There are many funding opportunities available for graduate students in the Biological Science Division. Approximately 11% of our students are supported by individual fellowships (nearly 50 in 2020-21).
Have you received a fellowship? Please let us know: Featuring current awardees helps students following in your footsteps to identify new funding opportunities.
| Student | Fellowship | Research topic | Degree Programs | Advisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acero Bedoya, Santiago | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Understanding the role of PTPN22 in anti-tumor immunity | Cancer Biology | Thomas Gajewski |
| Adegunsoye, Ayodeji | Mentored patient-oriented research career development award | Improving pulmonary fibrosis classification with genomics informed phenotypic clusters | Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology | Yoav Gilad |
| Aracena, Katherine | HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study | Genetic and social determinants of inter-individual variation in immune responses | Human Genetics | Luis Barreiro |
| Baeza-Loya, Selina | HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study | The impact of diverse ion channels on sensory neuron function | Neurobiology | Ruth Anne Eatock |
| Blanc, Jennifer | Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Accurate and robust inference of mutational bias across complex traits and diseases | Human Genetics | Jeremy Berg |
| Borregard, Megan | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Regulation of effector function in tissue resident T cells | Biophysical Sciences | Bana Jabri |
| deLaittre, Elizabeth | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Changes in neural population activity during motor skill learning | Computational Neuroscience | Jason MacLean |
| Fialko, Kristina | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Evolutionary ecology of high altitude birds | Ecology & Evolution | Trevor Prince |
| Frazier, Katya | Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award | The role of the peripheral liver circadian clock and diurnal gut microbial mediators in the regulation of hepatic gluconeogenesis | Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition | Gene Chang |
| Frith, Mary | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Microbiota-dependent early life programming of gastrointestinal motility | Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program – MD/PhD | Matthew Brady |
| Gertsenshteyn, Inna | Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Correcting [18]F-Misonidazole PET with MRI and EPR to improve hypoxia-guided radiation therapy | Medical Physics | Chin-Tu Chen and Howard Halpern |
| Glauninger, Hendrik | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Understanding mRNA condensation and its role in translational control during stress | Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program – MD/PhD | Tobin Sosnick, D. Allan Drummond |
| Greaney, Marie | Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Characterizing motor control and variability at the single-cell level in larval Drosophila | Neurobiology | Ellie Heckscher |
| Hall, Jonathan | American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship | Dissecting novel chromatin-enriched RNA regulators of cardiac inflammation and rhythm | Cell and Molecular Biology | Alexander Ruthenburg |
| Hasse, Adam | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Quantitative MRI of Multiple Sclerosis | Medical Physics | Timothy Carroll |
| Hernandez, Cody | HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study | Prp22-dependent 3' splice site selection and fidelity | Cell and Molecular Biology | Jonathan Staley |
| Huggins, Rosemary | Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Crosstalk to Endocrine Therapy Resistance in the Context of ERa-Y537S | Cancer Biology | Geoffrey Greene |
| Hung, Anthony | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Determining the genetic basis of responses to biomechanical strain in an in vitro model of osteoarthritis | Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program – MD/PhD | Yoav Gilad |
| Keplinger, Amanda | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Nuclear import of nucleic acid binding proteins | Cell and Molecular Biology | Alexander Ruthenberg |
| Keyport, Samantha | Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Cellular stress sensing via biomolecular condensation | Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology | Alan Drummond |
| Li, Jin | American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship | Mechano-sensitive lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) regulates endothelial epigenome and atherosclerosis | Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition | Yun Fang |
| Liu, Mira | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Medical Physics | Medical Physics | Unassigned |
| Lobb-Rabe, Meike | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | DIP is required for synaptic elaboration and function | Cell and Molecular Biology | Robert Carrillo |
| MacDonald, Margo | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Neutrophil extracellular traps and the intersection of the immune and biophysical microenvironments | Biophysical Sciences | Melody Swartz and Margaret Gardel |
| Martin, Hannah | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Adaptations for fast synaptic transmission at vestibular hair cells | Neurobiology | Ruth Anne Eatock |
| McDonough, Matthew | HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study | --- | Cell and Molecular Biology | Jonathan Staley |
| McKinnon, Claire | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Direct and transthalamic pathways between primary and secondary visual cortex | Computational Neuroscience | S. Murray Sherman |
| Meng, Julia | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Circuit development in Drosophila larva | Cell and Molecular Biology | Elizabeth Heckscher |
| Miller, Zachary | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Community assembly, coexistence, and analysis of biodiversity data | Ecology & Evolution | Stefano Allesina |
| Moore, Dalton | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Developing a network-based encoding model of motor cortex during natural behavior of the unconstrained marmoset | Computational Neuroscience | Nicholas Hatsopoulos |
| Morgan, Jessica | USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Workforce Development Grant | Investigation of the interactions of pamps and damps, namely Flg22 and phytosulfokine | Biophysical Sciences | Jean Greenberg and Bozhi Tian |
| Olivera Velarde, Daniela | American Association of Physicists in Medicine | Medical physics | Medical Physics | Sam Armato |
| Pabon, Elise | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Differential female response to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) | Neurobiology | Harriet deWit |
| Park, Yeonwoo | Samsung Scholarship | Genetics, genomics, and systems biology | Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology | Joe Thornton |
| Patton, Jaeda | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Accessibility of novel phenotypes in ancestral protein sequence space | Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology | Joseph Thornton |
| Peysakhovich, Barbara | Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Hippocampal-prefrontal mechanisms of learning to learn | Computational Neuroscience | David Freedman |
| Randolph, Haley | Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Genetic determinants of inter-individual variation in the dynamic transcriptional innate immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology | Luis Barreiro |
| Reda, Weldeyared | Wadsworth International Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation | Craniofacial ontogeny and function of early humans and extant apes | Integrative Biology | Zeray Alemseged |
| Rhoda, Daniel | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Geometric morphometric methods & evolvability across macroevolutionary timescales | Committee on Evolutionary Biology | Kenneth Angielczyk & David Jablonski |
| Rhodes, Katie | Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award | Mapping functional variation in gene regulatory dynamics during human cardiomyocyte differentiation | Human Genetics | Yoav Gilad |
| Rodriguez, Donald | Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award | Impact of TCR-pMHC affinity on prostate-specific CD4+ T cell development and function | Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program – MD/PhD | Peter Savage |
| Schulz, Grace | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Octopus arm regeneration | Development, Regeneration and Stem Cell Biology | Clifton Ragsdale |
| Sepich, Caraline | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Investigating METTL5-regulated translational changes in hepatocellular carcinoma | Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program – MD/PhD | Chuan He |
| Shelchkova, Natalya | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | The role of thalamus in cortical function and tactile perception | Computational Neuroscience | Sliman Bensmaia |
| Smith, Hadley | American Association of Physicists in Medicine | Medical physics | Medical Physics | Patrick LaRiviere |
| Sorokina, Anastasia | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Using serial electron microscopy to study connections between neurons | Neurobiology | Bobby Kasthuri |
| Sponheim, Caleb | National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Program | Decomposition of movement coding in motor cortex | Computational Neuroscience | Nicholas Hatsopoulos |
| Steiner, Margaret | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | --- | Human Genetics | -- |
| Tamayo, Lizeth | Gates Millenium Scholars Program | Genetic epidemiology and the return of genetic results | Public Health Sciences | Brandon Pierce |
| Tokamov, Sherzod | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Upstream regulation of the Hippo pathway | Development, Regeneration and Stem Cell Biology | Rick Fehon |
| Trinkle, Timothy | Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award | A novel multi-modal, multi-scale imaging pipeline for the validation of diffusion MRI of the brain | Medical Physics | Patrick La Riviere |
| Valbuena, Fernando | HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study | --- | Cell and Molecular Biology | Benjamin Glick |
| Veseli, Iva | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Metabolism reconstruction and microbial 'omics | Biophysical Sciences | Bana Jabri and A. Murat Eren |
| Wong, Caitlin | Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award | Investigating the adaptive role of heat-induced biomolecular condensates in translational regulation | Cell and Molecular Biology | D. Allan Drummond |
| Yamsek, Melvin | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program | Structural and functional characterization of a TMCO1-translocon complex | Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics | Robert Keenan |