Student Awards

2025 Masters and PhD Student Awards and Accolades

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Fellowships, Scholarships, and Research Awards

Christina Vyzas
NIH F30 Fellowship Award

Yingci Liu
NIH K08 Fellowship

Michelle Frank
NSF GRFP Honorable Mention

Matthew Gabrielle
NJMS Faculty Organization Award for PhD Student

Christopher Galifi
NJMS Faculty Organization Award for MD/PhD Student

S.C. Joseph Fu Awards
Senior 1st Place Award Paolo Turano
Senior 2nd Place Award Rachael Pulica
Junior 1st place Award Michelle Frank
Junior 2nd Place Award Ahri Han

3MT (Three Minute Thesis) Competition at Rutgers
Rouba Houbeika, 2nd place

Conference and Travel Awards

Jamie Francisco, American Heart Association Travel Award and Top Student/Trainee Abstract

Rouba Houbeika, Brain Health Institute Travel Award

Samira Bell, NY RNA Symposium Poster Award

Sara Alonso, Short Talk Prize Gastrointestinal Tract XXI meeting and Travel Award, Gamma Delta T Cell Conference

Maria Velez Brochero, Gordon Conference Travel Award, AAI Trainee Abstract Award, IMMY & MMSA Travel Award

Eden Hirsch, AAI Trainee Abstract Award

School of Graduate Studies Awards

Matthew Gabrielle
SGS Distinguished Doctoral Student Award

2024 Masters and PhD Student Awards and Accolades

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Fellowships, Scholarships, and Research Awards

Jojo Reyes
NJMS Faculty Organization Award for PhD Student

Christopher Markosian
NJMS Faculty Organization Award for MD/PhD Student

Samira Bell
Ahmed Aquib
S.C. Joseph Fu Awards

Marissa Schroeter
Dean Morris Schaffer Award

Ayma Malik
NIH NRSA F31 Predoctoral Fellowship

Kyla Johnson
NIH NRSA F31 Predoctoral Fellowship

Hannah Lamont
NIH F99/K00 Fellowship

Joycelyn Radeny
AHA Predoctoral Fellowship

Victoria Stiritz
New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research Predoctoral Fellowship

Hima Tallam
Rutgers Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorder Project Program Pilot Award

Eunah Sung
MOGAM-KASBP Scholarship, The Korean American Society in Biotech and Pharmaceuticals (KASBP) and MOGAM Science Scholarship Foundation

Conference Awards

Ayma Malik
Rutgers Brain Health Institute Trainee Travel Award 2023-2024
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Travel Award

School of Graduate Studies Awards

Christopher Markosian
Stanley S. Bergen Medal

Adriana Paldino*
Excellence in Leadership and Teaching

An asterisk (*) indicates Masters Student

2023 Masters and PhD Student Awards and Accolades

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Fellowships and Research Awards

Minh Ma
NJCCR predoctoral fellowship

Delong Zhou
AHA predoctoral fellowship

John Palmieri
NJMS Faculty Organization Award for MD/PhD Student

Angeliki Evangelou
NJMS Faculty Organization Award for PhD Student

Carlos Resstel do Amaral
Joycelyn Radeny
S.C. Joseph Fu Awards

Conference Awards
Samuel Desind
RNA Society Conference Travel Award

School of Graduate Studies Awards

John Palmieri
Stanley S. Bergen Medal

Simran Shah*
Outstanding Masters Student, Biomedical Sciences

An asterisk (*) indicates Masters Student

2022 Masters and PhD Student Awards and Accolades
Please join me in congratulating our students on their amazing accomplishments!

Fellowships and Research Awards

Jamie Francisco
NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship

Nawoo Kim
NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship

John Palmieri
NIH F30 predoctoral fellowship

Sara Alonso
NJCCR predoctoral fellowship

Samuel Desind
NJCCR predoctoral fellowship

Christopher Galifi
NJCCR predoctoral fellowship

Natasha Golovchenko
NJCCR predoctoral fellowship

Youssef Sabha
NJCCR predoctoral fellowship

Giuseppina Marchesini Tovar
NJCCR predoctoral fellowship

Eunah Sung
AHA predoctoral fellowship

Chengchen Hu
AHA predoctoral fellowship

Hannah Dewald
NJMS Faculty Organization Award

Guergana Panayotova
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Bruce A. Luxon Emerging Liver Scholar, 2021-2022
American Society of Transplant Surgeons, Jon Fryer Resident Scientist Scholarship Award, 2021-2022

Samuel Desind
Barry Li
S.C. Joseph Fu Awards

Natasha Golovchenko
Dean Morris Schaeffer Award

Conference Awards
Sara Alonso
American Physiological Society Gastrointestinal and Liver Section 2022 Research Recognition Award

Guergana Panayotova
American Physiological Society Gastrointestinal and Liver Section 2022 Research Recognition Award

School of Graduate Studies Awards

Hannah Dewald
Stanley S. Bergen Medal

Melvin Delvillar*
Outstanding Masters Student, Biomedical Sciences

Anthony Vocaturo*
Excellence in Outreach and Service

An asterisk (*) indicates Masters Student

2021 STUDENT AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
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Fellowships and Research Awards

Michael Warkala
National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Individual Predoctoral Fellowship 

Sun Han
New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Predoctoral Fellowship

Alicia Codrington
American Association of Immunologists Predoctoral Fellowship

Sara Alonso
NSF Honorable Mention, GRFP

Krystopher Maingrette
Dean Morris Schaffer Award

Varsha Gadiyar
S.C. Joseph Fu Award

Nicholas Monteleone
NJMS Faculty Organization Award

Conference Awards

Luo Jia
2021 American Gastroenterological Association Student Abstract Award, AAI Trainee Travel Award

Natasha Golovchenko
2021 American Gastroenterological Association Student Abstract Award, Digestive Disease Week Poster of Distinction

School of Graduate Studies Awards

Nicholas Monteleone, Outstanding PhD Student Award, Biomedical Sciences

Sheetal Ganesan, Outstanding Masters Student Award, Biomedical Sciences

Sonia Topouzis, Excellence in Leadership and Teaching

Matthew Amador, Excellence in Outreach and Service

2020 STUDENT AWARDS AND ACCOLADES

Fellowships and Research Awards

Pamela Hirschberg 
National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Individual Predoctoral Fellowship 

Julie Nouet
National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Individual Predoctoral Fellowship 

Gina Sanchez
NIH R01 Diversity Supplement

Miloni Dalal 
NJ Commission on Brain Injury Research Predoctoral Fellowship 

Jessica Schuyler
PSEG Scholarship, Executive Women of New Jersey

Heta Parmar
Victor Stollar Award in Virology

Conference Awards

Michael Schonning 
North American Vascular Biology Organization 
Vascular Biology 2020 
Award for Outstanding ePoster 

Stephanie Garcia
NJ Brain Health Institute Virtual Conference, November 2020
3rd Place in Oral Presentation

Vashnavi Kapilyawar
Presentations at RePORT India Leadership consortium, Mumbai, India Feb 2020 and NIH-NIAID Tuberculosis Research Units network, April 2020

Alicia Codrington
American Association of Immunologists Trainee Abstract Award and Travel Award

School of Graduate Studies Awards

Madeleine Hu, Bergen Medal of Excellence

Michelle Favre, Outstanding PhD Student Award, Biomedical Sciences

Georgia Barbayannis, Outstanding Masters Student Award, Biomedical Sciences