The Mark Foundation is pleased to announce four recipients of this year’s Momentum Fellowships, as well as the renewal of five existing fellowships. These awards support promising young investigators, enabling them to reach the next level in their careers. All Fellows are nominated by members of The Mark Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee and are funded for one year. Learn more about the fellows and their projects below.
New 2026 Fellows
Bastien Dolfi, PhD, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Investigating the Role of Lipid Alterations in Promoting Immunosuppression in Brain Tumor Macrophages
Brita Ostermeier, PhD, Children’s National Hospital
Assessing HIV-Specific T Cells Against Non-Escape Epitope Targets (HST-NEETs) in Combination with a Stress Ligand Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) as a Novel Therapeutic for HIV-Associated Lymphomas
Constandina Pospori, MB, PhD, Francis Crick Institute
Tissue-Infiltrating Clonal Hematopoiesis Dynamics: Investigating a Hidden Enemy Promoting Tumor Initiation
Emily Ringwalt, PhD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Multiome Analysis of Cerebellar Development and Its Dysregulation in Medulloblastoma
2026 Fellowship renewals
Thang DoCong, PhD, University of California Berkeley
Discovering Rational Discovery Strategies for Degrading Cancer-Driving Transcription Factors
Hannah Fay, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
KDM3B as a Genotype-Specific Target in IDH1/2-Mutant Clonal Hematopoiesis and Leukemia
Pablo Freire, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
A Novel Class of cis-Regulatory Element Bound by Menin Drives the Expression of Lineage-Restricted Promoters
Júlia Matas, PhD, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, The University of Melbourne
Unravelling Non-Genetic Mechanisms of Tumor Evolution Using Real-Time ctDNA Analysis
Ping Wang, PhD, The University of Pennsylvania
Interrogating The Epigenetic Regulatory Modules Driving Exhaustion of Human CAR-T Cells