On Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019 the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance held its Third Annual Pershing Square Sohn Retreat in Nicholls-Biondi Hall at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, featuring the 2016 Prize winners.
On Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance held its Second Annual Pershing Square Sohn Retreat in Nicholls-Biondi Hall at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island.
At The Rockefeller University's 2018 Women & Science Spring Lecture and Luncheon, 2014 Prize winner Dr. Agata Smogorzewska, a physician-scientist at The Rockefeller University, discussed how new discoveries are fueling the development of innovative cancer therapies, including some that precisely target an individual’s tumor cells by exploiting the cells’ own defects in DNA repair. Some of the work presented was supported by the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance.
On Wednesday, March 8th, 2017 the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance held its inaugural Pershing Square Sohn Annual Retreat at the New York Academy of Sciences.
Through a generous commitment of $25 million from the Pershing Square Foundation, the Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance has created a prestigious program that will award $1.2 million in its first year to exceptional young scientists in New York City with innovative ideas in the field of cancer research.
The Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research was announced on October 22 at the annual Galien Forum in New York.