The Foundation annually selects junior clinical or post-doctoral fellows to be Forbeck Scholars. Scholars apply to a specific Forbeck Forum. They need to have a very high level of scientific achievement as well as relevance to the topic. Awardees attend the Forum they applied to and then the Scholar Retreat for the following three years. During the Forum, recipients of the award have an unrivaled opportunity to interact with international experts in a particular field of cancer research. The Scholar Retreat, which they attend for the subsequent three years, gives them further opportunities to interact with their peers from different fields of cancer research and meet with international experts to discuss their work. Existing awardees have found these interactions invaluable in developing collaborations as well as opening up a variety of career opportunities.
Awardees are selected by a group of past Forbeck Scholars. Scholars selected for Fall meetings will attend a spring Retreat and scholars selected for Spring meetings will attend the fall Scholar Retreat. During these four years, the Foundation will pay all for travel, meals and accommodations to these meetings. All Forbeck meetings, include the Retreats, allow a maximum of 5 slides. Scholar presentation during the retreat may be more of a chalk talk. Mentors present on a mix of science and career.
Other benefits of being a Forbeck Scholar are being able to attend any other Forbeck Forums they are interested. There may be limits on the number of Scholars allowed at a certain meeting or a cap on number of meetings one can attend if this becomes an issue. Forbeck Scholars may also apply to chair a Forbeck Forum on the topic of their choosing.
Year | Scholar | Institution |
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1989 | Stephen Chanock, MD | National Cancer Institute |
1990 | Robert Saylors, MD | Arkansas Children's Hospital |
1991 | David Fisher, MD, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital |
1992 | Gregory Plautz, MD | Cleveland Clinic |
1993 | Daniel Wechsler, MD, PhD | Emory University |
1994 | Elizabeth Yang, MD, PhD | Children's National |
1995 | Robin Hanson, MD, PhD | Mercy Clinic |
1996 | Rachel Altura, MD | Rhode Island Hospital |
1996 | Julie Park, MD | Seattle Children's Hospital |
1997 | Fotis Asimakopoulos | University of Wisconsin |
1997 | David Crawford, MD, PhD | Oklahoma University |
1998 | Scott Dessain, MD, PhD | Lankenau Institute for Medical Research |
1998 | Chenggang Li, PhD | Harvard Medical School |
1999 | Hanno Hock, MD, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital |
1999 | Owen A. O'Connor, MD, PhD | Columbia University |
2000 | Philip Beckhove, MD, PhD | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
2000 | Francesco Galimi, MD, PhD | University of Sassari Medical |
2000 | Catherine Ju-Ying Wu, MD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
2001 | David Tuveson, MD, PhD | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
2002 | Alison Bertuch, MD, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine |
2002 | Jan Karlseder, PhD | The Salk Institute |
2002 | Masashi Narita, MD, PhD | UK Cambridge Institute |
2003 | James Amatruda, MD, PhD | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
2003 | Christopher Bakkenist, PhD | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
2003 | Elsa Flores, PhD | MD Anderson Cancer Center |
2003 | Norman Sharpless, MD | University of North Carolina |
2004 | Edward Attiyeh, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
2004 | Nabeel Bardeesy, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital |
2004 | Anthony Letai, MD, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
2004 | Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD | Vanderbilt University |
2005 | Kimberly Kelly, PhD | University of Virginia |
2005 | Ingo K. Mellinghoff, MD | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
2005 | Michael Safran, PhD | Sheba Cancer Research Center |
2005 | Benjamin B. Williams, PhD | Darmouth Medical School |
2006 | Carla F. Bender Kim, PhD | Children’s Hospital Boston |
2006 | Benjamin L. Ebert, MD, PhD | Harvard Cancer Center |
2006 | Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD | Moores UCSD Cancer Center |
2006 | Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD | Stanford School of Medicine |
2007 | Kristina Cole, MD, PhD | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
2007 | Jun Lu, PhD | Yale University |
2007 | Carl Novina, MD, PhD | Harvard University |
2007 | Andrea Ventura, MD, PhD | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
2008 | Joshua Brody, MD | Mount Sinai Hospital |
2008 | Russell Jones, PhD | McGill University |
2008 | Stefanie Sarantopoulos, MD, PhD | Duke University |
2008 | Lili Yang, PhD | University of California Los Angeles |
2009 | Oliver Ayrault, PhD | Institute Curie |
2009 | Oren Becher, MD | Duke University |
2009 | Clark C. Chen, MD, PhD | University of California San Diego |
2009 | Chang-Hyuk Kwon, PhD | Ohio State University Medical Center |
2010 | Benjamin P. Berman, PhD | USC Epigenome Center |
2010 | Derek Y. Chiang, PhD | Novartis |
2010 | Sharon J. Diskin, PhD | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
2010 | Chris Putnam, PhD | Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research |
2011 | Grant Challen, PhD | Washington University |
2011 | Gary Hon, PhD | University of California San Diego |
2011 | Alvaro Rada-Iglesias, PhD | Stanford University |
2011 | Chris Vakoc, MD, PhD | Cold Spring Harbor |
2012 | Mohit Jain, MD, PhD | Harvard Medical School |
2012 | Julie-Aurore Losman, MD, PhD | Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
2012 | Kathryn E. Wellen, PhD | University of Pennsylvania |
2012 | Hao Zu, MD | Harvard Medical School |
2013 | Maria-Francis Artega, | King’s College London |
2013 | Cory M. Johannessen, PhD | The Broad Institute |
2013 | Kristopher A. Sarosiek, PhD | Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
2013 | Kris Cameron Wood, PhD | Duke University |
2014 | Rosandra Kaplan, MD | National Cancer Institute |
2014 | Chad Pecot, MD | University of North Carolina |
2014 | Mario Shields, PhD | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
2014 | Louise van der Weyden, PhD | Sanger Institute |
2015 | Esra Akbay, PhD | Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
2015 | Annette Kunkele, MD | University Hospital Berlin |
2015 | Shannon Maude, MD | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia |
2015 | Stefani Spranger, PhD | University of Chicago |
2016 | Uri Ben-David, PhD | Broad Institute |
2016 | Lilian Kabeche, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital |
2016 | Mia Levine, PhD | University of Pennsylvania |
2016 | Stefano Santaguida, PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2016 | Jason Sheltzer, PhD | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
2016 | Neil Umbreit, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
2017 | Andrew Aguirre, MD, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
2017 | Donita Brady, PhD | University of Pennsylvania |
2017 | W. Clay Gustafson, MD, PhD | University of California San Francisco |
2017 | Mara Sherman, PhD | Oregon Health & Sciences University |
2018 | Kristopher Bosse, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
2018 | Vivian Chang, MD | UCLA |
2018 | Junne Kamihara, PhD | Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
2018 | Daniela Robles-Espinoza, PhD | National University of Mexico |
2019 | Laura Banaszynski, PhD | UT Southwestern |
2019 | Floris Barthel, MD | The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine |
2019 | Issam Ben-Sahra, PhD | Northwestern University |
2019 | Shruti Bhatt, PhD | Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
2019 | Danfeng Cai, PhD | National Institute of Health |
2019 | Jessica Foster, MD | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
2019 | Takahiro Ito, PhD | Broad Institute |
2019 | Cassie Kline, MD, MAS | University of California San Francisco |
2019 | Peter Ly, PhD | UT Southwestern |
2019 | Mitchell Machiela, ScD, MPH | National Institute of Health |
2019 | Nneka Mbah, PhD | University of Michigan |
2019 | Marta Potoczny, PhD | National Institute of Health |
2019 | Jay Sarthy, PhD | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
2019 | Danielle Shin, MD, PhD | Stanford University |
2019 | Enzo Tedone, PhD | UT Southwestern |
2019 | Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD | Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
2019 | Peter van Galen, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital |
2019 | Kathleen Xie, PhD | Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
2019 | Elma Zaganjor, PhD | Harvard University |
2019 | Tianpeng Zhang, PhD | University of Pennsylvania |
2020 | Semir Bayez, PhD | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
2020 | Defne Bayik, PhD | Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
2020 | Melinda Biernacki, MD | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
2020 | Jessie Brown, PhD | Columbia University |
2020 | Kirsten Bryant, PhD | University of North Carolina |
2020 | Adam David Durbin, MD, PhD | Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
2020 | Cihangir Duy, PhD | Weill Cornell Medical |
2020 | Brooke Emerling, PhD | Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute |
2020 | Camille Jacqueline, PhD | University of Pittsburgh |
2020 | Tae Kon Kim | Vanderbilt University |
2020 | Loretta Li, MD | Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago |
2020 | Elena Piskounova, PhD | Weill Cornell Medicine |
2020 | Armin Rashidi, MD, PhD | University of Minnesota |
2020 | Jatin Roper, MD | Duke University |
2020 | Sharanya Sivanand, PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2020 | Andrew Venteicher, MD, PhD | University of Minnesota |
2020 | Vajira Weerasekara, PhD | Massachusetts General Hospital |
2020 | Peter Winter, PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2020 | Mark W. Zimmerman, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
2021 | Jeong Hyun Ahn, PhD | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
2021 | Robert Banh, PhD | New York University |
2021 | Elsa Bernard, PhD | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
2021 | Pippa Cosper, MD, PhD | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
2021 | Ana Patricia Da Silva Gomes, PhD | H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center |
2021 | Aguirre de Cubas, PhD | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
2021 | Eric Gardner, PhD | Weill Cornell Medicine |
2021 | Andrew Hong, MD | Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta |
2021 | Charles Ishak, PhD | Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network |
2021 | Hyo Sik Jang, PhD | Van Andel Institute |
2021 | Aravinthkumar Jayabalan, PhD | Johns Hopkins University |
2021 | Emre Kocakavuk, MD | University Hospital Essen & The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine |
2021 | Elena Kuzmin, PhD | McGill University |
2021 | Catherine Meador, MD | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center |
2021 | Michael Meers, PhD | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
2021 | Carlos Mendez-Dorantes, PhD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
2021 | Giulia Petroni, PhD | Weill Cornell Medical College |
2021 | John Prensner, MD, PhD | Broad Institute/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
2021 | Alison Ringel, PhD | Harvard Medical School |
2021 | Nitin Roper, MD | National Cancer Institute |
2021 | Hermann Schmidt, PhD | Stanford University School of Medicine |
2021 | Ofer Shoshani, PhD | Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, UCSD |
2021 | Massa Shoura, PhD | Stanford University School of Medicine |
2021 | Thomas Watkins, PhD | University College London and the Francis Crick Institute |
2021 | Sihan Wu, PhD | Children's Research Institute, UT Southwestern |