Note: A fellowship institution affiliation other than the medical school is indicated in parentheses.

*HHMI-Ivy Medical Research Fellow; fellowship support from the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation under a joint initiative with HHMI.
**HHMI-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Medical Research Fellow; fellowship support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund under a joint initiative with HHMI.
***HHMI-Foundation Fighting Blindness Medical Research Fellow; fellowship support from the Foundation Fighting Blindness under a joint initiative with HHMI.
†This program is administered through Grants and Special Programs but is budgeted as a research operation.
‡Second year in program as an advanced scholar.
‡‡College scholarships: $7,000 for each student.

Graduate and Medical Education Programs

2010-2011 Medical Research Fellows Initial Awards: First Year of Research

Shah Ali: Stanford University School of Medicine
Allireza Alloo: Harvard Medical School
Yi An: Stanford University School of Medicine
Elisa Aquilanti*: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University; (Harvard Medical School)
Arinola Awomolo: University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford; (Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine)
Xue Bai: Duke University School of Medicine
Tatianna Bartch: University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine; (Harvard Medical School)
Samhita Bhargava: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; (University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine)
Clifton Brock: The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Ethan Brown: Weill Cornell Medical College; (University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine)
Miguel Cabarrus: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Edmond Chan: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; (Harvard Medical School)
Linda Chen*: Duke University School of Medicine; (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Evelyn Cheung: Harvard Medical School
Sheena Chew: Harvard Medical School
Alan Chu: University of Michigan Medical School
Kerry Colby: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Karen Condon: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Kathleen Cook: New York University School of Medicine; (Rockefeller University)
Margaret Cooke: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Avraham Cooper: Harvard Medical School
Michael Coulter: Harvard Medical School
Leah Couture: University of Maryland School of Medicine
Ilka Decker: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Nicholas Dewyer: University of Michigan Medical School
Daniel Duncan: Yale School of Medicine
Heng Duong: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Ashraf El Naga: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Annie Fang: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Deepa Galaiya: Stanford University School of Medicine
Erin Gillespie: University of Michigan Medical School
Adam Gomez: Baylor College of Medicine
Adele Goodloe: Mayo Medical School
Nicole Joy: Duke University School of Medicine
Kimberly Kanada: University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Gurvinder Kaur*: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Kathryn Kemere: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine; (University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine)

Anna Krawisz: Stanford University School of Medicine
Jared Kushner: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Hanhan Li: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
David Lin: Harvard Medical School
James Liu: New York University School of Medicine
Benjamin Lok: New York University School of Medicine; (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Benjamin Macadangdang: Duke University School of Medicine; (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)
Nina Mann: Harvard Medical School
Christine McMahon: Duke University School of Medicine; (Harvard Medical School)
Melanie McNally: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Keshav Menon: Indiana University School of Medicine
Camilo Molina: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Laura Navarro: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Connor O'Brien: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Philip Pauerstein: Stanford University School of Medicine
Courtney Pendleton*: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Edward Pham: Stanford University School of Medicine
Kris Prado: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Giulio Quarta: New York University School of Medicine
Ori Rackovsky: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Lara Rosenbaum: Yale School of Medicine
Stephen Rosenberg: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Edward Ruane: Duke University School of Medicine
Jill Schappa**: University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine
Alison Schram: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
Ryan Schubert: Stanford University School of Medicine
Stephen Seedial: Weill Cornell Medical College; (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health)
Bryan Sisk: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Sarah Sunshine***: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mamie Thant: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Vanja Varenika: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Meghan Vermillion**: University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine
David Voce*: The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Chenwei Wu: Duke University School of Medicine
Albert Yeh: Harvard Medical School
Neeha Zaidi: Mount Sinai School of Medicine; (Rockefeller University)
Xiaolong Zhou: Duke University School of Medicine; (Harvard Medical School)

Continued Awards: Second Year of Research

Matthew Kole: Baylor College of Medicine
Michael Paolini: Baylor College of Medicine

Zain Rizvi: Wayne State University School of Medicine; (University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center)

HHMI-NIH Research Scholars†

Isaac Abecassis: Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine
Adedamola Adepoju‡: University of Massachusetts Medical School
Leonardo Aliaga: The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Aaron Besterman: New York Medical College
Swaroop Bommareddi: University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
Chad Burk: Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
Bharat Burman: Tufts University School of Medicine
Elise Cheng: The School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center
Donelle Cummings: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Matthew Dallos: Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine
Chandan Das: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Maxime Debrosse‡: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Jake Decker: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Matthew Desmond: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Michael Erkkinen: Dartmouth Medical School
Daniel Faden: Boston University School of Medicine
Farhoud Faraji: Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Rashidah Green: Howard University College of Medicine
Rachael Grodick: The School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center
Tracy Hadnott: Duke University School of Medicine
Aditya Halthore: Dartmouth Medical School
Jacqueline Herold: Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Amanda Herzog: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Stephanie Histed: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Maanasa Indaram: Duke University School of Medicine
Rajiv Iyer: New York University School of Medicine
Grace Kim: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Daniel King‡: Wayne State University School of Medicine
Wei-Chu Lai: New York University School of Medicine
Cecilia Larocca: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Philip Lim: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School
Fan Liu: University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Andrew McClary: Tulane University School of Medicine
Raymond Mirasol‡: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Amirali Modir Shanechi: Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Christopher Morrison: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Samuel Myerowitz-Vanderhoek: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Quang Nguyen: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Toral Parikh: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Ralph Peace: North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Sonya Purushothaman: Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
Sneha Ramakrishna: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Aliye Runyan: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Philip Schmalz: Tulane University School of Medicine
Angela Shih: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Carol Yan: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

James H. Gilliam Jr. Fellowships for Advanced Study

Flavian D. Brown: Harvard University
Mariam El-Ashmawy: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Rachel A. Johnston: University of California, Los Angeles

Silvia N. Kariuki: University of Chicago
Lisandro Maya-Ramos: University of California, San Francisco

Med into Grad Initiative (Four-year grants)

Baylor College of Medicine: $700,000
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University: $700,000
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: $700,000
Cornell University: $700,000
Emory University: $700,000
Harvard Medical School: $600,000
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $700,000
The Ohio State University College of Medicine: $700,000
Rice University: $700,000
Tufts University School of Medicine: $700,000
The University of Alabama at Birmingham: $700,000
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine: $700,000

University of California, San Diego, Medical Center: $700,000
University of California, San Francisco: $700,000
University of Chicago: $700,000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine: $700,000
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: $700,000
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry: $700,000
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas: $700,000
The University of Utah: $700,000
University of Washington: $700,000
Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $700,000
Yale University: $700,000

Precollege and Undergraduate Science Education Program

HHMI Professors(Four-year grants, payments begin in FY 2011)

Winston A. Anderson, Ph.D.: Howard University; $600,000
Utpal Banerjee, Ph.D.: University of California, Los Angeles; $600,000
Catherine L. Drennan, Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; $800,000
Sarah C.R. Elgin, Ph.D.: Washington University in St. Louis; $800,000
Irving R. Epstein, Ph.D.: Brandeis University; $600,000
Jo Handelsman, Ph.D.: Yale University; $800,000
Graham F. Hatfull, Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh; $800,000

Richard M. Losick, Ph.D.: Harvard University; $600,000
Diane K. O'Dowd, Ph.D.: University of California, Irvine; $600,000
Baldomero Olivera, Ph.D.: University of Utah; $800,000
Scott A. Strobel, Ph.D.: Yale University; $600,000
Graham C. Walker, Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; $600,000
Isiah M. Warner, Ph.D.: Louisiana State University; $600,000

Research Universities (Four-year grants, payments begin in FY 2011)

Boston University: Boston, Massachusetts; $1.5 million
Brown University: Providence, Rhode Island; $1 million
California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, California; $1.6 million
Carnegie Mellon University: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; $1 million
Clemson University: Clemson, South Carolina; $1 million
College of William and Mary: Williamsburg, Virginia; $1.2 million
Cornell University: Ithaca, New York; $800,000
Dartmouth College: Hanover, New Hampshire; $800,000
Duke University: Durham, North Carolina; $1 million
Emory University: Atlanta, Georgia; $1.8 million
Florida International University: Miami, Florida; $1 million
Georgetown University: Washington, D.C.; $1.6 million
Harvard University: Cambridge, Massachusetts; $800,000
Iowa State University: Ames, Iowa; $1.6 million
Lehigh University: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; $1.5 million
Louisiana State University: Baton Rouge, Louisiana; $1.4 million
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, Massachusetts; $1.8 million
Montana State University: Bozeman, Montana; $1.2 million
New Mexico State University: Las Cruces, New Mexico; $1.8 million
North Carolina State University: Raleigh, North Carolina; $1.5 million
Northwestern University: Evanston, Illinois; $2 million
Pennsylvania State University: University Park, Pennsylvania; $1 million
Princeton University: Princeton, New Jersey; $1.5 million
Purdue University: West Lafayette, Indiana; $1.5 million
Rice University: Houston, Texas; $1.2 million

State University of New York at Binghamton: Binghamton, New York; $1.4 million
State University of New York at Stony Brook: Stony Brook, New York; $1.5 million
University of Alabama: Tuscaloosa, Alabama; $1.5 million
University of Arizona: Tucson, Arizona; $1.8 million
University of California, Davis: Davis, California; $1.2 million
University of California, Los Angeles: Los Angeles, California; $1.2 million
University of California, Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara, California; $1 million
University of Colorado at Boulder: Boulder, Colorado; $1.8 million
University of Delaware: Newark, Delaware; $1.2 million
University of Florida: Gainesville, Florida; $1.2 million
University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Baltimore, Maryland; $1.5 million
University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, Maryland; $1.5 million
University of Miami: Coral Gables, Florida; $1.4 million
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Minneapolis, Minnesota; $1.5 million
University of Missouri, Columbia: Columbia, Missouri; $1.5 million
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill, North Carolina; $1.3 million
University of North Texas: Denton, Texas; $1.3 million
University of Oregon: Eugene, Oregon; $1.5 million
University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; $1.2 million
University of Texas at Austin: Austin, Texas; $1.6 million
University of Wisconsin�Madison: Madison, Wisconsin; $1.4 million
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Blacksburg, Virginia; $1.4 million
Washington University in St. Louis: St. Louis, Missouri; $1.6 million
Western Michigan University: Kalamazoo, Michigan; $1 million
Yale University: New Haven, Connecticut; $1.6 million

HHMI’s Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP)

Sarah Aguirre: New Mexico State University
Oluwakemi Aladesuyi Arogundade: Washington University in St. Louis
Anissa Alexander: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Steve Amaefuna: Carleton College
Robert Amezquita: University of California, San Diego
Ramina Amino: University of California, San Diego
Danya Anouti: Arizona State University
Ameer Armaly: Furman University
Peter Beah: University of Maryland, College Park
Stephanie Bowles: Hampton University
Isaac Businger: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nitzy Bustamante: Franklin & Marshall College
Romina Clemente: Davidson College
Nicole Dautel: Duke University
Maria Dewendt: Georgia State University
Julio Diaz: University of Miami
Jorge Dinis: San Jose State University
Nii Darku Dodoo: Morehouse College
Victoria Fashakin: Tufts University
Estefania Fernandez: University of Texas at Austin
Elisa Frankel: Mount Holyoke College
Angel Garcia: Brandeis University
Robert Garcia: University of Colorado at Boulder
Ciara Gimblet: Howard University
Robert Gonzalez: University of Arizona
Abigail Groff: Stanford University
Todd Grover: University of California, Los Angeles
Victoria Hanna: University of California, Irvine
Nadia Herrera: University of Texas at El Paso
Aisha Hilliard: Duke University
Samantha Hinds: Smith College
Danielle Hooker: Oakwood University
Sofia Infante: Whitman College
Bianca Islam: Georgia State University
Joanie Jean: Swarthmore College
Jessica Jimenez: University of California, Los Angeles
Joshua Jones: Morehouse College
Sandra Jones: Spelman College
Kristina Kesel: Clemson University

Rima Kharbush: Gustavus Adolphus College
Oluwatomi Lanre-Amos: Harvard University
Derica Laramore: Emory University
Maian Lopian: North Carolina Central University
Dyana Lucas: University of Montana
Samar Mahmoud: Drew University
Nathalie Malcolm: Louisiana State University and A & M College
Colette Martin: University of California, Riverside
Connie Martin: University of California, Riverside
Kellan McLemore: Carleton College
Amar Mirza: University of Georgia
Ike Muniez Jr.: University of Texas, Pan American
Nellin Njovu: Trinity University
Kwadwo Opoku-Nsiah: Colby College
Gladys Palaguachi: Smith College
Anita Patrick: Clemson University
Kevin Perkins: Rice University
Akanksha Rajeurs: University of Georgia
Shan'Terika Remo: Louisiana State University and A & M College
Fernando Rodriguez Perez: Gonzaga University
Krystal Salazar: University of Florida
Jason Schott: California State University, Fullerton
Nematullah Sharaf: University of Massachusetts
Kailan Sierra-Davidson: Harvard University
Candice Thompson: Howard University
Gabriela Toledo: University of Miami
Devan Turner: University of Delaware
Amanda Urbina: University of Arizona
Eric Velazquez: University of California, Davis
Rosalie Virata: California State University-Fullerton
Andre Walcott: Bowdoin College
Jillian Walton: College of William and Mary
Jackline Wanjala: Yale University
Robert Wardlow II: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Whitney White: University of Pittsburgh
Brandon Wilkins: University of Texas at Austin
Temesgen Woldeyesus: University of California, Davis
Victor Wongk: Oakwood University
Joseph Yawe: University of Massachusetts

Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Initiatives

Audubon Naturalist Society: Chevy Chase, Maryland; Grant: Greenkids Environmental Education Lessons; $50,000
Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Annapolis, Maryland; Grant: Maryland Environmental Education Program; $150,000

Eleanor Roosevelt High School: Greenbelt, Maryland; Grant: Science and Technology Program; $46,000
Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation: Rockville, Maryland; Grant: Elementary Science Leadership Program, Student and Teacher Internship Program, Student Academies of Science, Teacher Professional Development; $550,000

Loudoun County, Virginia, Initiatives

Loudoun County Public Schools: Leesburg, Virginia; Grant: Teacher Professional Development Institute, Academy of Science, Student Research, Curriculum Development and College Scholarships; $1,000,000

College Scholarships‡‡

Mona Azadi: Stone Bridge High School
Rachel Mary Caudill: Park View High School
Angelina Ailda Cerimele: Heritage High School
Kara Elizabeth Crosser: Dominion High School
Joshua Hanna Fass: Broad Run High School
Maria Haas: Freedom High School
Jinwon Dan Kim: Briar Woods High School
Victoria Luu: Stone Bridge High School
Anna-Luisa Mirto: Potomac Falls High School
Waheeda Agha Naimi: Loudoun Valley High School

Edgar Fernando Oliveros: Briar Woods High School
Christopher Kevin Palmer: Park View High School
Kally Recinos: Heritage High School
Nicholas Mark Sharp: Dominion High School
Xin (Alan) Shen: Broad Run High School
Adam Matthew Staffen: Potomac Falls High School
Monica Helen Stone: Loudoun County High School
Alex Graeme Thomson: Loudoun Valley High School
Megan Leigh Vahsen: Loudoun County High School
Andrea Wen: Freedom High School

Other Precollege and Undergraduate Science Education Awards

American Association for the Advancement of Science: Washington, D.C.; Grant: Science’s Education Forum; $40,000
University of Colorado at Boulder: Boulder, Colorado; Grant: Colorado Learning Assistant Model; $100,000

Yale University: New Haven, Connecticut; Grant: Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology; $140,000

Educational Resources

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA): Arlington, Virginia; Grant: Science reporting on the PBS NewsHour; $100,000

Other Awards

United Way of Loudoun County and Other Community Organizations in Loudoun County and Northern Virginia: Leesburg, Virginia; $40,409
United Way of the National Capital Area: Washington, D.C.; $62,418

Partners in Health: Haiti Earthquake Relief; $50,000
University of Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Grant: To support the work of Graham Hatfull, Ph.D., on HHMI's Science Education Alliance
$55,000