Programmable Recognition of KRAS Neoantigens for Early Cancer Diagnostics Across Patients 2026 Mark Foundation-AACR-Lustgarten Foundation Early Detection Award Nikolaos G. Sgourakis, PhD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania; Mark A. Sellmyer, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania; Possu Huang, PhD, Stanford University Read More
Molecular Profiling of Ovarian Cancer Precursors to Transform Early Detection and Precancer Stratification 2026 Mark Foundation-AACR-Lustgarten Foundation-Break Through Cancer Early Detection Award Peter K. Sorger, PhD, Sandro Santagata, MD, PhD, and David R. Walt, PhD, Harvard University; Ronny I. Drapkin, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Read More
Towards a Unified Platform for Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Cancer Risk Prediction and Cell-free DNA Surveillance 2026 Mark Foundation-AACR-Lustgarten Foundation Early Detection Award Trevor J. Pugh, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UHN, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; Brian D. Crompton, MD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Paul A. Northcott, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Hospital; Kara N. Maxwell, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Read More
Harnessing Extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) and Aneuploidy Signals in Plasma Whole Genome for Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer 2026 Mark Foundation-AACR-Lustgarten Foundation-Tina’s Wish Early Detection Award for Ovarian Cancer Dan Landau, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine; Ronny I. Drapkin, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania; Paul S. Mischel, MD, Stanford University; Adam Widman, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Read More
Digital Pathology Diagnostics for Robust Stratification of Esophageal Cancer Risk 2026 Mark Foundation-AACR-Lustgarten Foundation-Break Through Cancer Early Detection Award Christina Curtis, PhD and Greg Charville, MD, PhD, Stanford University; William Grady, MD, University of Washington; Rebecca Fitzgerald, MD, University of Cambridge Read More
Paving the Way to VideoTranscriptomics: Benchmarking Spatial Transcriptomics and Building Image Alignment for Spatiotemporal Glioblastoma Immune Mapping 2026 EACR-Mark Foundation-Pezcoller Foundation Rising Star Award Daniel Kirschenbaum, MD, PhD, University Hospital Zurich and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Read More
