NJMS Faculty Organization Outstanding Graduate Student Award

• Each year the Faculty Organization of NJMS honors one graduating GSBS PhD student for outstanding performance in their graduate careers. The student should exemplify academic excellence, research accomplishment and service while in our graduate program.

  Selection of the Outstanding GSBS Student of the Year is based on:

  Academic achievements;
  Research, research and/or fellowship awards
  Publications and presentations;
  Teaching; mentorship
  Leadership; community service;
  Personality

  The committee considers the student's CV, nominating letter and any letters of support from other faculty members.

Applications are due March 1st, 2009

• Past recipients of this award are:

  2011:
  Amanda McBride, MD,PhD
  Mentor: Padmini Salgame
  Department: Medicine

  2010:
  Angella Dorsey-Oresto, PhD
  Mentor: David Dubnau
  Department: Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

  2009:
  Era Izano
  PhD Mentor: Jeffrey Kaplan
  Department: Oral Biology
  Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program

• 2008:
  Katarzyna Anna Trzaska, Ph.D.,
  PhD Mentor Pranela Rameshwar; Department of Medicine
  Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program

  2007:
  Helen M. Genova, Ph.D.,
  PhD Mentor: John DeLuca; Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Neurology and Neurosciences)
  Integrative Neuroscience Graduate Program

  2006:
  Qi Shen, Ph.D.,
  PhD Mentor: Sylvia Christakos, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  2005:
  Qing Wang , Ph.D.
  PhD Mentor: George Studzinski, Department Molecular Pathology and Immunology

• Grace Pinhal-Enfield, Ph.D.,
  PhD Mentor: S. Joseph Leibovich, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine

• Yan Liu, Ph.D.,
  PhD Mentor: Sylvia Christakos, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  2004:
  Tara Young, Ph.D.,
  PhD Mentor: Michael Mathews, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  Trevor Reichman, MD, Ph.D.
  PhD Mentor Michael Mathews, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  2003:
  Jerome W. Breslin, Ph.D.,
  PhD Mentor: Walter N. Durán, Dept. of Pharmacology and Physiology,