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
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

2024 Special MacCracken Awards

Argha Bandyopadhyay
Ryla Cantergiani
Molly Cohn
Ines Delclaux
Abigail Korenek
Amy Kwan
Elizabeth Li
Chen Liang
Deborah Liberman
Victoria Godinez Lopez
Julie Manikas
Kacie McCarty
Damee Moon 
Tenny Mudianto
Sandhya Rajkumar
Erica Sadler
Maggie Schepleng
Adam Silhavy
Sabrina Solis
Rachel Jun Rou Tan
Jonathan Thomas
Alan Varghese
Natalie Williams
Eli Winkler
Ethan Zhu 

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)