The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has awarded 151 fellowships to enable some of the world’s most promising young scientists to receive advanced training in biomedical research.
Eighty of the fellowships are five-year awards for graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees in the biological sciences. The other 71 fellowships will enable medical students to take a year off from their medical studies to pursue research full time, or to resume their medical studies after a year of research.
“We expect many of these outstanding students to be at the forefront of fundamental research in the years ahead,” said HHMI President Purnell W. Choppin. “The fellows are an important investment in the future.”
HHMI, the nation’s largest private philanthropy, now supports 455 students at 66 academic institutions through these two programs. A third fellowship program enables physicians with clinical experience to receive training in basic research for three years. Altogether, HHMI has provided $95 million in fellowship support since 1988 to 1,400 outstanding students and physician-scientists.
“The presentations each spring by fellows from these programs illustrate the broad range of important questions they are addressing, in the laboratories of superb mentors,” said Joseph G. Perpich, HHMI’s vice president for grants and special programs. “We look forward to the significant new insights that will emerge from the work of the new fellows.”
Information about the fellowship programs is available on the World Wide Web at /programs.
Predoctoral Fellowships in Biological Sciences
The Predoctoral Fellowships in Biological Sciences support students for up to five years while they pursue full-time study toward a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree. The program now supports 356 predoctoral students at an annual cost of more than $10 million.
Each $28,500 predoctoral award includes an annual stipend of $14,500 and a $14,000 cost-of-education allowance, which goes to the fellowship institution. Eligible fields include biochemistry, biophysics, biostatistics, cell biology, developmental biology, epidemiology, genetics, immunology, mathematical and computational biology, microbiology, molecular biology, neuroscience, pharmacology, physiology, structural biology and virology. This year’s 80 new fellows, including 46 men and 34 women, are planning graduate study at 30 academic institutions in the United States and 2 in the United Kingdom. Eleven of the fellows are from minority groups underrepresented in the sciences. The group includes 63 U.S. citizens and 4 fellows from China, 3 each from Canada and India, and 1 each from Belize, Chile, Russia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and United Kingdom.
Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students
The Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students will enable 58 medical students to conduct biomedical research full time in a laboratory of their choice for one year. The 42 men and 16 women selected this year will study at 24 institutions. Eight of the fellows are from minority groups underrepresented in the sciences. Each $24,500 award includes a $14,500 stipend, a $5,000 research allowance and a $5,000 allowance to the fellowship institution.
In addition to these new fellowships to medical students, HHMI also announced that it would provide continued support to seven men and six women who received fellowships last year, bringing the overall program to an annual level of more than $2.5 million. Two of these “continued fellows” will pursue a second year of training in research. The other 11 are returning to school to complete their medical studies and will receive a stipend and education allowance totaling $24,500 each year for up to two years.
Contact:
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Predoctoral Fellowships in Biological Sciences 1996 Fellows
Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Mathematical Biology |
Name |
Undergraduate Institution, |
Fellowship Institution |
Andrea Linn Graham |
Mount Holyoke College, 1992 |
Cornell University |
Jorge Eduardo Lopez |
University of California - Davis, 1995 |
University of Chicago |
Susan Elizabeth Ptak |
Villanova University, 1996 |
Stanford University |
Roberto Jaime Sanchez |
Concepcion University (Chile), 1993 |
Rockefeller University |
Jovonne Williams |
Bennett College, 1996 |
Harvard University |
Cell and Developmental Biology |
Name |
Undergraduate Institution, |
Fellowship Institution |
Pamela Lynn Bradley |
University of Virginia, 1995 |
Johns Hopkins University |
Brian Andrew Davies |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995 |
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
Julie Ann Gates |
University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1991 |
University of Utah |
Zemer Gitai |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996 |
University of California - San Francisco |
Arash Komeili |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996 |
University of California - San Francisco |
Richard Chin-Hung Kuo* |
Johns Hopkins University, 1991 |
Stanford University |
Yilun Liu |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995 |
Yale University |
Jeffrey Meier Marcus* |
Cornell University, 1995 |
Duke University |
Madhubonti Mitra Mustaphi |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996 |
Stanford University |
Christina Adrianna Onufryk |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996 |
University of California - San Francisco |
Andrei Georgievich Petcherski |
Moscow State University (Russia), 1995 |
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Victoria Anne Smith |
College of William and Mary, 1995 |
Indiana University at Bloomington |
Jue Wang |
McGill University (Canada), 1995 |
University of California - San Francisco |
* Award deferred from 1995 |
Genetics and Molecular Biology |
Name |
Undergraduate Institution, |
Fellowship Institution |
Mary Catherine Alexander |
Villanova University, 1996 |
Princeton University |
Jessica Sarah Blumstein |
Johns Hopkins University, 1996 |
University of California - San Francisco |
Christopher Ryan Brodie |
University of Georgia, 1992 |
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities |
Bin Chen |
Beijing University (People’s Republic of China), 1995 |
University of Chicago |
Shane Patrick Crotty |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996 |
University of California - San Francisco |
Ridgley McLean Fisk |
Princeton University, 1995 |
Harvard University |
Samantha Lee Gray |
University of Kansas Main Campus, 1996 |
Rockefeller University |
Emmanuel Jerry Green |
Regis University, 1989 |
Catholic University of America |
Carolyn Mary Hutter |
Brown University, 1994 |
Cornell University |
Benjamin Simon Leader |
University of California - Berkeley, 1995 |
Harvard University |
Cathyryne Kapiolani Manner |
University of California - Davis, 1996 |
University of California - San Diego |
Sean Gregory Megason |
University of Texas at Austin, 1996 |
Harvard University |
Carolyn Nicole Pettibone |
Santa Clara University, 1996 |
Harvard University |
Zhe Qian |
Wilson College, 1996 |
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Daniel Rene Richards |
Carnegie Mellon University, 1995 |
Stanford University |
Sheldon Stanley Rowan |
McMaster University (Canada), 1995 |
Harvard University |
Alvaro Sagasti |
Williams College, 1996 |
University of California - San Francisco |
Marc Adam Suchard* |
University of California - Berkeley, 1995 |
University of Oxford (United Kingdom) |
Emily Cecile Walsh |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995 |
University of California - San Francisco |
* Award deferred from 1995 |
Immunology and Microbiology |
Name |
Undergraduate Institution, |
Fellowship Institution |
Alexander Jude Adduci |
College of William and Mary, 1993 |
Georgetown University |
Suneet Agarwal |
Brown University, 1993 |
Harvard University |
Doris Renee Brown |
University of Texas at San Antonio |
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio |
Dina Sharon Gould |
Harvard University, 1996 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Raquel Eugenia Izumi |
University of California - Santa Barbara, 1993 |
University of California - Los Angeles |
Aaron Jacob Kelly |
Indiana University at Bloomington, 1995 |
Harvard University |
John Michael Lyle |
Bates College, 1995 |
Stanford University |
John Cranston Randell |
University of Iowa, 1996 |
Harvard University |
Navin Rao |
University of Puget Sound, 1996 |
Harvard University |
Daniel Nathan Shriner |
University of Maryland College Park, 1995 |
University of Washington |
Patrick Joseph Stern |
Louisiana State University and A&M; College, 1995 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Yu Xia |
Beijing University (People’s Republic of China), 1995 |
Stanford University |
Neuroscience and Physiology |
Name |
Undergraduate Institution, |
Fellowship Institution |
Stephen Alexander Baccus |
University of Miami, 1983 |
University of Miami |
Michelle Lyn Cunningham |
University of Dayton, 1995 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Joe Chao-Peng Hao |
University of California - Berkeley, 1995 |
University of California - Berkeley |
James Matthew Kittelberger |
Harvard University, 1990 |
Duke University |
Melissa Gail Kramer* |
Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, 1995 |
Washington University |
David Douglas Laws |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995 |
University of California - Berkeley |
Albert Kimin Lee |
Harvard University, 1994 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Kenneth Rajan Leslie |
Waterloo University (Canada), 1991 |
Brandeis University |
Clare Risa Ozawa |
Stanford University, 1995 |
Stanford University |
Kit Erica Purdy |
Trinity University, 1995 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Devesh Raj |
Angelo State University, 1995 |
Yale University |
Hemaka Anthony Rajapakse |
Macalester College, 1996 |
Harvard University |
Jack Schonbrun |
University of California - Santa Cruz, 1994 |
University of California - San Francisco |
Kurt Stephen Thorn |
Princeton University, 1996 |
University of California - San Francisco |
Yvonne Michelle Ulrich |
Harvey Mudd College, 1994 |
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities |
Yongping Wang |
Yale University, 1995 |
Dartmouth College |
Julie Lynn Wilsbacher |
Purdue University Main Campus, 1995 |
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
Noa Zerangue |
Reed College, 1995 |
University of California - San Francisco |
* Award deferred from 1995 |
Structural Biology and Biochemistry |
Name |
Undergraduate Institution, |
Fellowship Institution |
Jessica Lee Blazyk |
Ohio University Main Campus, 1996 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Kartik Chandran |
Lafayette College, 1995 |
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Tara Rena Evans |
Rhodes College, 1995 |
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Victor Fernando Holmes |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995 |
University of California - Berkeley |
Colin James Loweth |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995 |
University of California - Berkeley |
Angela Robin Newhoff |
University of California - Santa Cruz, 1995 |
University of California - San Francisco |
Megan Elizabeth Nunez |
Smith College, 1996 |
California Institute of Technology |
Randall Theodore Peterson |
Brigham Young University, 1995 |
Harvard University |
Steven Cary Rothman |
University of California - Los Angeles, 1995 |
University of California - Berkeley |
Raymond Courtney Trievel |
University of Delaware, 1995 |
University of Pennsylvania |
Jeffrey Gilbert Varnes |
Franklin and Marshall College, 1996 |
California Institute of Technology |
Kira Juliet Weissman |
Stanford University, 1995 |
University of Cambridge, Churchill College (United Kingdom) |
Inn Huam Yuk |
California Institute of Technology, 1996 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
* Award deferred from 1995 |
Research Training Fellowships For Medical Students 1996 Fellows Initial Awards--First Year of Research
Continued Awards
Cell and Developmental Biology |
Name |
Fellowship Institution |
Research Mentor |
Department |
Ron Alexander Birnbaum |
University of California - San Francisco |
Kevin M. Shannon, M.D. |
Pediatrics |
Aamer Zahid Farooki |
Duke University |
David L. Epstein, M.D. |
Ophthalmology |
John Phillip Forman |
Yale University |
Albert B. Deisseroth, M.D., Ph.D. |
Internal Medicine |
L. April Gago |
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center |
Ernest E. Moore, M.D. |
Surgery |
Heather Elizabeth Gibson |
Harvard University |
Merton Bernfield, M.D. |
Pediatrics |
Timothy Eugene Graham |