2025 Awards

2025 Cancer Research Day Award Winners

Basic Science - Grad Students (33 submissions)

  • First place: Haddie DeHart
  • Second place: Garima Baral
  • Second place: Averi Chakraborty
  • Second place: Claire Pfeffer
  • Honorable mentions: Paola Ortiz Gonzalez
  • Honorable mentions: Sarah Gutch
  • Honorable mentions: Savannah Epstein

Basic Science, Behavioral, Population Science/Epidemiology and Translational/Clinical Research - Medical and Undergraduate Students (25 submissions)

  • First place: Derek Krismer
  • Second place: Sidra Ahmad
  • Second place: Janak Mukherji
  • Honorable mention: Josie McQuillan
  • Honorable mention: Aditya Belamkar
  • Honorable mention: Kaitlyn Mills

Basic Science Post-Doc/Medical Fellow/Resident (15 submissions)

  • First place: Van Anh Do-thi
  • Second place: Matthew Jordan
  • Third place: Sofia Ali Syed
  • Honorable mention: Jingwen Yang
  • Honorable mention: Pamela L. Mendoza-Munoz

Basic Science and Translational / Clinical Research - Research Technician/Research Associate, Staff (12 submissions)

  • First place: Jing Xu
  • Second place: Erica Cantor
  • Third place: Jennifer Rooks
  • Honorable mention: Ankeeta Koirala
  • Honorable mention: Janet Panoch

Behavior and Population Science/Epidemiology - Graduate Students (4 submissions)

  • First place: Jonah Wirt
  • Second place: Jonas Ndeke
  • Third place: Kelsey Sinclair
  • Honorable mention: Betsey Nuseibeh

Behavioral, Population Science/Epidemiology and Translational/Clinical Research - Post-Doc/Medical Fellow/Resident (17 submissions)

  • First place: Lokesh Kumari
  • Second place: Subramanyam Dasari
  • Third place: Noah Richardson
  • Honorable mention: Dharambir Kashyap
  • Honorable mention: Asif Adil

Translational / Clinical Research - Graduate Students (21 submissions)

  • First place: Taylar Smith
  • Second place: Muhammad Ibtsaam Qadir
  • Third place: Ceanne Elliott
  • Honorable mention: Jenna Koenig
  • Honorable mention: Colin Beach

Most Community Engaged Research Poster (4 submissions)

  • First place: Anaiya Crowner & Keely Smith
  • Second place: Emma Dellinger

Post Docs/Medical Fellows Selected for oral presentations:

  • Shieun Lee -​ #82
  • Christa Torrisi -​ #83
  • Malak Khalifeh - #147

Graduate Students Selected for oral presentations

  • Gaeun Kim​ - #20
  • Yejin Seo​ - #77
  • Stella Snyder -​ #79
  • Stephanie Adama - #109

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