HICCC Announces 2024 Awardees: Multi-PI Planning Grant, Early Career Development & Trainee Associate Membership Awards
The Hebert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center is proud to announce the 2024-2025 recipients of the HICCC Multi-PI Planning Grant, the Early Career Development Award and the Trainee Associate Membership Program awards. Congratulations to this year's grant and trainee recipients, who are working to advance research and novel care therapies across the cancer continuum.
HICCC Multi-PI Planning Grant
This one-year pilot award program is intended to support the submission of multi-component biomedical research grants (e.g. SPORE, U54, P01, P50) and large multi-PI research grants (e.g. NCATS U01, MPI grants that require NIH preapproval).
"Identifying New Dependencies of Therapy Resistant Pancreatic Cancer Cells"
Tannishtha Reya, PhD, Professor of Basic Science Research in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Co-awardees:
- Kenneth Olive, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine
- Christine Chio, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Development
"Gastric Cancer Across the Continuum; from Early Detection to Metastatic Progression"
Sandra Ryeom, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgical Sciences, Associate Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Co-Awardees:
- Chin Hur, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology
- Akiva Mintz, MD, Professor of Radiology
- Ryan Moy, MD PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Timothy Wang, MD, Professor of Medicine
- Zhigou Zhang, PhD, Professor of Epigenomics and Molecular Biology
2024 Early Career Development & Trainee Associate Membership Program Awardees
The 2024 Early Career Development Awards and Trainee Associate Member (TAM) travel awards and papers of the year awards support up-and-coming graduate and medical student and post-graduate researchers across Columbia University who are working on all aspects of cancer research.
Early Career Development Awards
- Matthew Gallitto, MD- Postdoctoral Residency Fellow & Clinical Instructor
- Alvaro Curiel Garcia, MSc, PhD- Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Department of Medicine
TAM Travel Award
- Suwan Ding, MS- Columbia University PhD student
- Shira Eisman- Columbia University PhD student
- Michael May, MD- Postdoctoral clinical fellow
- Laura Quevedo Palacio, PhD - Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Paper of the Year
- Marie Hasselluhn, PhD - Postdoctoral Research Scientist
- Patricia Ho, MD-PhD - student at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Connor Kinslow, MD- PGY-4 resident at Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Zhiming Li, PhD- Associate Research Scientist
- Mengrui Liu, PhD- Postdoctoral Research Scientist
- Thomas Savage, MD-PhD - Student at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons