BCAN Award for Bladder Cancer Research
Presented to Dr. Elizabeth Guancial

BCAN is proud to present Dr. Elizabeth Guancial with its inaugural Bladder Cancer Research Award.

The BCAN Bladder Cancer Research Award was established to advance research that will increase the understanding of bladder cancer risk, biology, prevention and treatment while encouraging young investigators to pursue a career in bladder cancer research. Guancial was selected from a highly qualified pool of grant applicants.

The $25,000 one-year grant will help support Guancial’s research project to identify new biomarkers that can serve to identify patients who will respond to platinum-based chemotherapy for muscle invasive and advanced bladder cancer. “Ultimately I hope that my research efforts will reveal predictive markers for bladder cancer that can be used in clinical protocols and potentially lead to targets for therapeutics,” states Guancial.

Guancial is a Fellow in the Dana Farber/Partners Cancer Care Hematology/Oncology program in Boston. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School where she spent one year as a Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, pursuing focused research on cell motility and invasion. She completed her internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

BCAN greatly appreciates the dedicated efforts of its Grant Review Committee: Dr. Mark Gonzalgo, Stanford University; Dr. Donna Hansel, Cleveland Clinic; Dr. Ashish Kamat, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Dr. Matthew Milowsky, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Dr. Mark Soloway, University of Miami; Dr. Gary Steinberg, University of Chicago.

Please contact BCAN if you have any questions.  You can reach us at grants@bcan.org or speak to a BCAN staff member at 301-215-9099.