ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
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
Neil Vasan, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist who studies how kinases function in cancer cell signaling and therapeutic response, with a clinical focus on breast cancer. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, where he runs his own laboratory and sees breast cancer patients in the clinic. Neil earned his AB/AM in Chemistry at Harvard College and his MD/PhD at Yale University School of Medicine. He received his clinical training in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he was a Chief Fellow, before joining the faculty at MSKCC from 2018-2021. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratories of the late José Baselga, Maurizio Scaltriti, and Lewis Cantley. His work has been published in Science and Nature and he has received grant funding from the NIH/NCI, Susan G. Komen Foundation, and ASCO. He is a recipient of the 2020 AACR NextGen Star award.