Research Award

Two Research Awards are offered by the Papanicolaou Society for Cytopathology to pathologists-in-training for abstracts presented at the Annual Meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.

The abstracts are evaluated for the novelty of the idea presented and the scientific and/or practical value of the topic. Winners are selected by members of the Research Committee.

The awards are presented at the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology Companion Meeting of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology.

To Qualify for the Award:

  1. Abstracts must be based on cytology material
  2. Abstracts must be accepted for platform or poster presentation at the USCAP annual meeting for corresponding year.
  3. The potential awardee must be a pathologist-in-training who played a major role in the development of the study and is listed as the first author of the paper.
  4. An application must be received by the PSC Research Award Committee by the deadline.

2025 Recipients

First Place
Luisa Ricaurte Archila, M.D. 


Abstract ID:1932
Development of a Novel Cell line Based Tissue Microarray for Expedited Validation of Immunohistochemistry of Formalin Fixed and Alcohol Fixed Cell Blocks


Second Place
Min Dai, M.D., Ph.D.


Abstract ID: 2487
Unraveling the Nexus: Tumor Mutational Burden, PD-L1 Expression and Oncogene Specific Alterations in Cytology Specimens of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer