October 2011: Award & PhD Recipients

Frank Lappin Horsfall, Jr. Fellowship

Jr-Shiuan Yang
Faculty Mentor: Eric C. Lai, PhD

Dorris J. Hutchison Fellowship

Poulami Samai
Faculty Mentor: Stewart Shuman, MD, PhD

Louise and Allston Boyer Young Investigator Awards

Boyer Basic Research Award
Johanna A. Joyce, PhD
Associate Member
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Boyer Clinical Research Award
Ross L. Levine, MD
Assistant Member
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Postdoctoral Research Awards

Liisa Kauppi, PhD
Faculty Mentor: Scott N. Keeney, PhD

Shaun K. Olsen, PhD
Faculty Mentor: Christopher D. Lima, PhD

Poulikos I. Poulikakos, PhD
Faculty Mentor: Neal Rosen, MD, PhD

C. Chester Stock Award Lectureship

Lloyd J. Old, MD
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Willet F. Whitmore Award for Clinical Excellence

David G. Pfister, MD
Chief, Head and Neck Oncology Service
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Katharine Berkan Judd Award Lectureship

Lewis C. Cantley, PhD
Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center
Harvard Medical School

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Biomedical Research

Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD
President
The Rockefeller University

Recognition of the Doctoral Dissertation Research
Sloan-Kettering Division
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences

Renato A. Bauer
Strategies for the Synthesis of Scaffolds Found in Natural Products
Faculty Mentor: Derek S. Tan, PhD

Alice Hawley Berger
Role of DOK Proteins in Lung Tumor Suppression and Opposition of Oncogenic EGFR and KRAS
Faculty Mentor: Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD

George Boutsalis
Oncogenic Potential of ERG and TMPRSS2: ERG Variants in Prostate Cancer
Faculty Mentor: Luca Cartegni, PhD

Deming Chau
Biochemical and Pharmacological Study of Gamma-Secretase in Alzheimer’s Disease and Cancer
Faculty Mentor: Yueming Li, PhD

Juliann Chmielecki
Identification and Functional Characterization of Aberrant Tyrosine Kinases in Cancer
Faculty Mentor: William Pao, MD, PhD

Freddy E. Escorcia*
Alpha-particle Radioimmunotherapy of Tumor Vasculature, Vascular Remodeling, and Chemotherapy
Faculty Mentor: David A. Scheinberg, MD, PhD

Jie Fan
Structural Basis for the ssDNA Binding Mechanisms of Replication Protein A
Faculty Mentor: Nikola P. Pavletich, PhD

Elena Fomchenko
Understanding the Cellular Complexity of Gliomas
Faculty Mentor: Eric C. Holland, MD, PhD

Yosif Ganat
BAC Transgenic Embryonic Stem Cells Provide Therapy and Insights into Parkinson’s Disease
Faculty Mentor: Lorenz P. Studer, MD

Vasilena Gocheva
Exploring the Roles of Cysteine Cathepsins in the Tumor Microenvironment
Faculty Mentor: Johanna A. Joyce, PhD

Joshua Wayne Hagen*
Regulatory Potential and Development Function of Drosophila Melanogaster MicroRNA - 315
Faculty Mentor: Eric C. Lai, PhD

Ruchi Jain
Biochemical Insights into RNA Processing Enzymes and a Bacterial Triphosphate Tunnel Metalloenzyme
Faculty Mentor: Stewart Shuman, MD, PhD

Mary Elizabeth Madabhushi
Bmp2 in the Visceral Endoderm Directs Anterior Morphogenesis during Mouse Gastrulation
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth H. Lacy, PhD

Lori Anne Mainwaring
The Role of Mitogenic Sonic Hedgehog and Insulin-like Growth Factor Signaling in the Developing Cerebellum
Faculty Mentor: Anna M. Kenney, PhD

Kamalika Moulick
Understanding the Biological Relevance of Chaperone Modulation in Transformed Systems
Faculty Mentor: Gabriela Chiosis, PhD

Urszula Nowak
The Splicing Regulator PTBP2 Is a Novel AID Interactor That Promotes Binding of AID to Switch Region DNA
Faculty Mentor: Jayanta Chaudhuri, PhD

Polloneal Ocbina
Intraflagellar Transport, Cilia, and Developmental Signaling Alternate
Faculty Mentor: Kathryn V. Anderson, PhD

Juan-Manuel Schvartzman
Mad2 Upregulation Mediates the Chromosome Instability Imparted by Rb Pathway Inhibition
Faculty Mentor: Robert Benezra, PhD

Jonathan Henry Seideman
Mechanisms of Apoptosis, Cellular Resistance, and Pharmacologic Protection in Alpha Particle Radioimmunotherapy
Faculty Mentor: David A. Scheinberg, MD, PhD

Tanaya Shree*
Tumor-Associated Macrophages and Cathepsin Proteases in the Microenvironmental Modulation of Chemotherapeutic Outcome
Faculty Mentor: Johanna A. Joyce, PhD

Deniz Ozlem Simsek
The Role of DNA Ligases in Chromosomal Translocation Formation
Faculty Mentor: Maria Jasin, PhD

Nikhil Singla
Taking a Chemical Biology Approach: Semisynthesis of the Eph Receptor Tyrosine Kinase for Structural and Mechanistic Studies
Faculty Mentor: Dimitar B. Nikolov, PhD

Carlos Hipolito Villa*
Applications of Carbon Nanotubes in Cancer Immunotherapy
Faculty Mentor: David A. Scheinberg, MD, PhD

Guocan Wang
The Role of LRF/POKEMON in Cancer Pathogenesis and Development
Faculty Mentor: Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD

Yihu Xie
Sructural and Functional Studies of PIKK Regulation
Faculty Mentor: Nikola P. Pavletich, PhD

Xuehong Yu
Molecular Mechanism of Angiopoietin-1-Mediated Signaling
Faculty Mentor: Dimitar B. Nikolov, PhD

* MD/PhD