Congratulations to the Podium Talk and Poster Prize Winners from the 2023 NCI Junior Investigator Meeting

Podium Presentation Award Winners

• Yiling Liu, The University of New South Wales (Cancer TEC): “Biomimetic Polymeric Hydrogels at Physiological Stiffness Reprogram Melanoma Cells”
• Sukrit Singh, MSKCC: “Biophysical parsing of cancer drug resistance using exascale supercomputing”
• Mohita Tagore, MSKCC (CSBC): “GABAergic signaling driven regulation of the melanoma microenvironment”
• Lindsey Fernandez, University of Pennsylvania (PS-ON): Clinical combination therapy optimization through personalized mechanistic models”

Poster Prize Winners

• Daniel Zongjie Wang, Northwestern University: “Targeting tumor-reactive immune cells from peripheral blood for accessible cancer immunotherapy”
• Jane Miglo, University of Illinois – Chicago College of Pharmacy (Cancer TEC): “Effects of Ovulatory Secretions on Pre-Neoplastic Lesions Using Microfluidic PREDICT Platform”
• Wisam Fares, University of Virginia (CSBC): “TGF? Ligand Processing and Signaling are Rewired by TGFBR3 Coreceptor”

Honorable Mentions: Sneha Mitra, MSKCC; Mouhita Humayun, MIT; Taylor Marohl, UVA; Nina Steele, Henry Ford Health; Emma Drabble, University of Miami; and Laura Hueser, Johns Hopkins University.

See the official announcement from NCI online.