The AMP Young Investigator Award encourages junior investigators to ask important original questions; to design sound, controlled experiments with a clear rationale; and to present the results clearly in a poster format. It recognizes the best abstracts submitted by three AMP member trainees who present outstanding basic or applied research in poster format at the AMP Annual Meeting & Expo.
Application opens: April 1, 2025
Application deadline: June 30, 2025
Trainees eligible for this award are students, postdoctoral fellows or residents, and they may be either associate or regular members of AMP.
To qualify for an award, the trainee must be the first author of the submitted abstract and agree to attend the Business/Awards Session at the AMP Annual Meeting & Expo to accept the award personally.
Posters are judged by members of the AMP Training and Education Committee using the following criteria:
Katharine Crawford, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington
Jenie Hwang, M.D., Ph.D., Emory School of Medicine
Allison Haas, Ph.D., University of Utah/ ARUP laboratories
Qing Wei, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Pei-Wei Lee, M.S., Johns Hopkins University
Ting Wen, M.D., Ph.D., University of Utah/ ARUP Laboratories
Jayanta Mondal, B.E., University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Runjun D. Kumar, M.D., Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine
Ekaterina Bogdanova, M.D., Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ryan DeCoste, M.D., Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Canada
Fumin Lin, Ph.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jack Tung, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford Health Care
Subit Barua, Ph.D., Columbia University Medical Center
Erin Degelman, M.Sc., University of Calgary
Derek A. Oldridge, M.D., Ph.D., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Dudley, M.D., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Latrice Landry, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
M. Rabie Al-Turkmani, Ph.D., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Michael D. Carter, M.D., Ph.D., Nova Scotia Health Authority and Dalhousie University, Canada
William R. Jeck, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Nathan D. Montgomery, M.D., Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Caleb Ho, M.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Samia N. Naccache, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, CA
Thomas Pearce, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Midhat Farooqi, M.D., Ph.D., UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Gloria Haskell, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Jacquelyn Reuther, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Yening Daniel Xia, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Noah A. Brown, M.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Eric Q. Konnick, M.D., M.S., University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Bing "Melody" Zhang, M.D., M.S., Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Stanford, CA
Joshua Kapp, B.S., UCL Cancer Institute, Londonshire, UK
Amer Mahmoud, M.D., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Somak Roy, M.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
Gabriel Bien-Willner, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University at St. Louis
Alka Chaubey, Ph.D., DABMG. Greenwood Genetic Center
Eugen Minca, M.D., Ph.D., Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Elena Castellanos Rizaldos, Ph.D., Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Wesley O. Greaves, M.D., The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Bryce Portier, M.D., Ph.D., Cleveland Clinic
Neng Chen, Ph.D., Stanford University
Ruth Ann Luna, Ph.D., Texas Children's Hospital
Coren Milbury, Ph.D.. Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Maria E. Arcila, M.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Alexander C. Mackinnon, M.D., Ph.D., University of Chicago Medical Center
Kandelaria Rumilla, M.D., Mayo Clinic
Hunter Best, Ph.D., Vanderbilt School of Medicine
Christine Schmotzer, M.D., Emory University School of Medicine
William I. Towler, M.S., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Lindsay Bickel, B.S., Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
Justin Cole, M.D., Ph.D., Emory University Hospital
Jill Hagenkord, M.D., University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Karin Finberg, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
Sunita Park, M.D., Emory University Hospital
David Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Brigham & Women's Hospital
Aaron Bossler, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Sallyanne Fossey, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Medical School
M. Fernanda Sabato, M.S., Virginia Commonwealth University
Rebecca Upcher Manson
Jonathan A. Schumacher
Rodney Shackelford, D.O., Ph.D.
Shelly P. Gunn, M.D., Ph.D.
Marina N. Nikiforova, M.D.
Rodney Shackelford, D.O., Ph.D.
Catherine Dumur, Ph.D.
Jennifer L. Rakeman, Ph.D,
Ryan S. Robetorye, M,D, Ph,D,
Valeria Mas
Kathleen M Murphy, Ph.D.
Raj Rolston, M.D.
Andrea Albinger-Hegee
Brett Fritz, M.S.
Marc Skacel, M.D.