Seventy Medical Research Fellows to Embark on a Year in the Lab

Summary

Seventy medical and veterinary students from 37 different schools across the country will be engaging in laboratory research for a full year as participants in the HHMI Medical Research Fellows Program.

Highlights

• The fellows take a break from their medical courses, and spend the year conducting basic, translational or applied biomedical research. The program has funded more than 1,500 students since its start in 1989.
• This year, HHMI received 191 fellowship applications from students representing 68 institutions.
• A record 10 fellows will be funded by HHMI Medical Fellows Program partner organizations this year.

Seventy of the nation’s top medical and veterinary students have been selected to participate in the 26th class of the HHMI Medical Research Fellows Program, a $2.8 million annual initiative to increase the training of future physician-scientists. The students will put their medical studies on hold for one year to conduct intensive, mentored biomedical research at 32 fellowship institutions across the country.

This year, HHMI received 191 fellowship applications from students representing 68 institutions. Each applicant was required to submit a research plan to work in a specific lab with a mentor they had identified.

“Most medical students have worked in labs for one to three months at a time. Just as they start to make progress in their project, they leave the laboratory to return to their studies,” said Helen Hobbs, an HHMI investigator at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, who mentored a medical fellow in her lab over the last year.

2014-2015 Medical Research Fellows
Name	Fellowship Institution	School
Kareem Alazem	Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Leonel Ampie	Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Medical Center	Georgetown University School of Medicine
Adrian Au Funder: FFB	Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Evan Bander	Weill Cornell Medical College	Weill Cornell Medical College
Geetha Bhagavatula	University of Washington	George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
John Bui	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Brandyn Castro	University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine	Boston University School of Medicine
Angela Chang	California Institute of Technology	University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Lucy Cheng	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Christopher Clark	Harvard Medical School	Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
Benjamin Cocanougher	Janelia Farm Research Campus	University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Fernanda Delgado	Harvard Medical School	University of Washington School of Medicine
Tru-Khang Dinh	Harvard Medical School	Harvard Medical School
Harib Ezaldein	Yale School of Medicine	Yale School of Medicine
Christopher Fan	Harvard Medical School	Duke University School of Medicine
Peter Finin Funder: K-RITH	K-RITH	University of Michigan Medical School
David Fischer Funder: PDF	Harvard Medical School	Harvard Medical School
Megan Garland	Stanford University School of Medicine	Stanford University School of Medicine
Philip Gastrell	Duke University School of Medicine	Duke University School of Medicine
Benson George	Stanford University School of Medicine	Stanford University School of Medicine
Jacob Goldberg	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Lauren Griggs Funder: BWF	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine	Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
Allison Hamilos	Harvard Medical School	Harvard Medical School
David Huang	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
George Huang	Harvard Medical School	Harvard Medical School
Michael Hughes	Baylor College of Medicine	University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Syed Khalid	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Sattar Khoshkhoo Funder: CURE	University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine	University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Jennifer Kim	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Young Jin Kim	Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons	Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Adam Kundishora Funder: CURE	Yale School of Medicine	Yale School of Medicine
Jacob Kushkuley	University of Massachusetts Medical School	University of Massachusetts Medical School
Vinicius Ladeira Craveiro Funder: OREF	Hospital for Special Surgery	Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Young Lee	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Ann Liu	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Shawn Loder	University of Michigan Medical School	University of Michigan Medical School
Elizabeth Mathieu	University of Wisconsin-Madison	University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Raaj Mehta Funder: AGA	Harvard Medical School	Harvard Medical School
Clinton Morgan	Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Brian Nuyen	University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine	University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Daniel Oh	Harvard Medical School	Harvard Medical School
Michael Oh	Yale School of Medicine	Yale School of Medicine
Patricia Ojeda	The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine	University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
Ryan Park	Harvard Medical School	Harvard Medical School
Kunal Patel	University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine	Weill Cornell Medical College
Mira Patel	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine	The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Stephanie Patterson	Duke University School of Medicine	Duke University School of Medicine
Daniel Pipilas	Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Avanthi Raghavan	Harvard Medical School	Harvard Medical School
Katherine Ransohoff	Stanford University School of Medicine	Stanford University School of Medicine
Anne Rohlfing	Duke University School of Medicine	Duke University School of Medicine
Zahra Sayyid	Stanford University School of Medicine	Stanford University School of Medicine
Udit Singhal	University of Michigan Medical School	Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
Jeffrey SoRelle	University of Texas Southwestern Medical School	University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Jessica St. Laurent	University of Washington	Tufts University School of Medicine
Tin-Yun Tang	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
Montreh Tavakkoli	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Madina Tugizova	Stanford University School of Medicine	Stanford University School of Medicine
Chioma Udemgba	Duke University School of Medicine	Duke University School of Medicine
Aaron Vassall	Yale School of Medicine	Yale School of Medicine
Erik Velez Funder: SIRF	Harvard Medical School	University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Qing Yu Weng	Harvard Medical School	Harvard Medical School
Danielle Wickman	K-RITH	David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Julia Wiedmeier	Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine	University of Utah School of Medicine
Nasser Yaghi	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	Baylor College of Medicine
Wai-Ying Yau	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Zachary Yochum	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hosniya Zarabi	Janelia Farm Research Campus	Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Andrew Zheng Funder: FFB	Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons	Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Jeffrey Zimering	Harvard Medical School	University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

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