Abstract Awards

Each year, ASTRO awards up to 45 investigators who submitted an abstract to the Annual Meeting with an achievement award. Winners are chosen by the Annual Meeting Steering Committee based on the abstracts' peer-reviewed scores.

The application process occurs during the abstract submission process.  Each year, ASTRO published the award criteria, so if you are interested in being considered in future years, please consult the guidelines before submission.  The 2021 guidelines can be found here.

Congratulations to the 2021 Annual Meeting Abstract Award winners!
 

Steven A. Leibel Memorial Award

In partnership with ASTRO and the ABR Foundation we have created the Leibel Memorial Award. This award is given to two Principal Investigators, who must be an ABR board certified, or board-eligible individual who has completed training in radiation oncology or medial physics no more than 10 years prior. This year the award has been presented to two winners:

Daniel Ma, MD - Mayo Clinic
C. Jillian Tsai, MD, PhD, MS - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Learn more about Steven Leibel, MD, the Ann and John Doerr Medical Director of the Stanford Cancer Center, who died Feb. 7, 2008, while vacationing in Hawaii.

International Abstract Award

Vibhay Pareek, MBBS, DNB - National Cancer Institute, AIIMS, New Delhi

Resident Clinical/Basic Science Research Award

Diana Shi, MD - Harvard Radiation Oncology Program (Biology)
Casey Liveringhouse, MD - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute (Clinical)
Haley Perlow, MD - The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Physics)

Basic/Translational Science Award

Scarlett Acklin, MD - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Junior Investigator, Biology)
Phillip Pifer, MD, PhD - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Junior Investigator, Biology)
Shupeng Chen, PhD - Beaumont Health System (Junior Investigator, Physics)
Haidy Nasief, MS, PhD - Medical College of Wisconsin (Junior Investigator, Physics)
Mohammad Rezaee, PhD - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Senior Investigator, Physics)
Esther Vicente, PhD - University of Maryland School of Medicine (Senior Investigator, Physics)
David Konieczkowski, MD, PhD - The Ohio State University (Junior Investigator, Clinical)
Ying Zhang, MD, PhD - Medical College of Wisconsin (Junior Investigator, Clinical)
Maria Thor, MS, PhD - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Senior Investigator, Clinical)
Hong-Jian Wei, PhD - Columbia University Irving Medical Center (Senior Investigator, Clinical)

Nurse Abstract Award 

Henry Inegbenosun, RN, DNP - The University of Maryland School of Nursing

Travel Award

Cameron Callaghan, MD, MS, MPH - University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (Biology)
Priyanka Gopal, PhD - Northwestern University (Biology)
Vinayak Muralidhar, MD, MS - Harvard Radiation Oncology Program (Biology)
Andrea Pesch, BS - University of Michigan (Biology)
Nicholas Rydzewski - University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics (Biology)
Jeffrey Chapman, BS - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Clinical)
Andrew Cook, MD - Henry Ford Cancer Institute (Clinical)
Douglas Holt, MD - University of Colorado (Clinical)
Amar Kishan, MD - University of California, Los Angeles (Clinical)
Tyler Robin, MD, PhD - University of Colorado School of Medicine (Clinical)
Daniel Alexander, BS, MS - Dartmouth College (Physics)
Farnoush Forghani, PhD - University of Colorado Denver (Physics)
Joseph Harms, PhD - Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Physics)
Jian-Yue Jin, PhD - University Hospitals and Case Western Reserve University (Physics)
Hyunsoo No, CMD, MD - Stanford University School of Medicine (Physics)

Resident Recognition Award - Quick Pitch

Jennifer Kwan, MD - University of Toronto (Biology)
Krystel Tran, MBBS - Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia (Clinical)
Matthew Mills, MD - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute (Physics)

Resident Recognition Award - Poster Viewing

Nikol Mladkova, MD, PhD - The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Biology)
Harish Vasudevan, MD, PhD - University of California San Francisco (Biology)
Elizabeth Zhang-Velten, MD, PhD - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Biology)
Matthew Cousins, MD, PhD – University of Michigan (Clinical)
Timothy Griffith, MD - University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute (Clinical)
Adam Johnson, MD - Wake Forest School of Medicine (Clinical)
Kathryn Tringale, MD, MS - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Clinical)
Hassan Jassar, PhD - Medical College of Wisconsin (Physics)
Vangipuram Sai Shreya, MBBS - ACSR Govt. Medical College (India) (Physics)
Michael Wang, MD - University of Toronto (Physics)