SCI Innovation Awards

Allison Betof Warner, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (oncology), and her collaborator, Zina Good, PhD, instructor, Stanford Institutes of Medicine, received an SCI Cancer Innovation Award.

Mohammad Esfahani, PhD, assistant professor of radiation oncology (radiation and cancer biology), is the recipient of an SCI Cancer Innovation Award.

Xiaojing Gao, PhD, assistant professor of chemical engineering, received an SCI Cancer Innovation Award.

Amanda Kirane, MD, assistant professor of surgery (general surgery) was awarded an SCI Cancer Innovation Award.

Marvin Langston, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of epidemiology and population health, was awarded an SCI Cancer Innovation Award.

Allison Kurian, MD, MSc, associate professor of medicine (oncology) and of health research and policy, Jennifer Caswell-Jin, MD, assistant professor of medicine (oncology), and their collaborator, James Dickerson, MD, instructor of medicine (oncology), were awarded an SCI Women's Cancer Center Innovation Award.

Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH, MPH, professor of dermatology and of medicine (Center for Digital Health), along with her collaborators, Allison Kurian, MD, MSc, associate professor of medicine (oncology) and of health research and policy, Jennifer Caswell-Jin, MD, assistant professor of medicine (oncology), and Jiyeong Kim, PhD, postdoctoral scholar, dermatology, received an SCI Women's Cancer Center Innovation Award.

An SCI Women's Cancer Center Innovation Award was awarded to Erinn Rankin, PhD, assistant professor of radiation oncology (radiation biology) and of obstetrics and gynecology (oncology), and Edgar Engleman, MD, professor of pathology and of medicine (immunology and rheumatology).

Nathan Reticker-Flynn, PhD, assistant professor of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery (OHNS) was awarded an SCI Women's Cancer Center Innovation Award.

Corinne Beinat, PhD, MSc, assistant professor of radiology (molecular imaging program at Stanford), received a Shmunis Family Innovation Award in Cancer Therapeutics.

Robert Negrin, MD, professor of medicine (blood and marrow transplantation and cellular therapy), and Edgar Engleman, MD, professor of pathology and of medicine (immunology and rheumatology), received a Michael Toshio Cure for Cancer Catalyst Award.

An SCI Innovation Award was given to Amanda Kirane, MD, assistant professor of surgery (general surgery) and Jennifer Dionne, PhD, associate professor of materials science and engineering for their proposal titled “Label-free spatial profiling of the tumor microenvironment for therapeutic prediction.”

Nancy Pham, MD, clinical assistant professor, radiology, Quynh-Thu Le, MD, Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor, Dimitrios Colevas, MD, professor of medicine (oncology), Nancy Fischbein, MD, professor of radiology, and Michael Iv, MD, clinical associate professor, radiology, have been granted an SCI Innovation Award for their project, “Integration of MR perfusion and metabolic imaging biomarkers with circulating EBV-DNA for predicting treatment response and prognostication in patients with nasopharyngeal cancer.”

An SCI Innovation Award was given to Nathan Reticker-Flynn, PhD, assistant professor of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery, for his proposal, “A platform for elucidating the tumor-reactive T cell repertoire of metastatic cancers.”

Melanie Hayden Gephart, MD, MAS, professor of neurosurgery, Marius Wernig, MD, PhD, professor of pathology, and Michael Bassik, PhD, associate professor of genetics were awarded an SCI Nodal Award for their proposal titled “Deconstructing tumor-immune landscape of GBM using engineered 3D assembloids.”

Gerald Crabtree, MD, David Korn, MD, Professor of Pathology and professor of developmental biology, and Nathanael Gray, PhD, Krishnan-Shah Family Professor of chemical and systems biology, were awarded an SCI Pancreatic Cancer Innovation Award for their project, “Rewiring RAS pathway mutations to activate programmed cell death in pancreatic cancer.”

Alyce Adams, PhD, Stanford Medicine Innovation Professor and professor of health policy, epidemiology and population health, and Miriam Goodman, PhD, Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, were awarded an SCI Women’s Cancer Center Innovation Award for their proposal, “Detection & prevention of severe dose-limiting neurotoxicity among adults initiating breast cancer treatment: an interdisciplinary proof of concept study.”

Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD, Baker Family Director of Sarafan ChEM-H, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, received an SCI Women’s Cancer Center Innovation Award for her proposal entitled “Engineering target receptors to boost efficacy of antibody-drug conjugate therapy.”

An SCI Women’s Cancer Center Innovation Award was awarded to Esther M. John, PhD, professor (research) of epidemiology and population health and of medicine (oncology), and Edgar Engleman, MD, professor of pathology and of medicine (immunology and rheumatology), for their proposal, “GPR65 expression, obesity, and breast cancer in a multiethnic population.”

Garry Nolan, PhD, Rachford and Carlota Harris Professor, received an SCI Women’s Cancer Center Innovation Award for his proposal titled “Investigating DCIS progression via 3D volumetric imaging and single-cell spatial-omics.”

Bo Yu, MD, MS, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology (reproductive endocrinology and infertility) was awarded an SCI Women’s Cancer Center Innovation Award for her proposal, “Novel approaches for creating fallopian tube organoids with BRCA1/2 heterozygous mutations.”

Everett Moding, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiation oncology (radiation therapy), was awarded a Behar Innovation Award in Sarcoma Research for his project, “High-resolution longitudinal analysis of sarcoma response to hypofractionated radiotherapy.”