Announcing winners of the 2026 DVC Young Investigators Symposium!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Young Investigators Symposium, which was held on February 27th, 2026. The event was held virtually via Zoom.

In first place was Andrew Friberg, from the University of Pennsylvania. The topic of his talk was on the simulation of dose-rate dependent mechanisms of lymphocyte damage in proton FLASH radiotherapy.

There was a tie for second place between Muskan Lather from the University of Pennsylvania and Mohamed Yousuf from Thomas Jefferson University. Muskan discussed refining photochemical dose-response modeling in single-fraction Photofrin-PDT using [ROS]X and MSOLD correlation, and Yousuf described a novel occlusion-robust multi-view markerless SGRT framework with automated semantic ROI definition, in the context of computer vision surface guidance (CV-SGRT).

Thank you to all those who submitted an abstract this year!