PhD candidates at Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences frequently receive extramural and intramural awards for their doctoral research.

Extramural Award Recipients

Our PhD candidates are recipients of awards from the following extramural organizations.

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows

Loren Collado
Michael Cross
Hyunsoo Chung
Joseph Daccache
Nicole Eskow
Hannah Gattuso
Elizabeth Gorodetsky
Christina Higgins
Brooke Holey
Madeline Kowalski
Ashley Lewis
Sophie Li
Andrew Mao
Martyna Okuniewska
Joseph Saglimbeni
Aaron Schwartz
Yu-Chi Sun
Anthony Tao
Jonathan Thomas
Katie Ventre
Grant Zempolich

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Sanne Casello
Mia Charifson
Habon Issa (honorable mention)
Patrick O’Neill
Joseph Sudar

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship

Tania Gonzalez Robles
Kody Mansfield

American Heart Association

Cristobal Rivera

Canada Institute of Health Research–Doctoral Research Award

Miriam Gofine

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Chloe Bair-Marshall

2025 Special MacCracken Awards

Haleigh Cavalier
Michael Cross
Emily Dembinski
Samantha Doonan
Nicole Hall
Triantafyllia Karakousi
Samantha Nyovanie
Ayushi Patel
Jonathan Thomas
Xinyi (Emily) Zhang
Ruoxun Zi