In 2018, IKCC established The Cecile and Ken Youner IKCC Scholarship, an annual student scholarship to honour the IKCC Emeritus Founding Member, Dr Ken Youner. Its goal is to engage with medical students in the hope they will peruse a career in the field of kidney cancer and become leaders in the community.
We are pleased to announce this year’s scholarship has been awarded to Dr Hatice Bölek of Turkiye. As part of the scholarship, Dr Bölek will present her work at the 2025 IKCC Global Kidney Cancer Summit in Madrid, Spain.
Dr Bölek is an internal medicine specialist and medical oncology fellow, having earned her medical degree from Hacettepe University in 2015 and completed her internal medicine residency at the same institution in 2020. Following two years of consulting as an internal medicine specialist, Dr Bölek commenced her medical oncology fellowship at the Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in September 2022. In 2024, she was honoured with the International Development and Education Award (IDEA) by Conquer Cancer, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Her primary research interests in genitourinary cancer include biomarkers, prognostic factors and patient-reported outcomes. She will present her current research: Enhancing Quality of Life and Symptom Management in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Through a Web-Based eHealth Application.
Congratulations Dr Bölek!