The AACR-Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation Scholars In Training

The Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation offers financial support to outstanding young investigators presenting meritorious proffered papers at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting. The Scholar-in-Training Awards are highly competitive and are granted to fewer than 10 percent of applicants, enabling outstanding early-career scientists to share their research findings in the area of TNBC with the international cancer research community.

The 2016 AACR-Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation Scholar-in-Training Awards Recipients are:

  • Alice Turdo, PhD, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
  • Amanda E. D. Van Swearingen, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Bernadette V. Marquez, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO
  • Chetan K. Rane, BPharm, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
  • Daniel C. Rabe, MS, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Gloria V. Echeverria, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  • Hui Liu, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • Jennifer M. Brancato Sahni, BA, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
  • Jessica M. Wagner, BS, Fox Chase Cancer Center: Temple College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
  • Jinyoung Suh, MS, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  • Julie M. Madden, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Mary Kathryn Pitner, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
  • Roman Camarda, BSc, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • Ruchi Roy, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Suzann Duan, BS, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, NV
  • Talha E. Anwar, BS, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Thao Nguyen D. Pham , BA, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

To learn more about each recipient’s research, click here.