The SAKK/Amgen Research Grant 2019 has been awarded to Dr. Silvia Angori und Prof. Peter Schraml for the project with the title “Addressing the medical need for treatment of patients with papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma (pRCC) Type 2”.

SAKK/Amgen Research Grant is funded by Amgen and aims to support projects for outstanding and novel translational cancer research. The grant is endowed with CHF 50’000.

Prof. Dr. med. Roger von Moos (Jury President and SAKK President ), Dr. med. Silvia Angori (University Hospital Zurich), Dr. Christian Merkle (Amgen Schweiz), Prof. Dr. phil. Peter Schraml (University Hospital Zurich)