Dr. Yufei Wang received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for her research on “Design of CAIX Targeted Fine-Tuned Immune Restoring Safe (FIS) CAR-T Cell Therapy for Metastatic Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma (ccRCC)”. Dr. Wang…
Dr. Sheldon Holder received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for his research on the “Exploration of the causes and effects of increased PIM1 kinase activity in renal cell carcinoma”. Dr. Holder is a physician-scientist at…
Dr. Erin Tagai received a 2022 KCA Psychosocial Focus Award for her research on “Improving patient-reported outcomes for renal cancer patients on active surveillance.” Dr. Tagai is an Assistant Research Professor at Fox Chase Cancer…
Dr. David Braun received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for his research on “Dissecting the immunobiology of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma using single-cell transcriptomics.” Dr. Braun is a medical oncologist and an Assistant Professor of…
Dr. Srinivas Viswanathan received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for his research on “Advancing a Cell Surface Therapeutic Target in Translocation Renal Cell Carcinoma. Dr. Viswanathan is a medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute….
Dr. Pooja Ghatalia received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for her research on “Comparison of immune microenvironment between patients of African and European ancestry with renal cell carcinoma.” Dr. Ghatalia is a medical oncologist and…
Dr. Nazli Dizman received a 2022 KCA Trailblazer Award for her research on the “Impact of CBM588 on metabolomic profile in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC)”. Dr. Dizman is an internal medicine resident…
Three separate phase III clinical trials showed that people with kidney cancer who had undergone nephrectomy (kidney removal) but whose cancer had not yet metastasized, or spread, did not benefit from adjuvant immunotherapy.