The Foundation is please to announce the following individuals have been selected as Forbeck Scholars for the 2025 Spring Forums.
Harnessing stroma-immune interactions for anti-cancer therapy
- Anna-Maria Globig, MD of Allen Institute for Immunology
- Shruthy Suresh, PhD of Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi, India
Mitochondrial stress in cancer - from worms to patients
- Emma Guilbaud, PhD of Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Alex Papachristodoulou, PhD of Columbia University Irving Medical Center
RNA modifications in mRNA translation and Cancer
- Steffen Fuchs, MD of Charité-University Medicine Berlin
- Zhangli Su, PhD of University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sex differences in etiology, epidemiology, and treatment of cancer
- Panagiotis Karras, PhD of ULB-Université libre de Bruxelles
- Yiming Wang, MD, PhD, FRCPC of The Hospital for Sick Children
Targeting mitochondria in cancer (immuno)therapy
- Hannah Bell, PhD of University of Michigan
- Samuel Weinberg, MD, PhD of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Selecting our Scholars is never an easy decision and we want to send out a huge thank you to all the talented candidates that applied.
Please consider sponsoring one of these scholars during their years of participation in these important meetings. By Sponsoring a Scholar, you are supporting a specific researcher, of your choice, to attend our Forums and Scholar retreats. This gives you the opportunity to connect with them, and follow their progress. Support a Scholar for $1,000 per year for 3 years ($3,000 total commitment) Your generous contribution fuels the next generation of cancer discoveries. For more information contact us or visit wgfrf.org/donate to sign up as a sponsor.
