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As Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal Cancers, it is my pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2017 Cancers Travel Award is Dr. Cecilia Leung, Ph.D. Dr. Leung is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Giulio Draetta’s laboratory at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
On behalf of Cancers, she will be supported with 1000 Swiss Francs towards travel expenses to attend the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2017 to be held at Washington, D.C., USA.
Dr. Leung’s current research focuses on epigenetic regulation of pancreatic cancer progression. Using pooled shRNA epigenome library, she and her colleagues performed an in vivo loss-of-function screen and identified COMPASS-like complexes, which have specific H3K4 methyltransferase activity, to be key oncogenic drivers of pancreatic cancer. Dr. Leung has co-authored ten publications of which three are as first author, many in high profile journals (such as Nature Communications, Cancer Research and Clinical Cancer Research). She has also already been the recipient of numerous awards.
Prof. Dr. Samuel C. Mok Editor-in-Chief
Cancers 2017 Travel Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Amr Khalifa
University of Genoa, Italy
Camila Agustina Bach
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Samuel Mok
Chairman
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Prof. Alexandre Escargueil
Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine
Dr. Carlos Moreno
Emory University
Dr. Alain P Gobert
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Winner
Luca Falzone
University of Catania, Italy
Jessica D. Johnson
UT Health San Antonio, TX, USA
Award Committee
Dr. Samuel Mok
Chairman
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Prof. Anderson Joseph Ryan
Dr. Gnanasekar Munirathinam
University of Illinois
Dr. Aamir Ahmad
Hamad Medical Corporation
Winner
Micol Baronio
European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Italy
Vasiliki Liaki
Spanish National Cancer Research Center, Spain
Award Committee
Dr. Samuel Mok
Chairman
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dr. Aamir Ahmad
Hamad Medical Corporation
Prof. Ajay Singh
Dr. Lisardo Boscá
CSIC
Prof. Dr. Stefan Burdach
Winner
Diego de Miguel Perez
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA
Luigi Russo
Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy
Award Committee
Dr. Samuel Mok
Chairman
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Prof. KONSTANTINOS BAXEVANIS
ST SAVAS CANCER HOSPITAL
Dr. Federico Cappuzzo
Dr. Fabrizio Bianchi
Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza
Prof. Raffaele Capasso
University of Naples Federico II
Dr. Alan Hutson
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Prof. Claudio Luparello
University
Winner
Cecilia Leung
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX, USA
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