AMA Research Challenge winning posters

View posters from past winners and finalists in the AMA Research Challenge, the largest national, multi-specialty medical research conference for medical students, residents and international medical graduates. Find out how to increase your chances of being a future winner.

2024 Research Challenge winner: Ayush Kumar

Ayush Kumar is a third-year medical student from the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. His research involved enhancing the radiosensitivity of triple-negative breast cancer. 

What was the winning research?

Kumar’s research—"Enhancing the radiosensitivity of triple-negative breast cancer by targeting VEGF/Neuropilin-2” (PDF, members only)—beat out a field of more than 1,300 abstract submissions from medical students, resident physicians and fellows, and international medical graduates. Kumar’s research focused on triple-negative breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease. By identifying that blocking a certain protein with an antibody could make radiation therapies more effective—testing the findings on lab-grown cancer cells and mice with tumors—the research could ultimately lead to a new way to treat triple-negative breast cancer.