Craig Dowdy was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation at age 62. That meant regular checks for blood clots. During one such check, a tumor was found on Craig’s left kidney. Having never had any kidney cancer…
Megan Conley was diagnosed with chromophobe renal cell carcinoma in February 2020 and underwent surgery in March during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic uncertainty. She shared her experience and her major learnings and takeaways in…
“I had been thinking of writing a voting song when one night I woke up with a tune in my head. I went to the piano and wrote it down. The words started to come…
Dr. Brandon Manley is a urologic oncologist at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida. He received a 2020 Young Investigator Award for an “Investigation of the Aberrant Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Splicing Proteome to…
Dr. Chiara Di Malta is a postdoctoral fellow at the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine in Pozzuoli, Italy. She received a 2020 Young Investigator Award for her project, called “Exploiting the potential of MiT/TFE…
Dr. Ritesh Kotecha is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He received a 2020 Young Investigator Award for his project “HLA Evolutionary Diversity – A Population Specific Biomarker for…
Dr. Frank Mason is a cell biologist and research assistant professor at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. He received a 2020 Young Investigator Award for his investigation of the “Therapeutic vulnerability of…
Dr. Heather Christofk and Dr. Brian Shuch of the University of California, Los Angeles received a 2020 Advanced Discovery Award for their investigation of “Intracellular asparagine regulates mTORC1 activity and cancer cell proliferation”, which takes…
Dr. Haifeng Yang and Dr. William Kim received a 2020 Advanced Discovery Award for their project to “Investigating the anti-tumor efficacy of a STING agonist on PBRM1-deficient ccRCC tumors,” which will examine whether a novel…
Eric Perakslis, PhD is a member of the KCA’s Board of Directors and currently works as a Rubinstein Fellow at Duke University. We spoke with Eric about what motivated him to join our Board of…