Student Awards & Honors
Sam Kleeman (鈥�25) was awarded an ASCI / Emerging-Generation Award, 2026 from The American Society for Clinical Investigation. The Emerging Generation Awards (E-Gen Awards) recognize post-MD, pre-faculty appointment physician-scientists who are meaningfully engaged in immersive research.
Yaman Thapa听received an American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowship.
Alberto Corona (鈥�22) received the 2026 Friedman Brain Institute Postdoctoral Innovator Award.
Luc铆a Tell茅z Per茅z was awarded a prize for Best Short Talk at the Mammary Gland Biology Gordon Research Conference, held in Lucca, Italy.
Nemanja Kutlesic and Kristina Shaw were awarded predoctoral fellowships from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds.
Arkarup Banerjee (鈥�16) was named a 2025 McKnight Scholar.
Monica Dus (鈥�08) received a Navy Superior Civilian Service Award and was named a member of the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine鈥檚 New Voices
Emma Courtney听received a Public Engagement Training Content award from Research!America.
Amritha Varshini Hanasoge Somasundara (鈥�23) was named an ASAPbio Fellow.
Stephen Staklinski was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Jacqueline Giovanniello (鈥�19) was awarded an LRP (Loan Repayment Award) from the National Institutes of Health.
Shushan Toneyan (鈥�24) was awarded the 2024 International Birnstiel Award for Doctoral Research in Molecular Life Sciences.
Yash Vinaykumar听Mundewadi, received a prize for the best Master鈥檚 thesis in his major. The thesis was from his university in India and was done in collaboration听with Peter Koo from CSHL
Sam Kleeman was awarded a fellowship from the Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation.
Christopher Harvey was the winner of a 2024 Troland Research Award for his pioneering work on neural circuits.
Justus Kebschull received a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship to support his neuroscience research.
Emma Courtney听was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Jacqueline Giovanniello won the UCLA Brain Research Institute Scheibel distinguished postdoc award. She was also named a 2023 Early Career Policy Ambassador by the Society for Neuroscience.
Elvin Wagenblast received a 2023鈥疍amon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award for early-career scientists.
Patrick Cunniff was awarded an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Fellowship.
Nicole Sivetz was awarded an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Fellowship.
Justus Kebschull received a Pershing Square Foundation鈥檚 Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Prize.
Luc铆a T茅llez P茅rez was awarded a fellowship from the la Caixa Foundation.
Alberto Corona was named a 2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program Recipient.
Arkarup Banerjee received a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship for Neuroscience.
Monica Dus was selected for the Guggenheim Fellowship and won the Ajinomoto Award for Gustation.
Kristen Delevich was awarded the Dean鈥檚 outstanding junior faculty research award by the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University.
Niraj Tolia was named a Fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (FASTMH).
Monica Dus (鈥�08) received the International Society for Neurogenetics Early Career Award.
Jacqueline Giovanniello was awarded a Ruth Kirschstein NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Emily Isko was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Joaqunia Delas Vives was named a 2022 Leading Edge Fellow.
Arkrup Banerjee was named a 2022 Searle Scholar.
Alexa Pagliaro was awarded an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Fellowship.
Bruno Gegenhuber鈥檚 Birnsteil Award nomination was highlighted honourable mention by the Max Birnstiel Foundation and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology.
Justus Kebschull received a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship for Neuroscience and was named a 2022 Packard Foundation Fellow.
Claudio Scuoppo (鈥�11) was awarded a Research Restart Award by The American Society of Hematology.
Sessen Daniel Iohannes was awarded a P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship.
Luc铆a Tell茅z Per茅z was awarded a Fullbright Fellowship.
Alexandra Nowlan was awarded a Trainee Professional Development Award from the Society for Neuroscience.
Bruno Gegenhuber was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Fellowship (F31) from the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health.
Danielle Ciren was awarded a Graduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
| 2019 | Lyndsey Aguirre was awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.Diogo Maia e Silva was awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds.
Kristen Delevich received an NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Foundation. Nilgun Tasdemir received an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. Melanie Eckersley-Maslin was awarded a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Discovery Research Fellowship. |
| 2018 | Christopher Harvey (鈥�08) received a Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience.
Stephane Castel (鈥�14) received an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. Jutus Kebschull was named the 2018 Larry Katz Memorial Lecturer, Neuronal Circuits meeting, CSHL. Kathryn O鈥橬eill and Jonathan Werner were awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Laura Maiorino was awarded a JSMF Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Understanding Dynamic and Multi-scale Systems. |
| 2017 | Michelle Cilia was among the 102 scientists and researchers who received the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).Benjamin Berube and David Johnson were awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
Arkarup Bandyopadhyay was named a 2017 Simons Society of Fellows, Junior Fellow. Monica Dus received a 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience. |
| 2016 | Elvin Wagenblast (鈥�15) received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program. The award supports his research, 鈥淎 cellular and molecular framework to understand human pre-leukemic mutations in AML鈥�, in the lab of John Dick in Toronto.
Giorgia Battistoni was selected as a finalist for the 2016 Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation in a Graduate Student. Oliver Fregoso (鈥�10) became Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics at UCLA鈥檚 College of Life Sciences and the David Geffen School of Medicine. Ian Peikon (鈥�15) was named one of Forbes magazine鈥檚 鈥�30 Under 30鈥� in science for his graduate work on the connectome. Hiroki Asari (鈥�08) was appointed a Research Group Leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) at Monterotondo, Italy. Jue Xiang Wang was awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. Monica Dus received a Rita Allen Foundation Award and the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship for Neuroscience. She was also nominated for the Golden Apple teaching award at the University of Michigan. Monica was also awarded the NIH Director鈥檚 New Innovator Award. Kaja Wasik was selected as a program participant at Entrepreneurship Lab (ELabNYC) Bio & Health Tech. Annabel Romero Hernandez had one of her drawings selected by The Scientist magazine as their 鈥淚mage of the Day鈥�. Nilgun Tasdemir received a Breakthrough Fellowship Award from the Department of Defense. |
| 2015 | Katie McJunkin (鈥�10) received an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award. She is currently working with Victor Ambros at the UMass Medical Center.Elizabeth Bartom (n茅e Thomas, 鈥�04) was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at Northwestern University.
Giorgia Battistoni, Laura Maiorino and Georgi Yordanov were awarded Ph.D. fellowships from Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds to support their thesis research. Dan Chitwood (鈥�09) received the prestigious 2015 Early Career Award from the American Society for Plant Biologists. Dan was recognized for his outstanding, creative contributions to understanding plant development. Chris Harvey (鈥�08) was awarded an R01 Research Project Award from the NIH to support the research in his lab at Harvard. His group studies sensorimotor processing during spatial navigation. Fran莽ois Bolduc (鈥�08) was promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Associate Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Alberta, Canada. Niraj Tolia (鈥�04) was promoted to Associate Professor in the Departments of Molecular Microbiology & Microbial Pathogenesis and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Zinaida Perova (鈥�14) received a Marie Curie Fellowship to support her postdoctoral research at the LMB in Cambridge. Amy Leung (鈥�10) was awarded an K01Research Scientist Development Award from the NIH to support her work at the Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope. She is studying the role of long non-coding RNAs in diabetes. Ian Peikon (鈥�15) was honored with the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award for 2015 for his thesis work on the 鈥渃onnectome鈥�. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the biosciences. Ray Ho received a Cutting-Edge Talent and Training Scholarship from the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. Robert Aboukhalil was accepted into the Insight Data Science Fellows Program. Jeremy Wilusz received a Rita Allen Foundation Award. Monica Dus received the NARSAD Brain & Behavior Foundation award. |
| 2014 | Devinn Lambert was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.Elizabeth Murchison(鈥�07) was honored with a 2014 Philip Leverhulme Prize in the field of Biological Sciences to recognize her work on transmissible cancers in Tazmanian devils and dogs.
Onyekachi Odoemene was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Fellowship from the NIH/National Eye Institute. Niraj Tolia (鈥�04) became an Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease as part of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The award recognizes Niraj鈥榮 work on themolecular basis for and inhibition of red blood cell invasion by Plasmodium parasites. Michelle Cilia (鈥�04) received the Herbert L. Rothbart ARS Early Career Scientist of the Year Award from the USDA. Michelle was also a recipient of the 2014 Schroth Faces of the Future Award for her virology research. Shraddha Pai (鈥�10) was awarded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. Monica Dus (鈥�08) was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Molcular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan. Ira Hall (鈥�04) was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. Ira was also appointed Associate Professor at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis) and Associate Director of The Genome Institute. Yaniv Erlich (鈥�10) was appointed to the faculty of the New York Genome Center and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. |
| 2013 | Brittany Cazakoff was awarded the 2012 Golden Key Graduate Scholar Award and a Graduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).Yaniv Erlich(鈥�10) was awarded a Career Awards at the Scientific Interface grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
Wei Wei(鈥�08) received a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship to support her neuroscience research. Joaquina Delas Vives, Anja HohmannandJustus Kebschull were awarded Ph.D. fellowships from Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. Ji-Joon Song (鈥�05) was promoted to Associate Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Zachary Lippman (鈥�05) was promoted to Associate Professor at CSHL. Melanie Eckersley-Maslin was awarded the poster prize at the EMBL meeting on Chromatin and Epigenetics, EMBO, Heidelberg. Monica Dus (鈥�08) received an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. |
| 2012 | Colleen Carlston was selected into the National Science Foundation鈥檚 2012 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Program.Elizabeth Murchison(鈥�07) was the recipient of the Eppendorf award for Young European Investigators and the MRC Jewellery Heirloom Award.
John Sheppard was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and received a Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship from the Department of Defense. Melanie Eckersley-Maslin was awarded a Keystone Symposium Traveling Fellowship. She was also awarded an American Society for Cell Biology travel fellowship to attend the annual conference. Hiroshi Makino(鈥�10) was awarded fellowships from the Uehara Memorial Foundation (Japan) and from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Jeremy Wilusz received an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. |
| 2011 | Christopher Harvey (鈥�08) received a Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface.Oliver Tam(鈥�10) was awarded a Long-Term Fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program.
Elizabeth Nakasone was selected to attend the AACR鈥檚 Translational Cancer Research for Basic Scientists Workshop. Maria Joaquina Delas Vives was awarded a graduate fellowship from the la Caixa Foundation. Elizabeth Murchison(鈥�08) was one of Genome Technology Magazine鈥檚 Young Investigators of the Year for 2011 for her research on 鈥淐ancer in the Wilderness鈥�. Liz also gave a lecture at the TED Global conference in Edinburgh. |
| 2010 | Christopher Harvey(鈥�08) was named the 2010 Larry Katz Memorial Lecturer for the Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Neuronal Circuits.Yaniv Erlich was awarded the prestigious Harold M. Weintraub International Award for Graduate Studies. He was also named a 2010 Genome Technology Young Investigator.
Katie Liberatore was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Jeremy Wilusz(鈥�09) received a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Postdoctoral Fellowship. Amy Rappaport was selected to present at the 5th annual 鈥淐racking the Code with the Bear鈥� Research Symposium. Elvin Wagenblast was awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. Elizabeth Nakasone was awarded a US Army Medical Researchand Materiel Command Breast Cancer Research Program Predoctoral Fellowship. Colin Malone (鈥�10) received a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship. Joseph Calarco was awarded a research grant from the Fred C. Gloeckner Foundation. Katie Liberatore was selected to attend the PepsiCo Company Day at the New York Academy of Sciences. Elena Ezhkova received an NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. |
| 2009 | Jeremy Wilusz was awarded the RNA Society Scaringe Award.
Joseph Calarco, Michael Pautler, and Stephane Castel were awarded Graduate Scholarships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Patrick Paddison (鈥�04) was named a Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. Elizabeth Murchsion(鈥�07) received a L鈥橭real UNESCO UK and Ireland Fellowship For Women In Science. Christopher Harvey(鈥�08) received a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship. Monica Dus (鈥�08) was awarded the Davis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Eating Disorders. |
| 2008 | Yaniv Erlich was awarded the IEEE-CS/ACM High Performance Computing Ph.D. Fellowship in recognition of his Alta Cyclic base-calling software.
Claudia Feierstein (鈥�07) was awarded the 脡cole des Neurosciences de Paris Postdoctoral Fellowship. Elizabeth Murchison (鈥�07) was awarded the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Overseas Biomedical Postdoctoral Fellowship. Hiroki Asari (鈥�08) was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. |
| 2007 | Colin Malone was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Elizabeth Murchison (鈥�07) was awarded the Sir Keith Murdoch Fellowship by the American Australian Association Education Fund. Patrick Paddison was awarded the James D. Watson Investigator Program Award, New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research. |
| 2006 | David Simpson was awarded a US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Breast Cancer Research Program Predoctoral Fellowship.
Rebecca Bish was awarded an American Foundation for Aging Research Fellowship. Ira Hall (鈥�04) was awarded the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences. Masafumi Muratani (鈥�05) was awarded the Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship. Elena Ezhkova (鈥�05) was awarded the Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Patrick Paddison (鈥�04) was awarded the James D. Watson Investigator Program Award, New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research. |
| 2005 | Daniel Chitwood was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Elizabeth Murchison was awarded a US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Breast Cancer Research Program Predoctoral Fellowship. Zachary Lippman was awarded the prestigious Harold M. Weintraub international Award for graduate studies and a Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship. Ji-Joon Song (鈥�05) was awarded a Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship. Amy Caudy (鈥�04) was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Lewis Sigler Fellowship at Princeton University. Elena Ezhkova (鈥�05) was awarded a Women and Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rockefeller University. |
| 2004 | Catherine Cormier was awarded a PEO Scholar鈥檚 award.
Keisha John was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship from the National Research Council of the National Academies. Patrick Paddison (鈥�04) was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship. |
| 2003 | Ira Hall鈥榮 two Science papers were awarded the 2003 Newcomb Cleveland Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Charles Kopec was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship. Catherine Cormier was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Patrick Paddison was awarded a US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Breast Cancer Research Program Predoctoral Fellowship. Amy Caudy was awarded the prestigious Harold M. Weintraub International Award for Graduate Studies. Amy becomes the first student to graduate from the School. |
| 2002 | Two publications co-authored by Ira Hall comprised part of the 鈥淏reakthrough of the Year 鈥� 2002鈥� by the journal Science. |
| 2001 | Emiliano Rial Verde and Gowan Tervo were awarded predoctoral fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. |
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| 1999 | Amy Caudy and Elizabeth Thomas were awarded predoctoral fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. |