ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2023
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Edmond M. Chan, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and medical oncologist at Columbia University Medical Center. He earned his BA in molecular and cellular biology at the University of California Berkeley and his MD at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. During his medical training, he performed research with Drs. William Hahn and David Barbie at the Broad Institute and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Medical Student Research Fellow. He completed internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and medical oncology fellowship in the DFCI/Harvard Cancer Center program. He later joined the faculty at the DFCI/Brigham and Women's Hospital. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Adam Bass at the DFCI and Broad Institute. His work has been published several times in Nature and he has received grant funding from the NIH/NCI, Damon Runyon Cancer Institute, and ASCO. Dr. Chan started his laboratory at the Columbia University Medical Center in 2022 and is focused on leveraging genomic and functional genetic approaches to dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying the oncogenesis and survival of gastrointestinal cancers.