TheConquer Cancer Foundation distributed 104 Merit Awards to oncologyfellows who submitted high-quality research for presentation at the2012 ASCO Annual Meeting, five of which were Special Merit Awards forthe highest-ranking abstracts in select categories.

The2012 SpecialMerit Award recipients include:

JamesB. Nachman ASCO Junior Faculty Award in Pediatric Oncology
Yael P. Mosse, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Giles W. Robinson, MD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

BradleyStuart Beller Special Merit Award
Tom Waddell, MBChB, MRCP, Royal Marsden Hospital

BrigidLeventhal Special Merit Award
Fernanda I. Arnaldez, MD, National Cancer Institute, NationalInstitutes of Health

Painand Symptom Management Research Merit Award
LisaK. Sprod, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center

The2012 Merit Award recipients include:

Taher Abu Hejleh, MBBS. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Bamidele Adesunloye, MD, MS, Medical Oncology Branch, National CancerInstitute
Mona Lisa Alattar, MD, University of Texas at Houston Health ScienceCenter
Costantine Albany, MD, Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon CancerCenter
Susan Alsamarai, MD, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Abdullah Altwairgi, MD, National Cancer Institute of Canada, ClinicalTrials Group, Queen's University
Joo Ern Ang, MB BChir, MA, MRCP, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trustand The Institute of Cancer Research
Gaetano Aurilio, MD, PhD, European Institute of Oncology, MedicalOncology
Karen Autio, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Waleed Badreldin, MBBCh, MRCP, St. Barthlomew's Hospital
Justin Balko, PharmD, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Thomas Barron, PhD, Trinity College Dublin
Davide Bedognetti, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health
Peter Birks, MD, University of British Columbia
Irene Brana, MD, Princess Margaret Hospital
Gabriel Brooks, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Marion Carayol, M.S., PhD candidate, University of Montpellier andSt-Etienne
Elena Castro, MD, PhD, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and TheInstitute of Cancer Research
Jamie Chaft, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Matthew Chan, MD, BC Cancer Agency
James Chen, MD, The University of Chicago
Wendy Chiang, MD, Tufts Medical Center
Connie Chiu, MD, John Wayne Cancer Institute, St. John's Health Center
Henry Conter, MD, University of Alberta
Chiara Cremolini, MD, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana
Richard Curry, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Ana Custodio, Medical Oncology Department, La Paz University Hospital
Leticia De Mattos –Arruda, MD, Vall d'Hebron UniversityHospital
Anna Delios, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Ivan Diaz-Padilla, MD, Princess Margaret Hospital
Adrian Fairey, MD, MS, University of Southern California
Charles Ferte, MD, Institut Gustave Roussy
Arianna Gerry, PhD, MPH, Stanford University
Arianna Gerry, PhD, MPH, Stanford University School of Medicine
Isabella Glitza, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson CancerCenter
Emmanuelle Godefroy, PhD, New York University
Cliona Grant, MD, National Cancer Institute
Rachel Grisham, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
Ayca Gucalp, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Michael Haas, MD, Klinikum Grosshadern and Comprehensive Cancer Center,LMU Munich
Christopher Hallemeier, MD, Mayo Clinic
Alan Hanash, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, Duke University Medical Center
Christopher Heery, MD, National Cancer Institute
Thai Ho, MD, PhD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Kathryn Hourdequin, MD, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
David Hyman, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Bernadette Jaeger, MD, Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Amit Jain, MD, Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center
Komal Jhaveri, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Jennifer Kanakry, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Prashant Kapoor, MD, Mayo Clinic
Hiroshi Katayama, MD, JCOG Operations Office, National Cancer Center
Emily Ko, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jenny Ko, MD, University of British Columbia
Michal Krauze, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Philip Lammers, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Lauren Maeda, MD, Stanford University Medical Center
Serge Makarenko, MD, University of British Columbia
Ronac Mamtani, MD, University of Pennsylvania
Luckson Mathieu, MD, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at JohnsHopkins Hospital
Jennifer Matro, MD, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Benjamin Maughan, MD, University of Utah
Anirban Mitra, MD, PhD, USC Keck School of Medicine
Andres Morales La Madrid, MD, University of Chicago
Patrick Morris, MD, MSc, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Rashmi Murthy, MD, MBE, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson CancerCenter
Andrea Necchi, MD, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
Joanne Ngeow, MD, National Cancer Center
Satoshi Nishiwaki, MD, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
Obiageli Ogbata, MBBS, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Mafalda Oliveira, MD, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology
Michael Ong, MD FRCPC, Royal Marsden Hospital
Ashok Pai, MD, University of California, Davis
Channing Paller, MD, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Manali Patel, MD, Stanford University Medical Center
Krina Patel, MD, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Natalia Petenko, MD, N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center RAMS
Jennifer Rauw, MD, University of Toronto
Katherine Reeder-Hayes, MD, MBA, Cecil G. Sheps Center for HealthServices Research
Catherine Richards, MPH, MPhil, Columbia University
Sarmad Sadeghi, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
Sandra Schmitz, MD, Centre du Cancer, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
Wen Wen Shan, MD, University of British Columbia
Simona Soverini, PhD, University of Bologna
Giovanna Speranza, MD, National Cancer Institute
Anuj Suri, MD, The University of North Carolina Hospitals
Cullen Taniguchi, MD, PHD, Stanford University Medical Center
Ben Tran, MBBS, Princess Margaret Hospital
Kelly Trevino, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Che-Kai Tsao, MD, Tisch Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center
Eliezer Van Allen, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Timothy Vreeland, MD, San Antonio Military Medical Center
Christof Vulsteke, MD, University Hospitals Leuven
Lori Weinberg, MD, Cleveland Clinic
Mary Welch, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Kit Man Wong, MD, University of Toronto
Xunhai Xu, MD, New York Presbyterian-Columbia
Susannah Yovino, MD, University of Maryland Medical Center