2026 Cancer Research Day Award Winners
Basic Science - Grad Students
- First place: Maria Casiano
- First place: Devon McCourry
- Second place: Ethan Golditch
- Third place: Katelyn Caric
- Honorable mentions: Sunandan Chakrabarti
- Honorable mentions: Jessica Kersey
- Honorable mentions: Carolina Martínez-Eraso
Basic Science, Behavioral, Population Science/Epidemiology and Translational/Clinical Research - Medical and Undergraduate Students
- First place: Annika White
- Second place: Aaron L. Allred
- Third place: Tarnema Eldakar
- Honorable mention: Emma Kay
- Honorable mention: Kenneth Virgin
- Honorable mention: Alexa Taillon
Basic Science Post-Doc/Medical Fellow/Resident
- First place: Jessica Occhiuto
- Second place: Jimin Park
- Third place: Soumya Tumbath
- Honorable mention: Jiazhi Xu
- Honorable mention: Sanya Hayati Laleh
Basic Science and Translational / Clinical Research - Research Technician/Research Associate, Staff
- First place: Jennifer Rooks
- Second place: Abdullahi Iduwu
- Third place: Jathniel Hernandez
- Honorable mention: Nicholas Wojcicki
- Honorable mention: Ankeeta Koirala
Behavior and Population Science/Epidemiology - Graduate Students
- First place: Stella Snyder
- Second place: Yejin Seo
- Third place: Xue-Jing Liu
- Honorable mention: Alexandra T. Hughes
Behavioral, Population Science/Epidemiology and Translational/Clinical Research - Post-Doc/Medical Fellow/Resident
- First place: Christa Torrisi
- Second place: Ali Ajrouch
- Third place: Shieun Lee
- Honorable mention: Hussein Khalil
- Honorable mention: Andrew Thyen
- Honorable mention: Suhang You
Translational / Clinical Research - Graduate Students
- First place: Lauren K. Stevens
- Second place: Truc T. Vuong
- Third place: Ishani Chattopadhayay
- Honorable mention: Jensen Mast
- Honorable mention: Muhammad Ibtassam Qadir
- Honorable mention: Christopher Schorr
Most Community Engaged Research Poster
- First place: Maria Isabel Viteri
- Second place: Ali Ajrouch
Post Docs/Medical Fellows Selected for oral presentations:
- Boping Jing
- Rohit Nagare
Graduate Students Selected for oral presentations
- Jenna Koenig
- Meenakshi Rajamohan
