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2026 – 2028 Research Scholar Award Recipients
Allyson Shea, MD, PhD
Project Title: “Pyridone Metabolites in the Urinary Tract: Drivers of Infection Susceptibility and Pathogen Virulence”
Institution: University of South Alabama
Primary Mentor: Lorie Fleck, MD
Sponsor: AUA Southeastern Section
Angelica Cruz Lebron, PhD
Project Title: “Relationship between gut microbial ß-glucuronidases and androgens as a driver of prostate cancer risk and treatment resistance."
Institution: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Primary Mentor: Karen Sfanos, PhD
Sponsor: Society of Urologic Oncology Specialized Programs of Research Excellence
Anjali Yadav, PhD
Project Title: “The role of SPOP mutation in opposing lineage plasticity in neuroendocrine prostate cancer”
Institution: Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Primary Mentor: Christopher Barbieri, MD, PhD
Sponsor: Indian American Urological Association Anupam Ted Kedia Award
Betsy Hopson, PhD
Project Title: “SAFE-CIC: Sexual Health, Autonomy, and Family Education for Clean Intermittent Catheterization”
Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Primary Mentor: Stacy Tanaka, MD
Sponsor: Societies for Pediatric Urology Sushil Lacy, MD
Bettega Costa Lopes, PhD
Project Title: “Mapping the interoceptive function of bladder cells using fMRI”
Institution: The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.
Primary Mentor: Aaron Mickle, PhD
Sponsor: Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction Hari Badlani Award
Fang Liu, MD
Project Title: “Ascending Spinal System in Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndromes”
Institution: Washington University in St.Louis
Primary Mentor: Vijay Samineni, PhD
Sponsor: AUA South Central Section
Justin Chan, MD
Project Title: “Regenerative Restoration of Physiologic Testosterone Production via 3D-Bioprinted Leydig Cell Implants”
Institution: University of British Columbia
Primary Mentor: Ryan Flannigan, MD
Sponsor: Sexual Medicine Society of North America Award
Lauren Elizabeth Corona, MD
Project Title: “Personalizing Prevention and Optimizing Non-antibiotic Therapies in Children at Risk for Urinary Tract Infection”
Institution: Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC)
Primary Mentor: Kerri Cavanaugh, MD
Sponsor: AUA Southeastern Section
Mindy Graham, PhD
Project Title: “Targeting innate immune lectin receptors to disrupt premetastatic niche formation in prostate cancer”
Institution: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Primary Mentor: Sarki Abdulkadir, MD, PhD
Sponsor: AUA North Central Section
Siyuan Cheng, PhD
Project Title: “Developing an AI-Biopsy to Organoid (AIB-O) Platform for Prostate Cancer Prognosis and Therapeutic Screening”
Institution: Yale University
Primary Mentor: Ping Mu, PhD
Sponsor: AUA New England Section
Soum Lokeshwar, MD, MBA
Project Title: “NEPHRO-GLP: Perioperative GLP-1 Therapy to Improve Renal Recovery After Nephrectomy in Obese Patients with RCC”
Institution: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Primary Mentor: Nirmish Singla, MD
Sponsor: AUA Mid-Atlantic Section
Yaru Xu, PhD
Project Title: “Targeting CRNDE Deficiency-Driven Metabolic Reprogramming to Reverse Lineage Plasticity and Overcome Therapy Resistance in Prostate Cancer”
Institution: Yale University
Primary Mentor: Ping Mu, PhD
Sponsor: Chesapeake Urology Associates Sanford J. Siegel, MD Prostate Cancer Research Scholar Award
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