Four Yale School of Medicine trainees received Conquer Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Awards at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting. The awards are given to promising young physicians during the final years of training to support their transition to faculty appointments and to encourage quality research in clinical oncology.
The Yale recipients and their area of study are: Krishna Iyer, MD, PhD: Targeting the CXCL8-BCL2A1 Axis in Tumor-Associated Neutrophils to Overcome Adaptive Immune Suppression in Colorectal Cancer; Caroline Richburg, MD: Evaluating the Impact of Sociobehavioral Comorbidities and Resource Referral on Surgical Outcomes in Veterans With Cancer; Rajal Sharma, MD, PhD: Investigating Epigenetic Loss of MHC II as a Resistance Mechanism in NSCLC; and Paul Stockhammer, MD, PhD: Determinants of Clinical Outcomes and Therapeutic Sensitivity in ERBB2-mutant Lung Cancer.