Sam Kleeman and Alice Wang, members of the Janowitz lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), have both been recognized for excellence in early-career research. Kleeman, a clinical fellow, has won a 2026 Emerging-Generation Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). Wang, a Stony Brook University M.D.-Ph.D. student-in-residence at CSHL, has earned a Predoctoral Fellowship award from the PhRMA Foundation.
ASCI Emerging Generation Awards recognize physician-scientists engaged in immersive research. The award provides Kleeman with access to two years of Early-Career Award programming as well as peer support and mentorship from ASCI’s community of more than 3,500 physician-scientists, including the opportunity to attend the society’s Joint Meeting with the Association of American Physicians and American Physician Scientists Association.
“I am honored to receive an ASCI E-Gen Award for my work in the Janowitz lab studying how anti-tumor immune responses can sometimes misfire and cause autoimmune disease,” says Kleeman. “I am deeply grateful to my mentors Tobias Janowitz and Hiro Furukawa, and the CSHL graduate school for supporting my development as a physician-scientist. The timing is particularly meaningful as I prepare to return to clinical medicine this summer through a research residency pathway in oncology.”
PhRMA Foundation Fellowships highlight promising early-career researchers working in the fields of drug delivery, drug discovery, and translational medicine. Predoctoral Fellowships provide recipients with $30,000 per year for 12, 18, or 24 months. The award will support Wang’s research on molecular mechanisms driving recovery from cachexia, a severe wasting condition that often occurs during late stages of cancer.
“It is an honor to receive the PhRMA Foundation Predoctoral Drug Discovery Fellowship as an M.D.–Ph.D. student,” Wang says. “This project is especially meaningful to me as an aspiring physician-scientist with a strong interest in translational research. I am deeply grateful to my mentor, Tobias Janowitz, and my collaborators at CSHL and Stony Brook University for their guidance and support.”
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