BMC Cancer Research Innovator Award

Congratulations to the recipients of the BMC Cancer Research Innovator Awards, a new research grant program to support junior faculty at the beginning of their careers who are performing innovative research in cancer and areas related to cancer. Award funding is for one year in the amount of $50,000.
 
Hussein Assi, MD
Assistant Professor, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Proposal Title: “Exploring the prognostic significance of ISL-1 expression in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors”

 

Heather Edwards, MD, FACS, FRCSC
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Proposal Title: “Lactobacillus lozenges for the treatment of mild to moderate oral dysplasia”

Elliott Hagedorn, PhD
Assistant Professor, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology
Proposal Title: “Stabilin scavenger receptors and the trans-endothelial migration of blood stem cells”