Summary
HHMI names 66 new medical and dental student fellows and 42 HHMI/NIH research scholars.
To help nurture the careers of future medical scientists, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is awarding nearly $3.9 million in fellowships and research scholar positions to 108 medical and dental students to spend a year conducting mentored biomedical research. Physician and dental scientists play a vital role in medically oriented basic research, as well as in translational research to apply basic research discoveries to medical problems.
HHMI offers two programs that immerse medical and dental students in biomedical research. The HHMI-NIH Research Scholars Program brings medical and dental students to live for a year on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland, where they conduct research in NIH laboratories. The HHMI Research Training Fellowships for Medical and Dental Students support year-long fellowships at a research institution of the fellow's choice.
HHMI hopes that these students' research experiences provide them the training and motivation to become medical scientists.
William Galey
"Medical scientists have a deep appreciation for the problems medicine needs to solve,” said William Galey, graduate education program director at HHMI. “They also know how to approach those problems in a research lab setting, so they play a vital role both in medical research and advances in the treatment of disease. HHMI hopes that these students' research experiences provide them the training and motivation to become medical scientists."
Although several dental students previously have participated in the HHMI-NIH Research Scholars program, this is the first year that dental students have also been selected to receive HHMI Research Training Fellowships. The dental student fellows selected this year are from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and the University of Maryland Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. The dental student research scholar is from Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine.
"We feel it is important to include dental students in our medical research training programs," Galey said. "Not only is there a need to address important dental health issues through biomedical research, but basic dental research has produced some important findings relevant to human medical conditions."
This year a total of 329 students at 87 different medical and dental schools applied for the two programs. The Institute awarded 66 fellowships and named 42 HHMI-NIH research scholars.
HHMI makes a special effort to attract women and minorities underrepresented in the sciences to apply for these programs. Thirty percent of the new fellows and 36 percent of the new HHMI-NIH research scholars are women. Seventeen percent of the fellows and approximately seven percent of the research scholars are minorities underrepresented in the biomedical sciences.
"The impact of a year of research experience can be enormous," said Galey. Follow-up studies of alumni show that more than half consistently go on into research careers. The number of HHMI fellows and research scholars applying for a second year of research support is also increasing. During 2005-2006, 12 research scholars are conducting their second year of research at NIH, compared to seven in 2004-2005 and three in 2003-2004. Two of this year's medical student fellows plan to enter M.D./Ph.D. programs and eight applied to continue their HHMI research fellowship for a second year.
HHMI's fellowships and research scholar positions are complemented by another HHMI program, the Med into Grad Initiative, which addresses the need for more clinically trained scientists by incorporating more clinical training in Ph.D. programs in the life sciences. Thirteen research institutions received grants totaling $10 million this year to develop a clinical component for their graduate students studying the life sciences.
The 2006 research scholars and medical and dental student fellows are:
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2006 Research Training Fellowships for Medical Students |
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Name |
Medical School |
Fellowship Institution |
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Shimon Bababeygy |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Pavan Bachireddy |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Carmen Barnes |
Brown Medical School |
University of Alabama, Birmingham |
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Jaime Berg |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
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Frederick Boehm |
University of Wisconsin Medical School |
Harvard University |
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Jason Brant |
Washington University School of Medicine |
Washington University |
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Eric Buras |
Baylor College of Medicine |
Baylor College of Medicine |
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Melissa Burns |
New York Medical College |
Harvard University |
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Tene Cage |
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine |
University of California, San Francisco |
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Aaron Cardon |
Baylor College of Medicine |
Baylor College of Medicine |
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Aadel Chaudhuri |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
California Institute of Technology |
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Jonathan Clarke |
Harvard Medical School |
Harvard University |
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Sudeb Dalai |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Alexander Diaz de Villalvilla |
Yale University School of Medicine |
Yale University |
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Lu Anne Dinglasan |
Yale University School of Medicine |
Yale University |
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Jennifer Dominguez |
Yale University School of Medicine |
Yale University |
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Rebecca Dumont |
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
University of California, Los Angeles |
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Stephen Farris |
University of Washington School of Medicine |
University of Washington |
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Wen-Chi Foo |
Duke University School of Medicine |
Duke University |
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Mani Foroohar |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Alfred Garfall |
New York University School of Medicine |
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
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Stephen George |
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry |
University of Rochester |
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Phillip Gray |
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
Harvard University |
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Daniel Halperin |
Cornell University Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences |
Cornell University |
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Andrew Hoover |
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine |
University of Iowa |
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Jameel Johnson |
Baylor College of Medicine |
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute |
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James Knutson |
Wake Forest University School of Medicine |
Wake Forest University |
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Geoffrey Krampitz |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Eric Lee |
Duke University School of Medicine |
Duke University |
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Mitchell Lunn |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Maria Lucia Madariaga |
Harvard Medical School |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Robert Mallery |
Washington University School of Medicine |
Washington University |
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Ovidiu Marina |
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
Harvard University |
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Erin Moore |
University of Washington School of Medicine |
University of Washington |
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Nathan Morrell |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Anna Muench |
University of Maryland Dental School |
University of Maryland, Baltimore |
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Andrew Munro |
Duke University School of Medicine |
Duke University |
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Babak Nazer |
Harvard Medical School |
Harvard University |
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Gregory Nelson |
Yale University School of Medicine |
Yale University |
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Martha Noel |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Rockefeller University |
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Jenny Pan |
New York University School of Medicine |
New York University |
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Tho Pham |
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine |
University of California, San Diego |
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Andrew Pogozelski |
Duke University School of Medicine |
Duke University |
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Laura Prolo |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Charles Rickert |
Washington University School of Medicine |
Washington University |
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Amilcar Rizzo |
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Jason Robertson |
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University |
Case Western Reserve University |
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Amit Sabnis |
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine |
University of California, San Francisco |
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Louis Saddic |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Carolyn Senavsky |
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
University of California, Los Angeles |
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Maulik Shah |
Yale University School of Medicine |
Yale University |
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Rahul Sheth |
Harvard Medical School |
Harvard University |
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Sunil Sheth |
Harvard Medical School |
Harvard University |
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Jeffrey Shyu |
New York University School of Medicine |
New York University |
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Raja Sivamani |
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine |
University of Colorado, Boulder |
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Thing Rinda Soong |
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
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Ambika Sud |
Duke University School of Medicine |
Harvard University |
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Yolanda Tseng |
Harvard Medical School |
Harvard University |
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John Van Arnam |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Aaron Viny |
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University |
Case Western Reserve University |
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Neil Wagle |
Harvard Medical School |
Harvard University |
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Audrey Wang |
Harvard Medical School |
Harvard University |
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Estee Wang |
Harvard School of Dental Medicine |
Harvard University |
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Jack Wang |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
Stanford University |
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Thomas Wilson |
University of Nebraska Medical Center |
University of Nebraska |
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Kimberly Mei Winges |
New York Medical College |
University of Colorado, Boulder |
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2006 HHMI-NIH Research Scholars |
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Name |
Medical School |
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Stephanie Ajudua |
Brown Medical School |
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Ali Alikhan |
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine |
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Kelly Bolton |
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
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Kirk Campbell |
New York University School of Medicine |
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Paul Campion |
New York University School of Medicine |
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Stephen Chang |
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
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Selby Chen |
New York University School of Medicine |
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Jessica Choe |
Drexel University College of Medicine |
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David Chou |
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
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Catherine Cox |
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons |
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Aditya Derasari |
University of South Florida College of Medicine |
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Elodi Dielubanza |
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
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Reza Ehsanian |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
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Kevin Elias |
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
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Kiran Gollapudi |
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |
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Rozalina Grubina |
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
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Andrew Gunn |
University of South Dakota School of Medicine |
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Courtney Hancock |
Emory University School of Medicine |
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Jesse Hanisch |
Creighton University School of Medicine |
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Jennifer Hellawell |
Cornell University Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences |
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Victor Huang |
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine |
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Timothy Ito |
New York University School of Medicine |
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Neil Kumar |
University of Kansas, Kansas City, School of Medicine |
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Gina Kwon |
Stanford University School of Medicine |
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Ravikanth Maddipati |
Boston University School of Medicine |
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Bibhu Mohanty |
Duke University School of Medicine |
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Giang Nguyen |
Albany Medical College |
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Seth Pantanelli |
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry |
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Itai Pashtan |
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences and Pritzker School of Medicine |
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David Patterson |
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California |
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Aleksandra Rachitskaya |
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine |
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Tiffany Scharschmidt |
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine |
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Matthew Scherer |
Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
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Jennifer Shih |
Washington University School of Medicine |
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Jessica Shireman |
Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine |
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Alexander Shoushtari |
Rush Medical College of Rush University |
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Brian Sworder |
Boston University School of Medicine |
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Animesh Tandon |
University of Michigan Medical School |
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Beth Toste |
Brown Medical School |
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Varun Verma |
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey—Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
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Tim Weaver |
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine |
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Uwais Zaid |
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA |