2008 Resident Prize Essay Winners

Program and Abstracts
Resident Prize Information

Clinical Investigation

• 1st Prize
  Tumor Volume is a Predictor of Biochemical Recurrence in Patients With Positive Surgical Margins Following Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy: A Case for Immediate Adjuvant Therapy?
  Matthew Resnick
  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
   
• 2nd Prize
  Competing Causes of Death in Patients with Kidney Cancer
  David Kaplan
  Fox Chase Cancer Center
   
• 3rd Prize
  Prostate Volume Changes Over Time: Results from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
  Stacy Loeb
  Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
   

Basic Science

• 1st Prize
  Defects in Muscarinic Receptor Cell Signaling in a Bladder Urothelial Cancer Cell Line
  Brian Tully
  University of Maryland, School of Medicine
   
• 2nd Prize
  IL18 Binding Protein Is Produced By Prostate Cancer Cells And Its Levels In Urine And Serum Correlate With Tumor Status.
  Kazutoshi Fujita
  Johns Hopkins University
   
• 3rd Prize
  Immunotherapy Of Superficial Bladder Carcinoma With Intravesical Chitosan/il-12 Is Superior To Bcg Treatment In A Mouse Bladder Cancer Model
  Compton Bejamin
  National Institutes of Health