Apr 28, 2015
Congratulations to the recipients of Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Merit Awards, awarded to fellows and residents whose research is addressed in high-quality abstracts submitted to an ASCO meeting and recognized for its scientific merit. The following Merit Award winners served as first authors on the submitted abstracts for which they received the award. Learn more about the Merit Awards and their criteria.
2015 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium Merit Awards
Andrea M. Abbott, MD, MS
Moffitt Cancer Center
Kamran A. Ahmed, MD
Moffitt Cancer Center
Benjamin T. Cooper, MD
New York University School of Medicine
Chiara Cremolini, MD
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana Istituto Toscano Tumori
Gary B. Deutsch, MD, MPH
John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John’s Health Center
Thomas J. Ettrich, MD
Ulm University Hospital
Daniel A. Goldstein, MD
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Jin He, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Kavya Krishna, MD
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
Oxana V. Makarova-Rusher, MD
National Cancer Institute
Sheraz Markar, MBBChir, MA, MRCS, MSc
Imperial College London
Eric A. Mellon, MD, PhD
Moffitt Cancer Center
Raphael B. Moreira, MD
Centro Oncológico Antônio Ermírio de Moraes
Adnan M. Nagrial, MBBS
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Lauren M. Postlewait, MD
Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Omar M. Rashid, MD, JD
Moffitt Cancer Center
Jamie C. Riches, DO
Mt. Sinai Health System, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Aaron J. Scott, MD
University of Colorado
Smit Singla, MD, MSc
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Jesse Joshua Smith, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Elizabeth Smyth, MD
Royal Marsden Hospital
I-Chen Wu, MD, PhD
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
The 2015 Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Merit Awards in Gastrointestinal Cancers are supported by AstraZeneca; Lilly; Millennium: The Takeda Oncology company; Onyx Pharmaceuticals; and Shine For Scott, Inc.
2015 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium Merit Awards
Wassim Abida, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Laurence Albiges, MD, PhD
The Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Arun A. Azad, MBBS, PhD, FRACP
BC Cancer Agency
Paramjot Bains, MBBS
Dalhousie University
Helen Chow, MD
University of California, Davis
Aaron Falchook, MD
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bishoy M. Faltas, MD
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Andre P. Fay, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jarett L. Feldman, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Patrizia Giannatempo, MD
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori
Samuel D. Kaffenberger, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Anusha Kalbasi, MD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Jordan Kardos, BS
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Xiande Liu, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Christos Mikropoulos, MSc
Institute of Cancer Research
Rowan Miller, MBBS
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Andrea Necchi, MD
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori
Shalu Pahuja, MD
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Daniele Raggi, MD
Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori
Jorge D. Ramos, DO
University of Washington School of Medicine
Carolina Saldana, MD
Hôpital Henri Mondor
B. Harpreet Singh, MD
National Cancer Institute
Stephen B. Williams, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
The 2015 Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Merit Awards in Genitourinary Cancers are supported by Astra Zeneca; Lilly; Millennium: The Takeda Oncology company; and Onyx Pharmaceuticals.