2025 EMGS Best Student and Early Career Investigator Oral Presentation Awards

It is our pleasure to announce that the following individuals have been selected as this year's Best Student and Early Career Investigator Oral Presentation Award winners!

Best Student Oral Presentation

First Place (Tied): David Schuster for his presentation “Duplex Sequencing After Prolonged Benzo[b]fluoranthene Exposure Reveals Tissue-Specific Differences in Mutagenic Response, Chemical Potency, and Clonal Expansion of Mutations”.

First Place (Tied): Abigayle Vito for her presentation “Structural Basis of DNA Damage Recognition by DNA Polymerase Lambda in Chromatin”.

Second Place: Foster Jacobs for his presentation “Harnessing the Power of DNA Adductomics to Study DNA Mutations”.

Best Early Career Investigator Oral Presentation

First Place: Elijah Newcomb for his presentation “Recognition of DNA Repair Intermediates by a Novel Helicase Links BER to Immune Modulation”.

Second Place: Lindsay Volk for her presentation “Youth Dictates Susceptibility to DNA Damage-Induced Genotoxicity, Mutagenesis, and Tumorigenesis from N-Nitrosamine Exposure in Mice”.

We thank all of our outstanding participants in this year's competition, as well as our volunteer judges and members of the Education, Student and New Investigator Affairs Committee whose contributions to support the recognition of our outstanding student and early career investigator presentations are deeply appreciated. Thank you and congratulations to our winners.