18th Annual Zubrod Memorial Lecture & Cancer Research Poster Session
Carl H. June, MD is the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is currently Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at the Perelman School of Medicine, and Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, 1979. He had graduate training in Immunology and malaria with Dr. Paul-Henri Lambert at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland from 1978-79, and post-doctoral training in transplantation biology with E. Donnell Thomas and John Hansen at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle from 1983 – 1986. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. He maintains a research laboratory that studies various mechanisms of lymphocyte activation that relate to immune tolerance and adoptive immunotherapy for cancer and chronic infection.
In 2011, his research team published findings detailing a new therapy in which patients with refractory and relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia were treated with genetically engineered versions of their own T cells. The treatment has also now also been used with promising results to treat children with refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He has published more than 350 manuscripts and is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including election to the Institute of Medicine in 2012 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014, the William B Coley award, the Richard V Smalley Memorial Award from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer, the AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology, the Philadelphia Award in 2012, the Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Science in 2014 (shared w S. Grupp, B. Levine, D. Porter), the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (shared w J. Allison), the Novartis Prize in Immunology (shared w Z. Eshaar and S. Rosenberg), the Karl Landsteiner Memorial award, the Debrecen Award and a lifetime achievement award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
2017 Outstanding Faculty Award Winners
Basic Scientist of the Year
Ramin Shiekhattar, Ph.D.
Director, Cancer Epigenetics Research Program, Chief, Division of Cancer Genomics & Epigenetics
Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Clinical Researcher of the Year
Breelyn A. Wilky, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Miller School of Medicine
Community-based Researcher of the Year
Alberto J. Caban-Martinez, DO, Ph.D., MPH, CPH
Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences, Director of the UM Director of the Musculoskeletal Disorders and Occupational Health Lab, and Deputy Director of the MD/MPH Program
Mentor of the Year – Junior Faculty
Nipun Merchant, M.D.
Vice Chair of Surgical Oncology Services, Chief of the
Division of Surgical Oncology in the Department of Surgery, Chief Surgical Officer and Associate Director of Translational Research (Interim) of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Mentor of the Year – Trainees
Mark L. Gonzalgo, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Urology, Miller School of Medicine
Director, Urologic Oncology Fellowship
Teacher of the Year
Pasquale Benedetto, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
2017 Zubrod Poster Winners & Categories
Basic Science: Graduate students
Fiorella Magani, M.S. – Abstract #16
Research mentor Dr. Kerry Burnstein
Michael D. Birnbaum, B.S. Abstract #5
Research mentor Dr. Fangliang Zhang
Basic Science: Post-doctoral fellows
Jianping Li, M.D. – Abstract #15
Research mentor Dr. Feng-Chun Yang
Clinical Research
Joyson Kodiyan, M.D. – Abstract #44
Research mentor Dr. Stephen Ramey
Translational & Population-Based Research
Sabrina Copsel, Ph.D. – Abstract #59
Research mentor Dr. Robert Levy