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2021 Awardees

Year Recipient Institution Sort Name Sort Year
2021 Evelien M. Bunnik, Ph.D. Univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., San Antonio Bunnik 2021-44
2021 Philip B. Busbee, Ph.D. Univ. of South Carolina Busbee 2021-43
2021 Sandra Cascio, Ph.D. Univ. of Pittsburgh Cascio 2021-42
2021 Ritu Chakravarti, Ph.D. Univ. of Toledo Chakravarti 2021-41
2021 Jeffrey B. Cheng, M.D., Ph.D. Univ. of California, San Francisco Cheng 2021-40
2021 Sarah E. Clark, Ph.D. Univ. of Colorado Sch. of Med. Clark 2021-39
2021 Thomas J. Connors, M.D. Columbia Univ. Med. Ctr. Connors 2021-38
2021 Carla M. Cuda, Ph.D. Northwestern Univ. Cuda 2021-37
2021 Rupali Das, Ph.D. Michigan State Univ. Das 2021-36
2021 Louise M. D'Cruz, Ph.D. Univ. of Pittsburgh D'Cruz 2021-35
2021 Zichao Fan, Ph.D. UConn Hlth. Fan 2021-34
2021 Jennifer T. Grier, Ph.D. Univ. of South Carolina, Greenville Sch. of Med. Grier 2021-33
2021 Silvia Guglietta, Ph.D. Medical Univ. of South Carolina Guglietta 2021-32
2021 Claire E. Gustafson, Ph.D. Stanford Univ. Gustafson 2021-31
2021 Yashoda M. Hosakote, Ph.D. Univ. of Texas Med. Br., Galveston Hosakote 2021-30
2021 Ruksana Huda, Ph.D. Univ. of Texas Med. Br., Galveston Huda 2021-29
2021 Parisa Kalantari, Ph.D. Tufts Univ. Sch. of Med. Kalantari 2021-28
2021 Mobin Karimi, M.D., Ph.D. SUNY Upstate Karimi 2021-27
2021 Kempaiah Ravayara Kempaiah, Ph.D. Univ. of Texas Med. Br., Galveston Kempaiah 2021-26
2021 Antonios Kolios, M.D. Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr. Kolios 2021-25
2021 Ping-Chang Kuo, Ph.D. Indiana Univ. Sch. of Med. Kuo 2021-24
2021 Jianmei Leavenworth, M.D., Ph.D. Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham Leavenworth 2021-23
2021 Caroline Leeth, D.V.M., Ph.D. Virginia Tech Leeth 2021-22
2021 Yuejin Liang, Ph.D. Univ. of Texas Med. Br., Galveston Liang 2021-21
2021 Namal Liyanage, Ph.D. The Ohio State Univ. Liyanage 2021-20
2021 Maria Serena Longhi, M.D., Ph.D. Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr. Longhi 2021-19
2021 Charitha Madiraju, Ph.D. Marshall B. Ketchum Univ. Madiraju 2021-18
2021 Lauren M. F. Merlo, Ph.D. Lankenau Inst. for Med. Res. Merlo 2021-17
2021 Justin Milner, Ph.D. Univ. of North Carolina Milner 2021-16
2021 Som G. Nanjappa, D.V.M., Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois Nanjappa 2021-15
2021 Ruth J. Napier, Ph.D. Oregon Health & Science Univ. Napier 2021-14
2021 Michael M. Opata, Ph.D. Appalachian State Univ. Opata 2021-13
2021 Manoj K. Pandey, Ph.D. Cincinnati Children's Hosp. Med. Ctr. Pandey 2021-12
2021 Peter D. Pioli, Ph.D. Western Michigan Univ. Homer Stryker MD Sch. of Med. Pioli 2021-11
2021 Xiaoquan Rao, M.D., Ph.D. Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. Rao 2021-10
2021 Lisa M. Shollenberger, Ph.D. Old Dominion Univ. Shollenberger 2021-09
2021 Myoungsun Son, Ph.D. The Feinstein Inst. for Med. Res. Son 2021-08
2021 Hariharan Subramanian, Ph.D. Michigan State Univ. Subramanian 2021-07
2021 Tuoqi Wu, Ph.D. Univ. of Colorado Sch. of Med. Wu 2021-06
2021 Jintao Xu, Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan Xu 2021-05
2021 De Hong Yan, Ph.D. SIAT, Chinese Acad. of Sci. Yan 2021-04
2021 I-Chen Ivorine Yu, Ph.D. Indiana Univ. Yu 2021-03
2021 Jun Zhang, Ph.D. Univ. of California, Davis Zhang 2021-02
2021 Xu Zhou, Ph.D. Boston Children’s Hosp. Zhou 2021-01

2020 Awardees

Year ▼RecipientInstitution
2020Byron Au-Yeung, Ph.D.Emory Univ. Sch. of Med.
2020Rocky L. Baker, Pharm.D.Univ. of Colorado Sch. of Med.
2020Jennifer L. Barnas, M.D., Ph.D.Univ. of Rochester Med. Ctr.
2020Victoria K. Baxter, D.V.M., Ph.D.Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2020Sidi A. Bencherif, Ph.D.Northeastern Univ.
2020Lalit K. Beura, Ph.D.Brown Univ.
2020Mulugu V. Brahmajothi, Ph.D.Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.
2020Shannon K. Bromley, Ph.D.Massachusetts General Hosp.
2020Philip B. Busbee, Ph.D.Univ. of South Carolina Sch. of Med.
2020Eliseo F. Castillo, Ph.D.Univ. of New Mexico Sch. of Med.
2020Ritu Chakravarti, Ph.D.Univ. of Toledo Col. of Med. and Life Sci.
2020Saurabh Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.Univ. of Toledo Col. of Med. and Life Sci.
2020Jian Chen, M.D., Ph.D.Univ. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr.
2020Jing Chen, Ph.D.Thomas Jefferson Univ.
2020Thomas Connors, M.D.Columbia Univ. Med. Ctr.
2020Carla M. Cuda, Ph.D.Northwestern Univ.
2020Hongsheng Dai, Ph.D.Southern Med. Univ., China
2020Sabyasachi Das, Ph.D.Emory Univ. Sch. of Med.
2020Meihong Deng, M.D. Univ. of Pittsburgh
2020Siyuan Ding, Ph.D.Washington Univ., St. Louis
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2019 Awardees

Year ▼RecipientInstitution
2019Michael C. Abt, Ph.D.Perelman Sch. of Med., Univ. of Pennsylvania
2019Irving C. Allen, Ph.D.Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ.
2019Emmanuel Amadi, M.S.Enugu State Univ. of Sci. and Technol., Nigeria
2019Nadia Anikeeva, Ph.D.Thomas Jefferson Univ.
2019Ephraim Ansa-Addo, Ph.D.Hollings Cancer Ctr., Med. Univ. of South Carolina
2019Tatiana Barichello, Pharm.D., Ph.D.Univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., Houston
2019Anna E. Beaudin, Ph.D.Univ. of California, Merced
2019Ramireddy Bommireddy, Ph.D.Emory Univ.
2019Tullia Bruno, Ph.D.Univ. of Pittsburgh
2019Sandra Cascio, Ph.D.Univ. of Pittsburgh
2019Ritu Chakravarti, Ph.D.Univ. of Toledo
2019Ramakrishna Chandran, Ph.D.City of Hope Beckman Res. Inst.
2019Rudragouda Channappanavar, D.V.M., Ph.D.Univ. of Tennessee Hlth. Sci. Ctr.
2019Svetlana P. Chapoval, M.D., Ph.D.Univ. of Maryland Sch. of Med.
2019Saurabh Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.Univ. of Toledo Col. of Med.
2019KuanHui Chen, Ph.D.Univ. of California, Riverside
2019Wai Po Chong, Ph.D.Zhongshan Ophthalmic Ctr., Sun Yat-sen Univ., China
2019Huai-Chia Chuang, Ph.D.Natl. Hlth. Res. Inst., Taiwan
2019Rujuan Dai, Ph.D.Virginia-Maryland Col. of Vet. Med., Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ.
2019Brian Daniels, Ph.D.Rutgers Univ.
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2018 Awardees

Year ▼RecipientInstitution
2018Irving C. Allen, Ph.D.Virginia-Maryland Regional Col. of Vet. Med.
2018Nadia Anikeeva, Ph.D.Thomas Jefferson Univ.
2018Tatiana Barichello, Pharm.D., Ph.D.Univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., Houston
2018Sergejs Berdnikovs, Ph.D.Feinberg Sch. of Med., Northwestern Univ.
2018Semir Beyaz, Ph.D.Cold Spring Harbor Lab.
2018Ramireddy Bommireddy, Ph.D.Emory Univ. Sch. of Med.
2018Mulugu V. Brahmajothi, Ph.D.Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.
2018Sandra Cascio, Ph.D.Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med.
2018Louis-Marie Charbonnier, Ph.D.Boston Children's Hosp.
2018Rujuan Dai, Ph.D.Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ.
2018Rupali Das, Ph.D.Michigan State Univ.
2018Sabyasachi Das, Ph.D.Emory Univ. Sch. of Med.
2018Meihong Deng, M.D.Univ. of Pittsburgh
2018Zhongbin Deng, Ph.D.Univ. of Louisville
2018Chuanlin Ding, Ph.D.Univ. of Louisville
2018Margarita Dominguez-Villar, Ph.D.Yale Sch. of Med.
2018Michel DuPage, Ph.D.Univ. of California, Berkeley
2018Ahmet Eken, Ph.D.Erciyes Univ., Turkey
2018Shokrollah Elahi, M.D., Ph.D.Univ. of Alberta, Canada
2018Ann-Marie Fairhurst, Ph.D.Agency for Sci., Technol. and Res. (A*STAR), Singapore
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2017 Awardees

Year ▼RecipientInstitution
2017Mridu Acharya, Ph.D.Benaroya Res. Inst.
2017Irving C. Allen, Ph.D.Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ.
2017Nadia Anikeeva, Ph.D.Thomas Jefferson Univ.
2017Amit Awasthi, Ph.D.Translational Hlth. Sci. and Technol. Inst.
2017Tatiana Barichello, Pharm.D., Ph.D.Univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., Houston
2017Partha Biswas, Ph.D.Univ. of Pittsburgh
2017Ramireddy Bommireddy, Ph.D.Emory Univ. Sch. of Med.
2017Craig M. Brackett, Ph.D.Roswell Park Cancer Inst.
2017Tullia Bruno, Ph.D.Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med.
2017Brian Campfield, M.D.Univ. of Pittsburgh Sch. of Med.
2017Christian Capitini, M.D.Univ. of Wisconsin Sch. of Med. and Public Hlth.
2017Caglar Cekic, Ph.D.Bilkent Univ.
2017Svetlana P. Chapoval, M.D., Ph.D.Univ. of Maryland Sch. of Med.
2017Saurabh Chattopadhyay, Ph.D.Univ. of Toledo Col. of Med.
2017Guoyun Chen, Ph.D.Univ. of Tennessee Hlth. Sci. Ctr.
2017Magdia De Jesus, Ph.D. Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York
2017Meihong Deng, M.D.Univ. of Pittsburgh
2017Zhongbin Deng, Ph.D.Univ. of Louisville
2017Ahmet Eken, Ph.D.Erciyes Univ.
2017Wenxian Fu, Ph.D.Univ. of California, San Diego
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2016 Awardees

Year ▼RecipientPositionInstitution
2016Irving C. Allen, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorVirginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ.
2016Nadia Anikeeva, Ph.D.Research InstructorThomas Jefferson Univ.
2016Amit Awasthi, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorTranslational Hlth. Sci. and Technol. Inst.
2016Tatiana Barichello, Pharm.D., Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniv. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., Houston
2016Robert A. Barrington, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniv. of South Alabama
2016Mariana Bernui, Ph.D.Research InstructorDrexel Univ. Col. of Med.
2016Partha Biswas, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniv. of Pittsburgh
2016Mark P. Boldin, M.D., Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorBeckman Res. Inst., City of Hope
2016Greg Brennan, D.V.M., Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorWestern Univ. of Hlth. Sci.
2016Noah Butler, Ph.D.Assistant Professor Univ. of Oklahoma Hlth. Sci. Ctr.
2016Susan Carpenter, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniv. of California, Santa Cruz
2016William F. Carson, IV, Ph.D.Research Assistant ProfessorUniv. of Michigan Med. Sch.
2016Ramakrishna Chandran, Ph.D.Assistant Research ProfessorBeckman Res. Inst., City of Hope
2016Kaushik Choudhuri, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniv. of Michigan Med. Sch.
2016Weiguo Cui, Ph.D.Associate InvestigatorBloodCtr. of Wisconsin
2016Zhongbin Deng, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniv. of Louisville
2016Chuanlin Ding, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniv. of Louisville
2016Jeong-Su Do, Ph.D.Project StaffLerner Res. Inst.
2016Lauren Ehrlich, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorUniv. of Texas, Austin
2016Rachel Friedman, Ph.D.Assistant Professor Natl. Jewish Hlth.
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2015 Awardees

Year ▼RecipientPositionInstitution
2015Irving C. Allen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ.
2015Pornpimon Angkasekwinai, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Thammasat Univ.
2015Nadia Anikeeva, Ph.D. Research Instructor Thomas Jefferson Univ.
2015Tatiana Barichello, Pharm.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Univ. of Texas Hlth. Sci. Ctr., Houston
2015Robert A. Barrington, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Univ. of South Alabama
2015Eileen M. Bauer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Univ. of Pittsburgh
2015Sergejs Berdnikovs, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor Northwestern Univ.
2015Maria Bettini, Ph.D. Assistant ProfessorBaylor Col. of Med.
2015Matthew L. Bettini, Ph.D. Assistant ProfessorBaylor Col. of Med.
2015Geoffrey Camirand, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor Univ. of Pittsburgh
2015Xuefang Cao, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Roswell Park Cancer Inst.
2015Ramakrishna Chandran, Ph.D. Assistant Research Professor Beckman Res. Inst., City of Hope
2015Michael A. Curran, Ph.D. Assistant Professor MD Anderson Cancer Ctr.
2015Rujuan Dai, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. 
2015Guillaume Darrasse-Jeze, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Univ. of Paris Descartes
2015Gudrun Debes, D.V.M. Assistant Professor Univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of Vet. Med.
2015Zhongbin Deng, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Univ. of Louisville
2015Chuanlin Ding, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Univ. of Louisville
2015Lauren Ehrlich, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Univ. of Texas, Austin
2015Keke C. Fairfax, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Purdue Univ.
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