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.

National Cancer Institute Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00)

Douglas Biancur
Kelsey Monson

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

Dalia Barkley
Maria Benitez-Jones
Haley duBois
Hannah Gattuso
Elizabeth Gorodetsky
Kyla Hamling
Brooke Holey
Emily Jang
Juan Andres Kochen Rossi
Paige Leary
Ashley Lewis
Andrew Mao
Muhaned Mohamed
Michael Mosca
Martyna Okuniewska
Victoria Osorio Vasquez
Ravi Pancholi
Juliana Remark
Lindsey Remark
Eugene Rudensky
Joseph Saglimbeni
Ashley Sartoris
Aaron Schwartz
Anthony Tao

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Sanne Casello
Mia Charifson
Krystal Ching
Joel Encarnacion-Rosado (honorable mention)
Sabrina Giacometti
Habon Issa (honorable mention)
Rachel Kim
Paige Leary
Raquel Moya (honorable mention)
Lauren Ryan (honorable mention)
Patrick O’Neill
Joseph Sudar

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship

Joel Encarnacion-Rosado
Tania Gonzalez Robles
Naomi Lopez Caraballo
Kody Mansfield

American Heart Association

Cristobal Rivera
Mahrukh Usmani

Canada Institute of Health Research–Doctoral Research Award

Miriam Gofine

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Chloe Bair-Marshall

2023 Intramural Award Recipients

Our PhD candidates received prizes in the 2022−23 academic year from Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.

2023 NYU University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Awards

Margot Elmaleh, PhD (Science and Technology)
Emma Kurz, PhD (Science and Technology)

2023 Special MacCracken Awards

Stephen Abini-Agbomson
Paola Angulo-Salgado
Chloe Bair Marshall
Argha Bandyopadhyay
Danielle Beam
Ahmad Boukhris
Devin Bready
Josue Canales
Mia Charifson
Anna Chen
Gavyn Chern Wei Bee
Hyunsoo Chung
Grace Ciabattoni
Zoe Ciantra
Ariadna Corredera Asensio
Michael Cross
Dhaval Dixit
Nicole Eskow
Ryn Flaherty
Zoran Gajic
Sabrina Giacometti
Liana Goehring
Tori Hallisey
Teniola Idowu
Juliana Ilmain
Will Jogia
Lizabeth Katsnelson
Anne Krok
Emma Kurz
Amy Kwan
Elizabeth Li
Kimberly Lucero
Samantha Lux
Kacie McCarty
Damee Moon
Tenny Mudianto
Madu Nzerem
Fola Olusanya
Deborah Onakomaiya
Ayushi Patel
Kylie Prutisto-Chang
Sandhya Rajkumar
Ariadne Rivera Aguirre
Joaquin Rodriguez
Lauren Ryan
Ali Sahimi
Richard Sam
Gayatri Schur
Ipsita Subudhi
Stephanie Tetrick
Jonathan Thomas
NinaUzoigwe
Katherine Ventre
Richard von Itter
Kris Walsh
Hongsu Wang
Joshua Wang,
Gabby Whiten
Matthew Xin
Kim Zaldana
Hanchao Zhang
Ethan Zhu