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Yale Cancer Center Expert Receives Kidney Cancer Association's Rising Star Award

November 05, 2024

David Braun, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (medical oncology), pathology, and urology at Yale School of Medicine and a member of the Center of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at Yale Cancer Center, received the Christopher G. Wood Rising Star Award by the Kidney Cancer Association at the 2024 International Kidney Cancer Symposium in Louisville, KY. He was given the award at a ceremony during the symposium, which took place between November 7 and 9. Dr. Braun, who is also the Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman Yale Scholar at the Yale School of Medicine, is currently studying mechanisms of response and resistance to immunotherapy in kidney cancer, with the goal of developing novel therapies. You can learn more about Dr. Braun and his research in kidney cancer here.