Four Early-Career Cancer Researchers Earn Prestigious Annual Award from NCCN Foundation
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) and the NCCN Foundation® today announced four winners for the 2023 NCCN Foundation Young Investigator Awards. These annual awards honor up-and-coming leaders in oncology research working to investigate and advance cancer care. The honorees will each receive up to $150,000 in funding for projects that will run over two years. The selection process is overseen by the NCCN Oncology Research Program (ORP) which will also provide oversight.
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network's Oncology Research Program to oversee projects focused on kidney cancer, palliative care, detection of early-stage cancer, and racial differences in breast cancer.
- PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) and the NCCN Foundation® today announced four winners for the 2023 NCCN Foundation Young Investigator Awards .
- The 2023 NCCN Foundation YIA recipients are:
Julia Agne, MD, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute
The four researchers, who are all from NCCN Member Institutions, will present their results at a future NCCN Annual Conference. - The NCCN Foundation has awarded more than $10.3 million since 2011 through the YIA program, to a total of 70 researchers.