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
