Damon Runyon Scholars

The Scholar Award, an annual stipend of $100,000 for each of the three years, supported a Scholar’s independent investigation in the cancer field at a critical time in their research career, their first faculty position. This award was discontinued in 2006.

2006 Recipients
^Howard Y. Chang, MD, PhD
Kenneth G. and Elaine A. Langone Scholar
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Jayanta Chaudhuri, PhD
Fraternal Order of Eagles Scholar
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Victoria M. D’Souza, PhD
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Kathryn M. Ferguson, PhD
Dennis and Marsha Dammerman Scholar
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania    
2005 Recipients
Qinghua Liu, PhD
David Z. Rudner, PhD
Julien Sage, PhD
Aaron F. Straight, PhD
Hai Yan, MD, PhD  
2004 Recipients
Steven D. Bruner, PhD
Arshad B. Desai, PhD
Neil Hunter, PhD
Eckhard Jankowsky, PhD
Mohammad Movassaghi, PhD  
2003 Recipients
Anders M. Näär, PhD
Phillip A. Newmark, PhD
Ardem Patapoutian, PhD
Kenneth E. Prehoda, PhD
Hui Zou, PhD  
2002 Recipients
^Koichi Akashai, MD, PhD
Laura D. Attardi, PhD
Mark T. Bedford, PhD
^Peter S. Nelson, MD
Suzanne L. Rutherford, PhD  
2001 Recipients
Dan P. Felsenfeld, PhD
Yi Wei Jiang, PhD
^Randall W. King, MD, PhD
^Peter P. Lee, MD
^Theodora S. Ross, MD, PhD
^Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD  
2000 Recipients
^Guido Franzoso, MD, PhD
Carla Koehler, PhD
John V. Moran, PhD
Peter Tontonoz, MD, PhD
Tso-Pang Yao, PhD  
1999 Recipients
^Jeffrey D. Axelrod, PhD
Lin Chen, PhD
Yukiko Goda, PhD
Michelle D. Wang, PhD
Hongtao Yu, PhD  
1998 Recipients
Robert J. Duronio, PhD
Chen-Ming Fan, PhD
Ramesh A. Shivdasani, MD, PhD
James B. Skeath, PhD  
1997 Recipients
Philip A. Cole, MD, PhD
Erik Mathias Jorgensen, PhD
Mark A. Lemmon, PhD  
1996 Recipients
Brian D. Dynlacht, PhD
Anirvan Ghosh, PhD
David Pellman, MD

 

^Physician-Scientist