The AACR-Pezcoller Foundation Scholar-in-Training Awards continue the AACR’s long-standing support of the next generation of cancer researchers, aimed:
- to enhance participation in the programs and activities of the AACR by early-career investigators residing in Europe
- to provide these outstanding Scholar-in-Training Awardees with an opportunity to share their research findings with the international cancer research community at the AACR Annual Meeting.
Scholar-in-Training Awards are highly competitive and recognize outstanding young investigators presenting meritorious proofreader papers at the AACR Annual Meeting.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be the first author and presenter of an abstract submitted for presentation at the Annual Meeting.
- Applicants must be an Associate Member of the AACR in good standing
- Nonmember graduate students, medical students and residents, clinical fellows or equivalent, and postdoctoral fellows who wish to apply for a
Scholar-in-Training Award should first submit a Membership Application
The 2024 recipients of the Pezcoller-AACR Scholar-in-Training Fellowships
- Giancarla Bernardo, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan. Project: Antibiotics aerosolization shrinks intratumoral Tregs and impairs lung tumor growth by perturbing the taxonomic structure of tumor-associated microbiota
- Stefanie Baerthel, DFKZ German Cancer Institute Munich. Project: Multimodal Spatial Transcriptomics uncover distinct tumor microenvironment states and cell-cell communication networks in molecular pancreatic cancer subtypes
- Federica Malighetti, University of Milano-Bicocca. Project: Novel ALK mutations in EML4::ALK+ NSCLC resistant to TKIs identified by liquid biopsy
- Jonathan Lim, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. Project: The dendritic cell receptor DNGR-1 shapes immunity to cancer
- Luca Tiraboschi, Humanitas Research Hospital Milano. Project: Unveiling the impact of intratumoral microbiota in the treatment efficacy of soft tissue sarcoma
