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
Dr. Steven Corsello is a physician-scientist and medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Corsello received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by subspecialty training in medical oncology and hematology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is a recipient of the National Cancer Institute K08 Award and the American Society of Clinical Oncology Young Investigator Award. His research, in the laboratory of Dr. Todd Golub, focuses on the application of genomic methods to cancer therapeutic discovery. He currently leads the Drug Repurposing Project, an effort to evaluate all available clinical drugs using information-rich cellular assays and apply the results to develop therapeutic hypotheses. In a recently published study, Dr. Corsello systematically tested existing drugs against barcoded cell lines to discover new cancer vulnerabilities.