Our students frequently receive recognition for their achievements both from Baylor College of Medicine as well as from other institutions and organizations. Below is a listing of some of the awards and honors they have earned in recent years.
| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
|---|---|---|
| Katarzyna Kent | Best Poster Presentation |
BCM Department of Pathology and Immunology Trainee Research Symposium |
| Dharaniya Sakthivel | Poster Presentation - Honorable Mention | Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center 18th Annual Research Symposium |
| Dharaniya Sakthivel | Featured Book Chapter - Honorarium | Elsevier Inc. |
| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Busse | BP America Biomedical Scholarship | BP America Endowment |
| Catherine Bradley | 2nd place platform speaker | BCM Graduate Student Symposium |
| Harini Pallikarana Tirumlala | 2nd place poster presentation | BCM Graduate Student Symposium |
| Katarzyna Kent | Post Award for Research Relevant to Contraceptive Research and Development | Gates Foundation |
| Morgan Stephens | F31 Fellowship "Investigating the Role of the Cytoskeleton" | National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
| Katherine Pendleton | Award: F31 fellowship "Investigating the role of CRAT as a driver of triple negative breast cancer chemoresistance" | National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute |
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Recipient |
Award |
Organization/Event |
|---|---|---|
| Moez Dawood | CPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2021-2023 | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas |
| Andrew Yang | CPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2021-2023 | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas |
| Adam Weinstein | Honorable Mention-Oral Presentation | Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Symposium 2021 |
| Owen Hirschi | F31 Fellowship "Germline Structural Variant Identification and Functional Determination in Childhood Cancer" - F31CA265163 | National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute |
| Dharaniya Sakthivel | CPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2021-2023 | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas |
| Varuna Chander | Third Place, Three Minute Thesis Competition | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Timothy Abreo | Predoctoral Research Fellowship | American Epilepsy Society |
| Venkatasubramaniam Sundaramurthy | Predoctoral Fellowship | American Heart Association |
| Cathy Bradley | First Place Oral Presentation | BCM, Medical Scientist Training Program Symposium 2021 |
| C. Grant Mangleburg | Third Place Oral Presentation | BCM, Medical Scientist Training Program Symposium 2021 |
| Varuna Chander | Semifinalist, Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics | American Society of Human Genetics 2021 |
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Recipient |
Award |
Organization/Event |
|---|---|---|
| Christina Magyar | McNair M.D./Ph.D. Scholar | Baylor College of Medicine |
|
Andrew Yang |
BP America Biomedical Scholar Endowment |
Baylor College of Medicine |
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Recipient |
Award |
Organization/Event |
|---|---|---|
| Pamela Lurie | Third Place, Three Minute Thesis Competition | Baylor College of Medicine |
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Brian St. Hilaire |
Gilliam Graduate Fellowship |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
|
Hadley Sheppard |
F31 Fellowship "Investigating the therapeutic wind within brachyury upstream regulation of chordoma" - F31CA236130 |
National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute |
|
Varuna Chander |
Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Fellowship RFA in Precision Medicine and Population Health Initiative |
National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health Baylor College of Medicine |
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Recipient |
Award |
Organization/Event |
|---|---|---|
|
Bradley, Catherine |
McNair M.D./Ph.D. Scholar Award |
Robert and Janice McNair Foundation/McNair Medical Institute M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program |
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Dodson, Lois |
F31 Fellowship |
National Heart. Lung and Blood Institute |
|
Hansen, Adam |
RFA in Precision Medicine and Population Health Initiative |
Baylor College of Medicine |
|
Jolly, Angad |
Invited Platform Speaker |
American Society of Human Genetics |
|
Khayat, Michael |
RFA in Precision Medicine and Population Health Initiative |
Baylor College of Medicine |
|
Lurie, Pamela |
Funding on the T32 Hematology Training Program |
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases |
|
Meyer, Kristen |
Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Trainee Travel Fund Award |
International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation |
|
Oaks, Ninad |
Third Place for Trainee Poster Presentation |
25th Anniversary Texas Children's Research Symposium |
|
Sisoudiya, Saumya |
CPRIT Comprehensive Cancer Training Fellowship for 2018-2020 |
CPRIT |
|
Song, Xiaofei |
Registration Bursary |
Genomics of Rare Disease Meeting |
|
Ye, Hui |
Travel Grant Award |
International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders |
|
Recipient |
Award |
Organization/Event |
|---|---|---|
|
Dodson, Lois |
First Place, Trainee Poster Presentation |
Texas Children’s Hospital Research Symposium |
|
Hsieh, Yi-Chen |
Trainee Professional Development Award |
Society of Neuroscience |
|
Jolly, Angad |
Invited Poster Presenter |
American Society of Human Genetics |
|
Meyer, Kristen |
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD F30 Fellowship “Impact of Breast Milk on the Developing Infant Microbiome” - 1F30HD090891-01 |
National Institutes of Health |
|
Meyer, Kristen |
FASEB Young Investigator Travel Award |
Origins and Benefits of Biologically Active Components of Human Milk, Lisbon, Portugal |
|
Sisoudiya, Saumya |
Semifinalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics |
American Society of Human Genetics |
|
Song, Xiaofei |
Bravo Award |
Baylor College of Medicine |
|
Song, Xiaofei |
Scholarship for CSHL Course, High-Throughput Biology: From Sequence to Networks |
Helmsley Foundation |
|
Wang, Li |
Travel Scholarship |
Keystone Symposium on Synapses and Circuits; Formation, Function and Dysfunction |
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Recipient |
Award |
Organization/Event |
|---|---|---|
|
Agrawal, Smriti |
Gordon Research Conference Travel Award |
Gordon Visual Systems Development Conference |
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Agrawal, Smriti |
Society of Developmental Biology Travel Award |
Gordon Visual Systems Development Conference |
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Agrawal, Smriti |
Emerging Trends and Hot Topics Award |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology |
|
Agrawal, Smriti |
Best Poster Award in Retinal Cell Biology |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology |
|
Agrawal, Smriti |
Nominated, Members-in-Training Award in Vision Research |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology |
|
Bochkov, Ivan |
John J. Trentin Scholarship Award |
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine |
|
Gundry, Michael |
Graduate Student Mentor of the Year (2nd place) |
Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine |
|
Gundry, Michael |
Innovation of the Year (co-awarded with Lorenzo Brunetti |
Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine |
|
Han, Seung |
Poster Award |
Koreans Scientists and Engineers Association |
|
Hsieh, Yi-Chen |
Travel Fellowship |
Alzheimer's Association International Conference |
|
Hunt, Patrick |
Baylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) Scholar |
Baylor College of Medicine |
|
Iyer, Amrita |
Travel Grant for Oral Presentation |
13th International Congress on Human Genetics, Kyoto, Japan |
|
Jones, Evan |
Fellowship, Training Program in Biomedical Informatics |
National Library of Medicine |
|
Siehr, Meagan |
Pre-doctoral Fellowship |
American Epilepsy Society |
