ASTRO-BCRF Annual Meeting Trainee Travel Awardees
The ASTRO-BCRF Trainee Travel Awards are intended to broaden participation in and networking at ASTRO’s Annual Meeting among medical and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and residents. Ten recipients were selected to receive this award to help defray the costs of in-person attendance at the ASTRO 2026 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. The application period for the 2026 travel awards is now closed.
Congratulations to the 2026 ASTRO-BCRF Trainee Travel Award Recipients
 | Aleena Abbasi, BSInstitution: Temple University |
 | Anuoluwapo Ajao, BSInstitution: Case Western Reserve University - School of Medicine |
 | Robert Herrera, BAInstitution: Miami Cancer Institute |
 | Kgosi HughesInstitution: University of Oklahoma, Health Sciences Center |
 | John Kincaid MS, MPhilInstitution: Harvard Medical School |
 | Henry Meyer, BAInstitution: The University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center |
 | Raksha Madhu Narasimhan, BSInstitution: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
 | Afua Ofori-Darko, MPHInstitution: Case Western Reserve University - School of Medicine |
 | Kolade Olabode, MD, MPHInstitution: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc |
 | Nimita Shinde, PhDInstitution: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
Past Recipients of the ASTRO-BCRF Annual Meeting Trainee Travel Awards
2024
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Patrick Carriere, MD, PhDInstitution: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
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Kunika Chahal, MPHInstitution: SUNY Downstate College of Medicine |
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Kamryn DavisInstitution: The University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine |
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Ulysses G. Gardner Jr., MD, MBAInstitution: The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
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Julianie De La Cruz MinyetyInstitution: University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine |
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Luiza Giuliani Schmitt, MDInstitution: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
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Maya Stephens, MSInstitution: Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University |
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Kekoa Taparra, MD, PhDInstitution: Stanford Health Care |
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Marcos Santos TelesInstitution: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School |
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Ester Sanchez Valdez, MSC, MDInstitution: Universidad de la Republica Montevideo, Uruguay |
2025
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Opeoluwa Abraham Akerele, BSInstitution: Tulane University School of Medicine |
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Oluwatosin Ayeni, MBChB, PhDInstitution: University of Witwatersrand |
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Ariel Raimundo Choi, MDInstitution: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center |
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Jonathan Cummock, BSInstitution: Texas A&M University College of Medicine |
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Jacob Elnaggar, PhDInstitution: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center |
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Nahid Howard, MSInstitution: College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific |
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Gene Lamanilao, MDInstitution: University of California, San Diego Health |
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Morgan Levy, MD, MPHInstitution: University of Kentucky Medical Center |
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Juliana Runnels, MDInstitution: Mount Sinai |
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Sabi Shrestha, MDInstitution: University of Texas Health, San Antonio |
The ASTRO-BCRF Trainee Travel Awards are supported by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
