ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
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
Niraj K. Shenoy, MD, MS, obtained his medical degree from Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, India. He gained exposure in Medical Oncology as a junior resident at St. John’s Medical Hospital, India. He then moved to the United States, and completed a residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Jacobi. Next, he completed a 3-year fellowship in Hematology and Medical Oncology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. During his fellowship at Mayo Clinic, he also completed a Masters in Clinical Research from Drexel University (distance learning). He is American Board certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology. Currently, he is a faculty Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Montefiore, in the physician-scientist track.
His lab works on understanding and targeting the interactions between epigenetic dysregulation, aberrant metabolism, and immune evasion in cancer (with a keen current interest in exploring the therapeutic potential of high-dose ascorbic acid as an anti-cancer agent targeting these mechanisms). As an extension of his pre-clinical work, he has designed three phase 2 randomized clinical trial protocols combining high-dose IV ascorbic acid with the standard of care (in three different cancers- kidney cancer, lymphoma and MDS), which are either actively accruing patients (kidney cancer, lymphoma) or pending regulatory approvals (MDS). His outpatient oncology clinical practice focuses on Genitourinary malignancies (particularly kidney cancer).
His first/ corresponding author work has been published in a number of high impact journals, including JCI, PNAS, Cancer Cell, Annals of Oncology, Blood and Blood Cancer J. He has served as an expert reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed journals in Oncology, has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences, and has received regional and national awards for his research as a young investigator. He also has a keen interest in teaching, and has been inducted into the Leo M. Davidoff Society of the Albert Einstein College of Medcine as a recognition for his teaching accomplishments.