, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
Amount: $100,000 for one year
Project: “Investigating and manipulating the interplay between the tumor microenvironment and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T cell therapy to generate durable remissions in multiple myeloma”
SITC-Genentech Cancer Immunotherapy Basic Fellowship in
Related Biomarkers Recipient
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Ada G. Blidner, MSc, PhD
Immunopathology Laboratory
Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine, Argentina
Amount: $40,000 for one year
Project: “Unraveling the role of the galectin-1/glycan axis in T cell exhaustion and resistance to cancer immunotherapy”
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SITC-Genentech Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship in Related Biomarkers or Mechanism of Action (MOA) Recipient
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Claire F. Friedman, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States
Amount: $40,000 for one year
Project: “The tumor immune microenvironment and response to CTLA-4 blockade in PD-1 refractory metastatic melanoma”
SITC-MRA Young Investigator Award Recipient
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Ping-Chih Ho, PhD
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Amount: $225,000 for three years
Project: “Immunometabolic editing facilitates immune evasion
in melanomas”
NCI Immunotherapy Fellowship Recipient
This fellowship was co-sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and SITC and made possible in part by an educational grant from EMD Serono.
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Julius Strauss, MD
Albert Einstein Medical Center New York, United States
SITC Forward Fund to Provide 31 Travel Awards
for SITC's 2016 Annual Meeting
SITC will offer a total of 31 Young Investigator Awards to accepted abstract submitters, recognizing excellence in novel research and providing early career scientists with the experience necessary for successful careers. The abstract submission period is currently open and accepting applications through August 8, 2016. For information on these opportunities, including submission criteria and eligibility, click here.
About SITC's Forward Fund
The Forward Fund provides grants that will help attract the brightest young minds in cancer and/or immunology research to the cancer immunotherapy space. The Fund also educates established clinical oncologists regarding the application and potential benefits of this treatment modality. The future of cancer immunotherapy lies in research and education, primarily by early career scientists.
How You Can Help:
• General contributions
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If you are interested in the different ways you can help to stimulate the future of the science, development and application of cancer immunotherapy through financially supporting its education and research, please click here to learn more.
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