Students in the Cancer Biology Program have won prestigious institutional and external awards for their academic scholarship, mentorship and community service. Below are lists of awards recently received.
For more information on these awards, visit the Morningside Awards for Scholarship, Education, and Community Service website.
| Year | Student | Faculty advisor | Award |
| 2025 | Kensei Kishimoto | William Flavahan | Riccio Award |
| 2024 | Kensei Kishimoto | William Flavahan | Michael R. Green, MD, PhD, Award in Graduate Research |
| Chaitanya Parikh | Marcus Ruscetti | Riccio Award | |
| Jessica Peura | Jason Pitarresi | Zelda Haidak Award | |
| Ayush Kumar | Art Mercurio | 2024 UMass Chan Three Minute Thesis Competition Runner Up | |
| 2023 | James Shen | Eric Baehrecke | Outstanding Thesis Research Award |
| Calvin Johnson | Jason Pitarresi | Dan Mullen Award for Scientific Achievement | |
| 2022 | Daniel Hidalgo | Merav Socolovsky | Chancellor’s Award |
| Daniel Hidalgo | Merav Socolovsky | Class Speaker Award | |
| Jordan Smith | Wen Xue | Outstanding Thesis Research Award | |
| 2021 | Daniel Hidalgo | Merav Socolovsky | Student Community Service Leadership Award |
| Daniel Hidalgo | Merav Socolovsky | Outstanding Student Mentor in the Classroom or Research Setting Award | |
| Sumeet Nayak | Sharon Cantor | Class Speaker Award | |
| 2020 | Dimpi Mukhopadhyay | Art Mercurio | Zelda Haidak Award |
| Sookyung Kim | Cole Haynes | Zelda Haidak Award | |
| Melanie Walker | Art Mercurio | Student Community Service Leadership Award |
| Year | Student | Faculty advisor | Award |
| 2025 | Ayush Kumar | Art Mercurio | 2024 AMA Research Challenge Grand Prize Winner |
| Favour Akabogu | Matthew Hemming | 2025 Vertex Biomedical Science Career Scholarship | |
| Favour Akabogu | Matthew Hemming | Ruth and Williams Silen M.D. Award | |
| 2024 | Chaitanya Parikh | Marcus Ruscetti | AACR Scholar-in-training Award to attend the AACR Special Conference in Advances in Pancreatic Cancer Research |
| Chaitanya Parikh | Marcus Ruscetti | Trainee Award by Aegean Conferences to attend the 6th International Conference on Cytokines in Cancer | |
| 2023 | Ayush Kumar | Art Mercurio | 2023 Lasker Essay Contest Winner |