2025 Minority Scholar in Cancer Research Awardees

The AACR is very pleased to administer this important program, which provides funds for the participation of early-career, meritorious minority scientists at the AACR Annual Meeting 2024. Scholars are chosen from both minority institutions and the larger bodies of universities, colleges, and research institutes. They are selected on the basis of their qualifications, references from mentors, and an estimation of the potential professional benefit to the awardees.  

Since its founding in 1985, the Minority Scholar Awards in Cancer Research program has been supported by a generous grant of the National Cancer Institute’s Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities. The Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) works to increase the number of underrepresented minorities participating as competitive NCI/NIH-funded cancer researchers.  

For 39 years, this program has offered young minority students and trainees the opportunity to attend and participate in the Annual Meetings and Special Conferences of the AACR.  

The AACR would also like to thank Merck and the Change our Future Foundation for providing additional funding to support young minority investigators.