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Rewiring Cancer’s Protectors: Harnessing Tumor Macrophages as an Anti-Cancer Agent

2026 Endeavor Award

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD and Brian Brown, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Leonard Zon, MD, Harvard University; Brent Stockwell, PhD, Columbia University; Martin Guilliams, PhD, Ghent University

Understanding and Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Gastric Cancer

2026 Endeavor Award

Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, Jenny Ting, PhD, and Elizabeth Brunk, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; John Strickler, MD, Mayo Clinic

Dissecting the Evolution and Heterogeneity of Liver Metastases

2026 Endeavor Award

Sarah-Maria Fendt, PhD, and Colinda Scheele, PhD, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB); Peter Siegel, PhD, McGill University

Blocking Oncogenic Transcription via Ligand-Triggered SUMOylation (BOLTS)

2026 Endeavor Award

Georg Winter, PhD, AITHYRA Research Institute for Biomedical AI; Nicholas Thomä, PhD, and Bruno Correia, PhD, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Nathanael Gray, PhD, Stanford University

Mutation-Specific TP53 Effects on Genome Doubling and cGAS Activation in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

2026 Damon Runyon - Mark Foundation Physician-Scientist

Duaa Al-Rawi, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Investigating the Mechanisms of the Bimodal Age Distribution of Breast Cancer

2026 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE GERALD L LENNARD FOUNDATION

Olga Anczukow-Camarda, PhD, The Jackson Laboratory; Doris Germain, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

How Does Chromosomal Instability Rewire the Cancer Epigenome to Drive Metastasis?

2026 ASPIRE Award

Marcin Imieliński, PhD, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Trevor Graham, PhD, The Institute of Cancer Research

Oncogenic Determinants of Radioligand Therapy Resistance

2026 ASPIRE Award

Pippa Cosper, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Emma Watson, PhD, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School; Jason Sheltzer, PhD, Stanford University

Dissecting the Pivotal Role Of IFN-G in the Perivascular Microenvironment of Brain Metastasis

2026 EACR-Mark Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Alberto Hernandez Barranco, PhD, University of Lausanne

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Rewiring Cancer’s Protectors: Harnessing Tumor Macrophages as an Anti-Cancer Agent

2026 Endeavor Award

Miriam Merad, MD, PhD and Brian Brown, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Leonard Zon, MD, Harvard University; Brent Stockwell, PhD, Columbia University; Martin Guilliams, PhD, Ghent University

Understanding and Overcoming Immunotherapy Resistance in Gastric Cancer

2026 Endeavor Award

Brent Hanks, MD, PhD, Jenny Ting, PhD, and Elizabeth Brunk, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; John Strickler, MD, Mayo Clinic

Dissecting the Evolution and Heterogeneity of Liver Metastases

2026 Endeavor Award

Sarah-Maria Fendt, PhD, and Colinda Scheele, PhD, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB); Peter Siegel, PhD, McGill University

Blocking Oncogenic Transcription via Ligand-Triggered SUMOylation (BOLTS)

2026 Endeavor Award

Georg Winter, PhD, AITHYRA Research Institute for Biomedical AI; Nicholas Thomä, PhD, and Bruno Correia, PhD, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Nathanael Gray, PhD, Stanford University

Mutation-Specific TP53 Effects on Genome Doubling and cGAS Activation in High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

2026 Damon Runyon - Mark Foundation Physician-Scientist

Duaa Al-Rawi, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Investigating the Mechanisms of the Bimodal Age Distribution of Breast Cancer

2026 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE GERALD L LENNARD FOUNDATION

Olga Anczukow-Camarda, PhD, The Jackson Laboratory; Doris Germain, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

How Does Chromosomal Instability Rewire the Cancer Epigenome to Drive Metastasis?

2026 ASPIRE Award

Marcin Imieliński, PhD, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Trevor Graham, PhD, The Institute of Cancer Research

Oncogenic Determinants of Radioligand Therapy Resistance

2026 ASPIRE Award

Pippa Cosper, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Emma Watson, PhD, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School; Jason Sheltzer, PhD, Stanford University

Dissecting the Pivotal Role Of IFN-G in the Perivascular Microenvironment of Brain Metastasis

2026 EACR-Mark Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Alberto Hernandez Barranco, PhD, University of Lausanne