Forbeck Foundation Scholar Award

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.

2021 Fall Awardees

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Past Award Winners

Year	Scholar	Institution
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	Danfeng Cai, PhD	National Institute of Health
2019	Peter Ly, PhD	UT Southwestern
2019	Kathleen Xie, PhD	Dana Farber Cancer Institute
2019	Issam Ben-Sahra, PhD	Northwestern University
2019	Takahiro Ito, PhD	Broad Institute
2019	Mitchell Machiela, ScD, MPH	National Institute of Health
2019	Elma Zaganjor, PhD	Harvard University
2019	Laura Banaszynski, PhD	UT Southwestern
2019	Jessica Foster, MD	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2019	Cassie Kline, MD, MAS	University of California San Francisco
2019	Nneka Mbah, PhD	University of Michigan
2019	Jay Sarthy, PhD	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2019	Shruti Bhatt, PhD	Dana Farber Cancer Institute
2019	Danielle Shin, MD, PhD	Stanford University
2019	Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD	Dana Farber Cancer Institute
2019	Peter van Galen, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital
2019	Floris Barthel, MD	The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
2019	Marta Potoczny, PhD	National Institute of Health
2019	Enzo Tedone, PhD	UT Southwestern
2019	Tianpeng Zhang, PhD	University of Pennsylvania
2020	Elena Piskounova, PhD	Weill Cornell Medicine
2020	Jatin Roper, MD	Duke University
2020	Sharanya Sivanand, PhD	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2020	Kirsten Bryant, PhD	University of North Carolina
2020	Cihangir Duy, PhD	Weill Cornell Medical
2020	Peter Winter, PhD	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2020	Melinda Biernacki, MD	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2020	Tae Kon Kim	Vanderbilt University
2020	Armin Rashidi, MD, PhD	University of Minnesota
2020	Brooke Emerling, PhD	Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
2020	Andrew Venteicher, MD, PhD	University of Minnesota
2020	Mark W. Zimmerman, PhD	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2020	Semir Bayez, PhD	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2020	Defne Bayik, PhD	Cleveland Clinic Foundation
2020	Camille Jacqueline, PhD	University of Pittsburgh
2020	Jessie Brown, PhD	Columbia University
2020	Adam David Durbin, MD, PhD	Dana Farber Cancer Institute
2020	Loretta Li, MD	Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
2020	Vajira Weerasekara, PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital
2021	Elsa Bernard, PhD	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2021	Pippa Cosper, MD, PhD	University of Wisconsin, Madison
2021	Elena Kuzmin, PhD	McGill University
2021	Thomas Watkins, PhD	University College London and the Francis Crick Institute
2021	Jeong Hyun Ahn, PhD	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2021	Aravinthkumar Jayabalan, PhD	Johns Hopkins University
2021	Hermann Schmidt, PhD	Stanford University School of Medicine
2021	Carlos Mendez-Dorantes, PhD	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2021	Robert Banh, PhD	New York University
2021	Ana Patricia Da Silva Gomes, PhD	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
2021	Alison Ringel, PhD	Harvard Medical School
2021	Aguirre de Cubas, PhD	Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2021	Charles Ishak, PhD	Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network
2021	Michael Meers, PhD	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2021	Hyo Sik Jang, PhD	Van Andel Institute
2021	Giulia Petroni, PhD	Weill Cornell Medical College
2021	Andrew Hong, MD	Emory University and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
2021	Emre Kocakavuk, MD	University Hospital Essen & The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
2021	John Prensner, MD, PhD	Broad Institute/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2021	Eric Gardner, PhD	Weill Cornell Medicine
2021	Catherine Meador, MD	Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
2021	Nitin Roper, MD	National Cancer Institute
2021	Ofer Shoshani, PhD	Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, UCSD
2021	Massa Shoura, PhD	Stanford University School of Medicine
2021	Sihan Wu, PhD	Children's Research Institute, UT Southwestern