ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2021
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
Jonathan (Yoni) Shoag, MD, is a surgeon-scientist who manages patients with prostate cancer while studying the disease in the lab. He grew up in Beachwood Ohio. Dr. Shoag then attended the University of Pennsylvania graduating Summa cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of Gary Koretzky’s lab studying mast cell signaling. He then went on to Harvard Medical School, where he was in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program, and worked with Zoltan Arany studying angiogenesis and metabolism, graduating Magna cum Laude. He went on to complete his general surgery internship, urology residency, and urologic oncology fellowship at Weill Cornell while working in the lab under the mentorship of Christopher Barbieri. Dr. Shoag recently joined University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University as an Assistant Professor of Urology. He is a member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center's GU malignancy program and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Urology at Weill Cornell.
Dr. Shoag is the recipient of a Damon Runyon Physician-Scientist Training Award, an American Urological Association Research Scholar Award, and a Vinney Scholars Award in addition to others. His work thus far has yielded first author publication in journals including JCI, NEJM, JAMA Oncology, and JCO. His current work is focused on using large data to better diagnose, treat, and understand the biology of prostate cancer.