Conquer Cancer®, the ASCO Foundation, is proud to announce the recipients of its 2019 Breakthrough Merit and Abstract Awards. These awards recognize oncology fellows, junior faculty and trainees for their valuable research in clinical cancer treatment and technology innovations in cancer care. Awardees will present their research at the inaugural ASCO Breakthrough: A Global Summit for Oncology meeting taking place on October 11-13, 2019, in Bangkok, Thailand.

Abstract Awards support the first authors of the 48 highest-rated abstracts selected for presentation at the ASCO Breakthrough Summit. The awards are supported by the Conquer Cancer’s Mission Endowment. See the complete list of 2019 Breakthrough Summit Abstract Award recipients here.

Merit Awards recognize the quality and scientific merit of research submitted by oncology fellows and trainees to an ASCO meeting.

The 2019 recipients for the ASCO Breakthrough Summit Merit Awards are:

Kin Wai (Tony) Hung
University of California, Los Angeles

Karen Levy
Stanford University

Hongnan Mo
Peking Union Medical College

Reza Moghareabed
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Ankur Sharma
Genome Institute of Singapore

Polina Shilo
I. V. Davidovskiy Hospital

Vijay Srinivasalu
Mazumdar Shaw Medical Center

Akiko Tateishi
National Cancer Center Hospital

Victoria Teoh
The Royal Marsden Hospital

Liang Wen
Zhejiang University School of Medicine

Xiufeng Wu
Fujian Provincial Cancer Hospital

Yudi Xiong
Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University