Investigating the Mechanisms of the Bimodal Age Distribution of Breast Cancer
2026 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND 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?
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
Impact of Aging on the Intestinal Stem Cell Niche and Colorectal Cancer
2026 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
Ömer Yilmaz, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Andrew Chan, MD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital
Aging-Associated Inflammation in Lung Cancer Evolution
2026 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
Tuomas Tammela, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Alexander Tsankov, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Targeting LINE-1 to Prevent Age-Dependent Immune Dysfunction in Cancer
2026 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD and Nicholas Vabret, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Vera Gorbunova, PhD, University of Rochester
Senescence-Associated Metabolism in Age-Related Tumorigenesis
2026 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
Corina Amor Vegas, MD, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Joshua Rabinowitz, MD, PhD, Princeton University
Reducing Aging-Associated Blood Cancers by Understanding How TNFα Signaling Causes Dormancy and Transformation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Subsets
2026 PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
Jennifer Trowbridge, PhD, The Jackson Laboratory; Peter van Galen, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Directly Targeting Gq/11 Proteins for Uveal Melanoma Therapy
2026 Drug Discovery Award
Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD; Michelle Arkin, PhD; and Boris Bastian, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
