The Benjamin Castleman Award is granted for an outstanding paper in the field of human pathology published in English. Selections made by the Benjamin Castleman Award Committee will be based on the merit of the submitted paper, not on the entire career of the author. Please do not include additional supporting papers. Any optional information or letters from sponsors should be focused on the paper, not on the author’s qualifications. The 2023 award will be based on papers published during the twelve months preceding the application deadline. The subject may represent any topic in pathology, but must be directly relevant to human disease. On papers with multiple authors, only one author is eligible, and only one paper per author may be submitted.
The awardee must be a pathologist or a pathology resident or fellow who has not yet reached their 40th birthday at the time the paper is published. Papers by pathology trainees are encouraged. The prize will consist of a check for $1,500 and a certificate. Funds for travel are not included and the awardee does not have to be present at the Annual Meeting.
Antonio Rodriguez-Calero, MD
2023 Benjamin Castleman Award
Antonio Rodriguez-Calero started his medical studies at the Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, España that continued at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He then began his residency in Anatomical and Clinical Pathology at the Cantonal Hospital Münsterlingen, Switzerland and completed his residency in 2022 at the Institute for Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland. Since 2019, he has been a Research Fellow at the lab of Prof. Mark A. Rubin, Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Switzerland. Currently, Antonio is a staff pathologist at the Institute for Tissue Medicine and Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland, where he leads the areas of Uropathology and Nephropathology. At present, he is also enrolled in a molecular pathology fellowship at the same institute.
During his residency, Antonio worked under the mentorship of Prof. Rubin in the development of a Swiss-wide network for tissue collection of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. He led a project on Prostate Cancer Brain Metastases and its molecular definition, which included histopathology, whole exome, transcriptomics, epigenetics, and next-generation sequencing analyses. His current goal focuses on further molecular characterization and application of AI pathology in metastatic prostate cancer. Further, he is involved in national and international collaborations on uropathology with focus on prostate cancer, namely with the University Hospital Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland and the Abate-Shen Lab, Columbia University, New York, among others.
To date, he has published seven peer-reviewed articles (two of which were as first author), received the Poster prize of the German Society of Pathology (2020), and the prestigious Young Investigator Award of the Prostate Cancer Foundation (2020).
Previous Award Recipients
2022 | Nicolas A. Giraldo |
2021 | Christian M. Schürch |
2020 | Jonathan C. Dudley |
2019 | Sanjay S. Patel |
2018 | Nicholas P. Reder |
2017 | Carlos A. Murga-Zamalloa |
2016 | Benjamin H. Durham |
2015 | Mark J. Kiel |
2014 | Valentina Nardi |
2013 | Abner Louissant |
2012 | Daniel Winer |
2011 | Anthony Gill/ Jiaqi Shi |
2010 | Adeboye Osunkoya |
2009 | Kirsten D. Mertz |
2008 | Laurence de Level |
2007 | Adebowale Joel Adeniran |
2006 | Arul M. Chinnaiyan |
2005 | Andrew P. Weng |
2004 | Anirban Maitra |
2003 | Jerome T. O’Connell |
2002 | David G. Huntsman |
2001 | Todd Kroll |
2000 | Daniel J. Brat |
1999 | Irina Lubensky |
1998 | Jeffrey K. Taubenberger |
1997 | Sarah S. Frankel |
1996 | Frederic G. Barr |
1995 | Marc Ladanyi |
1994 | Cheryl Willman |
1993 | Timothy McDonnell |
1992 | Giorgio Ingrahami |
1991 | Peter Humphrey |
1990 | Ivan Stamenkovic |
1989 | Stephen Peiper |
1988 | John Anastasi |
1987 | James Kurnick |
1986 | Lawrence Weiss |
1985 | Ann Thor |
1984 | George Murphy |
1983 | Renatao Iozzo |
1982 | William Beschorner |
1981 | Roger Warnke |