ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
FRIDAY, MAY 10
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MANDARIN
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2024
9 AM
DAVID GEFFEN HALL LINCOLN CENTER NEW YORK CITY
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
PROCESSIONAL
Performed by
Annie Chang
2nd Year
Joshua Mathew
2nd Year
Rebecca Rosenzweig
1st Year
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
GRAND MARSHAL
Staci Leisman, MD, FASN
Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine and Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
PROCESSION MARSHALS
Stephanie Autenrieth
Senior Associate Dean for Enrollment Services
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Arjana Habili
Program Coordinator, Curricular Affairs & Program Administration
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michael Herscher, MD
Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Horatio (Teddy) Holzer, MD
Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ann-Gel S. Palermo, DrPH, MPH
Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Associate Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Roland Pinzon
Program Manager
MS in Biomedical Data Science & MS in Biomedical Science
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Cristian Rosario
Program Manager
PhD Programs in Biomedical Sciences and Neuroscience
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Stephanie L. Wolfe, PhD
Program Manager, Clinical Research Education Program
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
ORDER OF PROCESSION
Candidates for Degrees
Faculty
Platform Party
Guests are asked to remain seated during the Processional.
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
PRESIDING
Dennis S. Charney, MD
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai President for Academic Affairs
Mount Sinai Health System
GREETINGS
Brendan Carr, MD, MA, MS
Chief Executive Officer
Mount Sinai Health System
Richard A. Friedman
Co-Chairman, Boards of Trustees
Mount Sinai Health System
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSES
Kenneth L. Davis, MD
Executive Vice Chairman, Mount Sinai Health System Boards of Trustees
PhD STUDENT SPEAKER
Sally Elizabeth Claridge
MD STUDENT SPEAKER
Candida Marie Camacho Damian
AWARDING OF HONORARY DEGREES
DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS
Kenneth L. Davis, MD
Executive Vice Chairman, Mount Sinai Health System Boards of Trustees
Citation by
Dennis S. Charney, MD
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai President for Academic Affairs
Mount Sinai Health System
Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Executive Vice Chairman of the Mount Sinai Health System Boards of Trustees, is widely recognized as a visionary leader who guided the institution on a dramatic growth trajectory. Dr. Davis served as Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai Health System and its predecessor from 2003 to 2023. He was named President and CEO of Mount Sinai in 2003, when he and Peter W. May, then Chairman of the Boards of Trustees, launched what has been characterized as one of the largest financial turnarounds in academic medicine, and grew the institution in both scope and ambition into a new era of innovation in collaborative research, education, and clinical care.
In 2013, the Mount Sinai Health System was formed by the combination of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Continuum Health Partners, becoming one of the largest nonprofit systems in the country now with 11 billion in revenue, 45,00 employees, eight hospitals, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing, and more than 410 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida. Dr. Davis led a philanthropic campaign that reached its goal of $1.6 billion, including a nearly $200 million gift from Carl C. Icahn, a longtime supporter and Trustee for whom Mount Sinai’s medical school was renamed in 2012, and the Hess family who have contributed over a quarter of a billion dollars.
Dr. Davis is frequently consulted by government officials, thought leaders, and television and print journalists on issues in science, medicine, and health care. He worked with senior officials of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help shape federal payment policy and publishes his own thought leadership op-ed pieces in national and local publications. He encouraged his leadership team to speak out in their fields of expertise, as well. He is a frequent speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival and has been a trustee of the Aspen Institute since 2014.
$ before 11 billion?
Dr. Davis attended Mount Sinai School of Medicine and received the Harold Elster Memorial Award for highest academic achievement in the school’s second graduating class. After completing a residency in psychiatry and fellowship in pharmacology at Stanford University Medical Center, Dr. Davis won a career development award from the Veterans Administration to pursue research in cholinergic mechanisms in neuropsychiatric diseases. Upon joining Mount Sinai, he became Chief of Psychiatry at the Bronx Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center. He launched Mount Sinai’s research program in the biology of schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics.
Dr. Davis spent 15 years as Chair of Mount Sinai’s Department of Psychiatry. He was the first Director for many of the institution’s research entities, including Mount Sinai’s National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, the Schizophrenia Biological Research Center at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Silvio Conte Neuroscience Center to study schizophrenia, and the Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment. Additionally, he received one of the first and largest program project grants for Alzheimer’s disease research from the NIH.
Dr. Davis’s groundbreaking work in Alzheimer’s disease research opened new avenues in the relief of symptoms and led to the approval of the first generation of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease, and revolutionized Alzheimer’s clinical trial design by developing the Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale, the most popular measure used to characterize the noncognitive and cognitive behavioral dysfunctions manifested by Alzheimer’s patients. Dr. Davis's research — including more than 500 papers published in peer-reviewed journals — led to the FDA’s approval of three of the first four drugs approved for Alzheimer’s disease. His work in schizophrenia led to a new understanding of the role of myelination, white matter, and oligodendrocytes in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, opening up an entirely new way of viewing and studying this disease. That work, seen as revolutionary just a few years ago, has since been widely replicated.
In addition to his role as CEO, Dr. Davis served as Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 2003 to 2007. He served as President of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in 2006 and has received its Joel Elkes Research Award, Daniel H. Efron Research Award, and Paul Hoch Distinguished Service Award, among others. The American Psychiatric Association has honored Dr. Davis’s work, and in 2002 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science. Among his many awards and prizes are the 2009 George H. W. Bush ’48 Lifetime of Leadership Award from Yale University, an honor given to Yale alumni athletes who make significant breakthroughs in their professions, the VA’s career development award, and the A. E. Bennett Award of the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
AWARDING OF HONORARY DEGREES
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
Charles M. Rice, PhD
Professor and Head
Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease
The Rockefeller University
Citation by Ana Fernandez-Sesma, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Charles M. Rice, PhD, is the Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Chair in Virology at The Rockefeller University, where he also serves as Head of the Laboratory for Virology and Infectious Disease. He is one of the world’s most accomplished virologists and a prominent figure in research on members of the Flaviviridae, including hepatitis C virus (HCV). He is the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Millions of people around the world are infected with hepatitis C or hepatitis B viruses, which cause liver cancer and liver failure. Meanwhile, other RNA viruses, such as Zika, yellow fever, dengue, chikungunya, and SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, cause significant morbidity and mortality. Dr. Rice and his laboratory team are focused on changing this.
Dr. Rice and his team work to understand virus replication and innate immune responses that limit infection and are also developing new in vitro culture and animal models — including the first infectious molecular clone of the HCV virus, an essential tool for future studies — to gain a better understanding of HCV replication and evaluate antiviral efficacy to facilitate research into this important human pathogen. This and other work has been central to the development of antiviral drugs that are now widely used to cure HCV. Because a vaccine is still sorely needed, Dr. Rice’s group has established the first immunocompetent mouse model of hepacivirus infection, paving the way toward vaccine development and studies of hepacivirus-associated liver cancer.
Dr. Rice’s group is also leveraging their human liver mouse models and new in vitro culture methods to study hepatitis B virus (HBV), which causes cirrhosis as well as liver cancer that is often resistant to curative treatment. Dr. Rice’s work is revealing new strategies to target weaknesses in the virus, and continue to develop new technologies, such as 3D and induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cultures, to study HBV, HCV, and other viruses. They are also using their human liver mouse models to study the roles of diet and human genetics on the development of non-infectious causes of liver disease.
Other work of the Rice lab has focused on viruses of global health concern, such as dengue, yellow fever, Zika, chikungunya, and coronaviruses. The lab also investigates the mechanisms of attenuation of the yellow fever vaccine, and the human genetic causes of rare but serious disease that can occur after vaccination.
Dr. Rice received his bachelor’s degree from University of California Davis in 1974 and earned his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1981. From 1986 to 2000, Dr. Rice was a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Rice has co-authored more than 500 articles in the field of virology, serves as a reviewer for numerous journals, is a past President of the American Society for Virology, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he is the recipient of many other prizes and honors, including the M.W. Beijernick, Dautrebande, Robert Koch, InBev Baillet-Latour prizes, and the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award.
AWARDING OF HONORARY DEGREES
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
Alice Y. Ting, PhD
Professor of Genetics, Biology, and by courtesy, Chemistry
Stanford University
Citation by
Eric J. Nestler, MD, PHD
Director, Friedman Brain Institute
Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs
Nash Family Professor, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alice Y. Ting, PhD, is Taiwanese-born American chemist and professor of genetics, biology, and, by courtesy, chemistry at Stanford University. Dr. Ting’s work probes and elucidates molecular and cellular networks and is broadening our understanding of signaling in the mitochondria and in the mammalian brain, has led to the development of lifesaving drugs, and has been the foundation of hundreds of important and pioneering research studies into human health. She is a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub investigator and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Ting’s laboratory at Stanford University develops molecular technologies for improving the study of biochemical events in living cells and neurons. She pioneered “proximity labeling” for mapping proteomes, transcriptomes, and interactomes with nanometer precision in living cells and animals — which, for the first time, allowed scientists to understand how proteins and RNA are organized in space and time to give rise to the organelle function and molecular machines that execute complex biological processes. She engineered enzymes like APEX and TurboID, which have allowed scientists to map spatial proteomes, transcriptomes, and interactomes with nanometer precision. They have successfully applied this method to map the proteomes of membraneless organelles, dissect transient protein complexes, and create a spatial map of the human transcriptome.
Additionally, Dr. Ting and her team have developed scalable, single-cell molecular recording technologies, including calcium integrators and transcriptional recorders of protein-protein interactions, leading to discoveries such as a new striatal cell type involved in avoidance behavior. Dr. Ting’s contributions also include fluorophore ligases, monovalent streptavidin, small monovalent quantum dots, and genetically encoded protein tags for electron microscopy. They have developed methods for fluorescent tagging of cellular proteins, spatial mapping of cellular proteomes and transcriptomes, and molecular recording of calcium spikes in the RNA of living cells.
The technologies Dr. Ting and her team have developed capitalize on capabilities in protein engineering, directed evolution, chemical synthesis, proteomics, and computational protein design. With a long-standing interest in neuroscience and mitochondria, Dr. Ting and her laboratory strive to apply their chemistry-based technologies to visualize, study, and manipulate molecules, pathways, and circuits that are critical to the functioning of mitochondria and the brain.
A dedicated teacher and mentor, Dr. Ting has worked with dozens of former PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom are now leaders in biotech and pharma. She served on MIT’s Diversity Committee for more than eight years, where she worked to counter unconscious bias in faculty hiring and the roll-out of flexible childcare support for faculty, postdocs, and students. She is renowned for fostering a safe, supportive, inclusive, unbiased, and rigorous training environment for her interdisciplinary team of trainees from diverse backgrounds.
Dr. Ting was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States when she was three years old, growing up in Texas and attending the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS). She received her Bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Harvard University in 1996, working with Nobel laureate E.J. Corey, and her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000, working with Peter G. Schultz. Dr. Ting completed her postdoctoral fellowship at University of California San Diego with 2008 Nobel Laureate Roger Y. Tsien.
Among Dr. Ting’s many awards and honors are the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, ACS Arthur Cope Scholar Award, McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award, and Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry, TR35 Award, and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
AWARDING OF HONORARY DEGREES
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
Feng Zhang, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Core Member, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience, MIT
Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering, MIT
Citation by Alexander Charney, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Co-Director, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine
Executive Director of the Blau Center
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Feng Zhang, PhD, is a molecular biologist focused on developing and applying novel molecular technologies for studying and improving human health. Considered to be one of the most inventive life scientists in the world, Dr. Zhang’s studies explore biological diversity with the goals of understanding nature, and discovering systems and processes within nature that may be harnessed through bioengineering.
Dr. Zhang played an integral role in the development of two revolutionary molecular technologies: optogenetics, which lets researchers control neurons with light to learn more about how the brain works, and CRISPR-Cas9-based gene editing, which allows researchers to make precise changes to the DNA in living cells. He and his team have adapted multiple other CRISPR systems for use as genome and transcriptome engineering tools, as well as developed a number of applications of CRISPR systems including high-throughput genome screening, gene insertion, and detection of nucleic acids.
In 2023, the first CRISPR-based therapeutic, Casgevy, was approved for treatment of sickle-cell disease, and there are many clinical trials on-going to test other CRISPRbased therapeutics. In addition to therapeutic use, his lab’s tools, which he is renowned for making widely available, are also being used broadly to accelerate basic research as well as being deployed in other biotechnological applications. Dr. Zhang’s long-term goal is to develop novel therapeutic strategies for complex diseases without a single underlying genetic change. Tackling brain diseases, specifically, has been a goal since college, when he saw friends suffering from severe mental illness.
Born in China, Dr. Zhang emigrated to the United States in 1993 at the age of 11. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry and physics from Harvard College and his PhD in chemistry from Stanford University.
Dr. Zhang is a core member of the Broad Institute, an Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, the James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as a fellow in the National Academy of Inventors.
He is the recipient of many awards, including the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Tang Prize, the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists, the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, the Lemelson-MIT Prize, the Keio Medical Science Prize, and the Lounsbery Award. He has also received technology innovation awards from the Paul G. Allen Family, McKnight, New York Stem Cell, and Damon Runyon foundations.
AWARDING OF DEGREES
OATH FOR DOCTORAL CANDIDATES
Basil G. Hanss, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Student and Postdoctoral Affairs
Associate Dean for Graduate School Well-being and Resilience
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
PRESENTATION OF DEGREE CANDIDATES
Basil G. Hanss, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Student and Postdoctoral Affairs
Associate Dean for Graduate School Well-being and Resilience
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
HOODING OF DEGREE CANDIDATES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE
Matthew J. O’Connell, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for PhD Programs
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Professor, Department of Oncological Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN CLINICAL RESEARCH
Janice L. Gabrilove, MD, FACP
James F. Holland Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Education and Training, The Tisch Cancer institute
Director, Clinical Research Education Program
Co-Director, Patient Oriented Research Training and Leadership Program
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Dissertation Advisors
AWARDING OF DEGREES
OATH FOR MEDICAL DEGREE CANDIDATES
Rachel Solomon, MD
Associate Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education and Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
PRESENTATION OF DEGREE CANDIDATES
Tara K. Cunningham, EdD, MS
Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Associate Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
HOODING OF DEGREE CANDIDATES
DUAL DEGREE: DOCTOR OF MEDICINE AND DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (MD/PhD)
Talia H. Swartz, MD, PhD
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Senior Associate Dean for MD-PhD Education
Associate Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinaii
DUAL DEGREE: DOCTOR OF MEDICINE AND MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MD/MPH)
Nils Hennig, MD, PhD, MPH
Director, Master of Public Health Program
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinaii
DUAL DEGREE: DOCTOR OF MEDICINE AND MASTER OF SCIENCE IN CLINICAL RESEARCH (MD/MSCR)
Janice L. Gabrilove, MD, FACP
James F. Holland Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Education and Training, The Tisch Cancer institute
Director, Clinical Research Education Program
Co-Director, Patient Oriented Research Training and Leadership Program
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE
Rainier P. Soriano, MD
Senior Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs
Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education and Brookdale
Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Valerie Parkas, MD
Senior Associate Dean of Admissions and Recruitment
Professor, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Medical Education and Samuel
Bronfman Department of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinaii
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
AWARDING OF DIPLOMAS
Marta Filizola, PhD
Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Sharon & Frederick A. Klingenstein-Nathan G. Kase, MD Professor Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David C. Thomas, MD, MHPE
Dean for Medical Education
Chair, Leni and Peter May Department of Medical Education
Professor, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine and Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Assisted by Alexis Colvin, MD
Dean for Alumni Affairs
Professor, Department of Orthopedics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD
Director, Friedman Brain Institute
Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs
Nash Family Professor, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
RECESSIONAL
Guests are asked to remain seated until the Recessional is completed.
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE
Dissertation Advisors
Bremy Alburquerque
Genetic basis of emerging antibiotic resistance during clinical treatment
Songhee Back
Neural and behavioral computations of social behavior in autism spectrum disorder and related conditions
Sarah M. Banker
Neural and Behavioral Computations of Social Interaction in Autism Spectrum and Related Disorders
James Keith Carter^ Distinct Contributions of Protocadherin 7 in Chronic Liver Disease and Liver Cancer
Harm van Bakel, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
James Manfredi, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Jennifer Foss-Feig, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Andrew T. Chan
Region-specific microglial responses to peripheral influenza infection
Daniel M. Charytonowicz^ Integrated Computational Analysis of Cancer Cell Plasticity: Merging Machine Learning, Accelerated Computing, and Large-Scale Data Synthesis for Translational Insights into Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Sally Elizabeth Claridge
Development of a functional genomics pipeline for precision oncology
Scott Friedman, MD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Robert Krauss, PhD
Department of Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology
Anne Schaefer, MD, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Robert Sebra, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Zhen-Qiang Pan, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Benjamin Hopkins, PhD
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Weill Cornell Medical College
^ MD/PhD
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE
Dissertation Advisors
Evan Cody
DAF (CD55) Dependent Regulation of B Cell Memory
Phillip Cohen^
Virology at Single Cell Resolution: Challenges and Opportunities for Single Cell RNA Sequencing in Studies of Viral Infection
Anisha Cooke
Investigating ATRX In Frame Fusions in Neuroblastoma cell states
Alanna Cameron Cote
Computational approaches to gene expression regulation in health and disease
David Dominguez-Sola, MD, PhD Department of Oncological Sciences
Peter Heeger, MD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Brad Rosenberg, MD, PhD Department of Microbiology
Jean Lim, PhD Department of Microbiology
Emily Bernstein, PhD Department of Oncological Sciences
Alexander Charney, MD, PhD Department of Psychiatry
Laura Huckins, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Winston Hirschler Cuddleston
Adenosine-to-inosine RNA editing in the brain: developmental dynamics, cellular specificity, and cis-genetic regulation
Donald Doanman^
Single Cell Analysis of Acute and Latent HIV Infection using Novel Reporter Systems
Zhe Dong
Development and dissemination of novel open-source Miniscope technology
Towfique Raj, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Susie Feng
Progressive spatial memory deficits and circuit dysfunction in a mouse model of chronic temporal lobe epilepsy
Michael Brian Fernando
Cell-type-specific functional impact of rare neurexin-1 genetic deletions
Dissertation Advisors
Tristan Shuman, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
^ MD/PhD
Benjamin Chen, MD, PhD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Denise Cai, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Jennifer Megan Fredericks
Chemogenetic modulation of amygdala-ventrolateral prefrontal cortex communication in probabilistic reinforcement reward learning
Justin Frere^
Leveraging the golden hamster model of respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection to define short- and long-term consequences of disease
Amy Frick
The VGF Protein in the Neuroendocrine Hypothalamus
Paul Slesinger, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Kristen Brennand, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Peter Rudebeck, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Jean Lim, PhD
Department of Microbiology
Rollie Fitzgerald Hampton II^
Structure and Function of Pancreatic Neural Circuitry in Obesity and Diabetes using Mouse Models
Alicia Ho
Regional expression of secreted WNT inhibitors regulates hair follicle patterning and regenerative activity
^ MD/PhD
Stephen Salton, MD, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Scott Russo, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Sarah Stanley, MBBCh, PhD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Sarah Millar, PhD
Department of Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE
Dissertation Advisors
Michael Horesh^
Gain-of-Function Variants in JAK1 cause Autoimmunity, Atopy, Colitis, and/or Dermatitis (JAACD Syndrome)
DeAnalisa Jones^
Modeling the ultrastructural features of ventricular cardiomyocytes: Implications for Ca2+ signaling in heart failure
Kaustubh Kulkarni^
A Computational Psychiatry Approach
Toward Momentary Craving
Rachel Levantovsky^
Advances in understanding IBD pathogenesis across populations via multimodal data integration
Michael B. Leventhal
“Developmental mismatch” as a driver of social deficits induced by juvenile social isolation
Lora E. Liharska
Identification of molecular relationships between living and postmortem brain tissue
Katherine E. Lindblad
Notch1 Activation Induces a Sexually Dimorphic Immune Evasion Program in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Abigail Lubin
From drug to death: mechanistic insight into teriflunomide-induced cell death after PTEN loss
Dusan Bogunovic, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Louise Malle^
Down syndrome: a paradox of immune suppression and autoimmunity
Eric Sobie, PhD
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Xiaosi Gu, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Daniela Schiller, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Judy Cho, MD
Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans
Popper Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine
Hirofumi Morishita, MD, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Alexander Charney, MD, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Amaya Lujambio Goizueta, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Valerie J. Marallano
Investigating the Effects of Hypoxia on the Tumor Biology of Glioblastoma
Katherine Meckel
Interrogating Potential Roles of the Gut
Microbiome in Modulating CocaineInduced Plasticity
David T. Melnekoff
Using genomics for patient stratification, treatment prediction, and understanding determinants of CAR T-Cell Therapy response in Multiple Myeloma
Jarvier Nadir Mohammed
Investigating mechanisms of BAX activation and its pharmacological modulation within the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis
Temidayo Orederu
Neural Processing of Fear and its Role in PTSD: From Basic to Naturalistic Approaches
Dissertation Advisors
Dusan Bogunovic, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Jeremiah Faith, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Roland Friedel, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Drew Kiraly, MD, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Samir Parekh, MD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Jerry Chipuk, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Daniela Schiller, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
George Huntley, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Aster Quinby Perkins
Erin Rich, MD, PhD
Ramon Parsons, MD, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Decision-making in the context of multiattribute options
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
^ MD/PhD
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE
Dissertation Advisors
Luisanna Victoria Pia
Spatial Functional Genomics of Ovarian Cancer
Amara Luisa Plaza-Jennings^
Cell-type-specific 3D genomic and transcriptomic alterations in the HIVinfected human brain
Brian Brown, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Schahram Akbarian, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
George Huntley, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Tamar Plitt
Cooperation among genotoxic bacteria accelerates tumorigenesis in a mouse model of colon carcinogenesis
Samuel Powell^
Identification and Functional Characterization of Neuronal SubtypeSpecific 3D Genome Structures Mapping to Schizophrenia Risk Loci
Jeremiah Faith, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Schahram Akbarian, MD, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Kristen Brennand, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Gabrielle Price^
5-ALA-Mediated Photodynamic Therapy in Combination with MEK inhibitors for the Treatment of H3K27-Mutated Diffuse Midline Glioma
Taylor K. Pullinger
Intra- and Inter-Individual Cardiomyocyte Heterogeneity Impacts Arrhythmia Risk
Richard Quintana Feliciano
Targeting Burkholderia cenocepacia DNA adenine methyltransferases
Constantinos Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD
Department of Neurosurgery
Dolores Hambardzumyan, PhD, MBA
Department of Oncological Sciences
Eric Sobie, PhD
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Aneel Aggarwal, PhD
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Tanni Rahman
Molecular mechanisms underlying impulsivity and heroin self-administration in an animal model of depression
Rohana Ramalingam
The Regulation of DNA Double Stranded Break End Resection
Dan Fu Ruan
Understanding the heterogeneity of alloreactive natural killer cell function in kidney transplantation
Christie Bao Thu Ryba^
Altered transcription factor dynamics in PBAF-deficient melanoma
Matthew Schafer
Mapping the social landscape
Megan Catherine Schwarz
The role of PRDM15 in HCC
Carina Pek Jean Seah^
Common genetic variants impact molecular stress response in the brain
Randal Alexander Serafini^
Studies on Epigenetic and Transcriptional Regulation of Peripheral Nerve Injury in Mesocorticolimbic Circuitry
Joseph Simon IV
Integration of social information in the frontal cortex during decision-making in rhesus macaques
Camille Spencer-Salmon^
Dynamical foundations of task-related computations
^ MD/PhD
Dissertation Advisors
Yasmin Hurd, PhD
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Matthew O'Connell, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Amir Horowitz, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Emily Bernstein, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Daniela Schiller, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Ernesto Guccione, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Laura Huckins, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Venetia Zachariou, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Erin Rich, MD, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Kanaka Rajan, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE
Dissertation Advisors
Matthew Paul Spindler^
Defining Innate Immune Responses to the Human Gut Microbiota from Phylum to Strains
Lauren Stalbow^
A genotype first approach to diabetes
Christian Stevens^
Viruses are the Best Cell Biologists: Viral Engineering to Deliver Gene Editing Tools and Interrogate SARS-CoV-2 Entry
Andrew Frank Stewart
Identification and characterization of substrates of postsynaptic protein dopaminylation
Hayley J. Strasburger
Mechanisms of microglia-mediated regulation of striatal neuron activity
Emily May Teichman
Multimodal Targeting of Neuronal HCN Channels for Antidepressant Drug Discovery
Angelica M. Minier-Toribio
Multilevel Signaling of ApproachAvoidance Decisions Sensitive to Stress & Drug Insults
Denis Torre
Investigating transcriptome dynamics in early mammalian development
Jeremiah Faith, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Ruth Loos, PhD
Department of Environmental Medicine & Public Health
Benhur Lee, MD
Department of Microbiology
Ian Maze, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Anne Schaefer, MD, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Jian Jin, PhD Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Carole Morel, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Eric Nestler, MD, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Ernesto Guccione, PhD
Department of Oncological Sciences
Robert Sebra, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
^ MD/PhD
Kayla Townsley
Dynamic regulation of psychiatric risk loci in neurons
Michelle Tran^
Dissecting Innate Immune Mechanisms of Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Bladder Cancer
Skyler Andrew Uhl
Cellular conflicts between RNA virus and host biology
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Camille Cassiopeia Van Neste* Advances in Bioreactor Design and Multi-Dimensional Analysis for Assessing Maturation Phenotype of Human Engineered Cardiac Tissues
Ethan Christopher Veit
Evolutionary analysis of mammalian STAT2 susceptibility to flavivirus NS5 antagonism
Julia Velez
Discovery and characterization of novel lysine methyltransferase-targeting PROTAC degraders
Yang Xu
Therapeutic Modulation of Endothelialto-Mesenchymal Transition in Vascular Pathobiology
Dissertation Advisors
Alison Goate, DPhil
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Laura Huckins, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Jean Lim, PhD
Department of Microbiology
Benjamin tenOever, PhD
Department of Microbiologyy
Kevin Costa, PhD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Matthew Evans, PhD
Department of Microbiology
Jian Jin, PhD
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Kevin Costa, PhD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Jason Kovacic, MD, PhD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
^ MD/PhD
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCE
Dissertation Advisors
Hannah Elizabeth Young
Intrinsic contexts influence genetic regulation of gene expression in the frontal cortex
Yosif Zaki
Aversive experience drives offline ensemble reactivation to link memories across days
Nicole Zatorski^
Integrating machine learning and protein structural features to predict drug toxicityy
Zachary Robert Zeisler
The Primate Amygdala: A comparative analysis of anatomy and physiolog
William Zhao^
Cellular and spatial map of lung adenocarcinoma reveals TP53associated tissue remodeling
Gregory Zilberg
Atypical Mechanisms of Activation of Understudied Aminergic G ProteinCoupled Receptors
Paul O'Reilly, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Laura Huckins, PhD Department of Psychiatry
Denise Cai, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Avner Schlessinger, PhD
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN CLINICAL RESEARCH
Dissertation Advisors
Adolfo Sebastian Aleman
Mechanisms of microglia-mediated regulation of striatal neuron activity
Doaa Alsaleh
Long-Term Outcomes After Multiple Vessel Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Comparison Between Multiple Arterial Versus Single Arterial Grafting in Patients with Major Comorbid Conditions
Anas Hasan A. Alzahrani
Optimal interventional approach in ischemic cardiomyopathy for patients with multivessel coronary artery disease
Samir Parekh, MD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Natalia Egorova, PhD, MPH
Department of Population Health Science and Policy
Peter Rudebeck, PhD
Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Alexander Tsankov, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Daniel Wacker, PhD
Department of Pharmacological Sciences
Turner Baker
A Novel Surgical Device to Deliver Focal Hypothermia following Minimally Invasive Surgery for Intracranial Hemorrhage
Tina Chen
Extracellular Vesicles and Particles (EVPs) from Tissue Microenvironment and Matching Biofluids as exRNA Biomarkers for Liquid-biopsy Applications
Natalia Egorova, PhD, MPH
Department of Population Health Science and Policy
Shinobu Itagaki, MD, MSc
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Christopher Kellner, MD
Department of Neurosurgery
Jia Li
Examine the trajectory of health-related quality of life and cognitive ability, and the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among COVID-19 patients: longitudinal and cross sectional studies
Carlos Cordon-Carlo, MD, PhD
Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans
Popper Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine
Navneet Dogra, PhD
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Minal Kale, MD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
Liangyuan Hu, PhD
Department of Biostatistics
Rutgers School of Public Health
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN CLINICAL RESEARCH
Dissertation Advisors
Weixin Li
Physical Activity, Cognitive Function, and Dementia among Older Adults in the US: Cross-sectional, Systematic Review, and Modeling Studies
Ning Ma
Multilevel Signaling of ApproachAvoidance Decisions Sensitive to Stress & Drug|Insults
Bian Liu, PhD
Department of Population Health Science and Policy
Yan Li, PhD
Department of Population Health Science and Policy
Andrea Branch, PhD
Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE
Ava Jeanette Adler
Sofia Ahsanuddin
Muhammad Mujtaba Ali*
David William Allely
Lily Anne Ardente
Illya Aronskyy
Amina Avril
Arman Ryan Azad
Bryana Devlin Banashefski
Joshua David Barlow
Rebecca Beatrice Baron
Nestor Javier Bedoya
Caroline Maisie Benson
Suzannah Leigh Bergstein
Daniel D. Bu*
Liam Ross Butler
James Keith Carter^
Zakaria M Chakrani
Danielle Chaluts
Michael Chang
Logan Daniel Cho
Brennan Chu
Elizabeth Mowry Clifton
Paige Elizabeth Cloonan
Phillip Cohen^
Yhan Emid Colon Iban
Tyler J. D'ovidio
Dante Ghassan Dahabreh
Candida Marie Camacho Damian
Alexander Samuel Dash*
Calista Lynda Dominy
Jonathan Tyler Dullea
Annalise Klára Eger
Nicola Ann Feldman
James Harrison Fleming
Miriam Frisch**
Mariely Garcia
Jennifer Katharine Gates
Jack Emil Geduldig
† Posthumous Degree
* MD/MSCR
** MD/MPH
^ MD/PhD
Kyle Monroe Gibson*
Shivee Gilja
Anisha Mahalya Gogerly-Moragoda
Rachel Gita Gologorsky
Miguel Enrique Gomez
Shouri Venkata Gottiparthi
Kevin Michael Griffee**
Aliza Savin Gross
Benjamin David Gross
Philip Henson
Gabrielle Isabella Hernaiz-De Jesus
Michael Matthew Herrera
Skylar Michelle Hess
Eugene Ivan Hrabarchuk
Sidra Zeba Ibad
Suvruta Srisayi Iruvanti
Yonatan Israel
Suraj Kevin Jaladanki
Jillian Henry Keegan
Rebecca Lilli Kellner
Calla Kim Khilnani
Sonia Gita Khurana
Spencer Harrison Kiehm*
Madeline Heejae Kim*
Krsna Kim Kothari
Arvind Kumar*
Colin David Lamb
Patrick Nils Lasowski
Riva P. Letchinger*
Micah Levy
Thomas Morgan Li
Helen Liu
Isabel Cristina Lopera
Christine Alexis Lopez
Adam Lupicki †
Louise Malle^
Naoum Fares Marayati
Christina Lauren Marshall
Lily McCarthy
*
**
^
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
DOCTOR OF MEDICINE
Stephen Edward McCroskery
Paulos Mengsteab
James H. Meyers
Alexandra Mills
Sarah Anne Nathaniel
Ted Nnamno Obi
Tonia Omotola Ogundipe
Oge C. Onuh
Benjamin Henry Oseroff
Yeji Park
Bhavana Niranjan Patil
Megan Elizabeth Paul
Charlotte Rose Pierce
Nicholas Louca Pitaro
Amara Luisa Plaza-Jennings^
Samuel Powell^
Addison Quinones
Vignesh Rajasekaran
Emma Maud Reford
Rishab Rajan Revankar
Harley Lauren Roberts
Andrew John Rosowicz
Christina Paulina Rossitto
Nikita Roy
Christie Bao Thu Ryba^
Mia Malak Saade
Julian Sackey
Nathaniel Locke Saffran
Jay R. Sanghvi
Remington Runnfeldt
Schuemann Schneider
Dawi Shin
Francesca Marie Silvestri
Zay Friedman Smolar
Matthew Paul Spindler^
Jason Benjamin Storch
Daniela Ines Suarez-Rebling
Sweta Sudhir
Shumayl Syed
Justin Evan Tang
Shelly Siyuan Teng*
Serena Ravi Tolani
Connor Andrew Tukel
Claire Ufongene
Stephanie Urena
Camille Cassiopeia Van Neste^
Roshan Pravinkumar Vasoya
Amey Vrudhula
Brett Stephen Weingart
Christopher Andrew White
Amber Tiffany Wolf
Emily Ling Xu
Brandon Yeshoua
Stephanie Ying
Stephen Yoffie
Dave Mina Youssef
Alexis Lynn Zachem
MEDICAL SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
BURTON DRAYER PRIZE IN RADIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL IMAGING
Benjamin David Gross
DR. HAROLD LAMPORT BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH PRIZE
Sofia Ahsanuddin
IRWIN GELERNT, MD, AWARD FOR SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
Nestor Javier Bedoya
PORTAL THESIS AWARD IN CLINICAL RESEARCH
Alexander Samuel Dash
THE LEONARD TOW HUMANISM IN MEDICINE STUDENT AWARD
Candida Marie Camacho Damian
Emily Ling Xu
USPHS PHYSICIANS PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH AWARD
Krishna Patel
MEDICAL EDUCATION AWARDS
BARRY STIMMEL AWARD FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION
Nestor Javier Bedoya
DR. DAVID K. MCDONOGH AWARD FOR DIVERSITY IN MEDICAL EDUCATION
Ted Nnamno Obi
HAROLD ELSTER MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR CLINICAL ACUMEN
Suvruta Srisayi Iruvanti
JAMES FELT AWARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL AND RACIAL JUSTICE
Emily Ling Xu
THE JUDITH AND NATHAN KASE HUMANITIES IN MEDICINE PRIZE
Rebecca Lilli Kellner
Amber Tiffany Wolf
PATRICIA LEVINSON AWARD FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND INCLUSION OF WOMEN IN MEDICINE
Danielle Chaluts GRADUATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
GRADUATION ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
MEDICAL SCHOOL ACADEMIC AWARDS
DR. ALAN F. GUTTMACHER OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY PRIZE
Alexandra Mills
DR. HOWARD RAPPAPORT PEDIATRIC AWARD
Liam Ross Butler
DR. JOSEPH R. JAGUST ANESTHESIOLOGY AWARD
Dawi Shin
DR. M. RALPH KAUFMAN PSYCHIATRY PRIZE
Candida Marie Camacho Damian
Tonia Omotola Ogundipe
DR. MORRIS B. BENDER AWARD IN CLINICAL NEUROLOGY
Emily Ling Xu
GEORGE JAMES EPIDEMIOLOGY AWARD
Kevin Michael Griffee
JEFFREY MODELL CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY PRIZE
Louise Malle
MRS. DAVID A. DREILING SURGERY PRIZE IN MEMORY OF HER MOTHER, FLORENCE L. OPPENHEIMER
Ava Jeanette Adler
STEVEN B. TAMARIN, MD, MEMORIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FAMILY MEDICINE
Harley Lauren Roberts
THE BARRY COLLER AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN CLINICAL MEDICINE
Jonathan Tyler Dullea
THE MILTON C. ENGEL, MD, AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN GERIATRIC MEDICINE
Krsna Kim Kothari
Emily Ling Xu
GRADUATE SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE
Michelle Tran
THE ARTHUR CEDERBAUM MENTORING BY A GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
Angelica M. Minier-Toribio
Megan Catherine Schwarz
AWARD FOR SCIENCE ADVOCACY
Michael Brian Fernando
EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC HEALTH
Miriam Frisch
MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAM (MSTP) AWARD
Jakleen Lee
Adam Marks
THE MIKI RIFKIN GRADUATE SCHOOL SERVICE AWARD
Emily May Teichman
SOCIAL AND RADICAL JUSTICE AWARD TO A GRADUATE STUDENT
Kayla Townsley
THE TERRY ANN KRULWICH DOCTORAL DISSERTATION PRIZE
Carina Pek Jean Seah
Denis Torre
MD CLASS OF 2024 DISTINCTIONS
GOLD HUMANISM HONOR SOCIETY
Amina Avril
Zakaria M Chakrani
Paige Elizabeth Cloonan
Candida Marie Camacho Damian
Christopher DeVita
Anisha Mahalya Gogerly-Moragoda
Skylar Michelle Hess
Suvruta Srisayi Iruvanti
Yonatan Israel
Carly Kaplan
Micah Levy
Elizabeth Magill
Simran Malhotra
Yeji Park
Krishna Patel
Adriana Pero
Addison Quinones
Jeanette Rios
Remington Runnfeldt Schuemann
Schneider
Daniela Ines Suarez-Rebling
Sweta Sudhir
Stephanie Ureña
Emily Ling Xu
DISTINCTION IN COMMUNITY SERVICE-GLOBAL HEALTH
Miriam Frisch
Suvruta Srisayi Iruvanti
Calla Kim Khilnani
Sonia Gita Khurana
Krsna Kim Kothari
Christine Alexis Lopez
Alexandra Mills
DISTINCTION IN RESEARCH
Sofia Ahsanuddin
Muhammad Mujtaba Ali
Illya Aronskyy
Bryana Devlin Banashefski
Joshua David Barlow
Rebecca Beatrice Baron
Suzannah Leigh Bergstein
Daniel Danyu Bu
James Keith Carter
Zakaria M Chakrani
Logan Daniel Cho
Dante Ghassan Dahabreh
Alexander Samuel Dash
Calista Lynda Dominy
Jonathan Tyler Dullea
Shivee Gilja
Rachel Gita Gologorsky
Aliza Savin Gross
Benjamin David Gross
Eugene Ivan Hrabarchuk
Sonia Gita Khurana
Ted Nnamno Obi
Bhavana Niranjan Patil
Megan Elizabeth Paul
Samuel Powell
Daniela Ines Suarez-Rebling
Emily Ling Xu
Madeline Heejae Kim
Arvind Kumar
Micah Levy
Helen Liu
Louise Malle
Lily McCarthy
James Henry Meyers
Oge C. Onuh
Benjamin Henry Oseroff
Megan Elizabeth Paul
Nicholas Louca Christophorou
Pitaro
Amara Luisa Plaza-Jennings
Samuel Kent Powell
Addison Quinones
Rishab Rajan Revankar
Andrew John Rosowicz
Christina Paulina Rossitto
Nikita Roy
Christie Bao Thu Ryba
Mia Malak Saade
Dawi Shin
Francesca Marie Silvestri
Matthew Paul Spindler
Justin Evan Tang
Justin Chan Tiao
Claire Ufongene
DISTINCTION IN MEDICAL EDUCATION
Dante Ghassan Dahabreh
Nicola Ann Feldman
Calla Kim Khilnani
Megan Elizabeth Paul
Amey Vrudhula
Christopher Andrew White
Emily Ling Xu
Stephen Yoffie
David Mina Youssef
Samuel Kent Powell
Francesca Marie Silvestri
Emily Ling Xu
GRADUATE SCHOOL LIST OF AWARDS AND PRIZES
DISTINCTION IN RESEARCH
Michael Brian Fernando
Katherine Elizabeth Lindblad
Yang Xu
Yosif Zaki
RESEARCH AWARDS
RUTH L. KIRSCHSTEIN NATIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE AWARD (NRSA/NIH)
Winston Hirschler Cuddleston, 2023-2024
Alicia Ho, 2022-2024
Michael B. Leventhal, 2021-2024
Valerie J. Marallano, 2022-2023
Angelica M. Minier-Toribio, 2022-2][=]\024
Aster Quinby Perkins, 2021-2024
Luisanna Victoria Pia, 2019-2023
Matthew Schafer, 2021
Joseph Simon IV, 2022-2024
Andrew Frank Stewart, 2022-2024
Emily May Teichman, 2022-2024
Kayla Townsley, 2022-2024
Yosif Zaki, 2021-2024
SEAVER GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP AWARD
Sarah M. Banker, 2021-2023
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Andrew Frank Stewart, 2018-2019
HHMI GILLIAM FELLOWSHIP
Michael Brian Fernando, 2021-2024
TERRY ANN KRULWICH DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD
Denis Torre, 2024
TRAVEL AWARDS
SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE CONFERENCE
Michael Brian Fernando, 2021
Angelica M. Minier-Toribio, 2022
Emily May Teichman, 2022
Yosif Zaki, 2022
KEYSTONE SYMPOSIA
Katherine E. Lindblad, 2022
CSHL BIOLOGY OF CANCER
Katherine E. Lindblad, 2021
BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING
Taylor K. Pullinger, 2021
NYAS FRONTIERS IN CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY
Katherine E. Lindblad, 2021, 2022, 2024
INTERNATIONAL BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY
Angelica M. Minier-Toribio, 2020-2021
SOCIAL AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY (SANS)
Joseph Simon IV, 2023
VIRUS-HOST INTERACTION SYMPOSIUM
Ethan Christopher Veit, 2021, 2022
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY CONFERENCE
Michael Brian Fernando, 2023
FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETIES
Kayla Townsley, 2022
GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE
Winston Hirschler Cuddleston, 2023
Taylor K. Pullinger 2023
Yosif Zaki, 2024
NOGLSTP OUT TO INNOVATE CAREER DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
Winston Hirschler Cuddleston, 2023
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR VIROLOGY, 2022
Ethan Christopher Veit, 2022, 2023
AATS ANNUAL MEETING, BOSTON
Doaa Alsaleh, 2022
GRADUATE SCHOOL LIST OF AWARDS AND PRIZES
WELLCOME TRUST CONNECTING SCIENCE - GENOMICS OF BRAIN DISORDERS
Kayla Townsley, 2023
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR HUMAN GENETICS
Winston Hirschler Cuddleston, 2023
STUDENT COUNCIL AWARDS
AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
Taylor K. Pullinger, 2020
Joseph Simon IV, 2021
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
DEPARTMENT CHAIRS
David H. Adams, MD
Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and System Chair, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Joshua B. Bederson, MD
Leonard I. Malis, MD/Corinne and Joseph Graber Professor of Neurosurgery and System Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Neil S. Calman, MD
Professor and System Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jonathan A. Cohen, DVM, MS, DACLAM
Associate Professor and Director, Center for Comparative Medicine and Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Carlos Cordon-Cardo, MD, PhD
Irene Heinz Given and John LaPorte Given Professor of Pathology and System Chair, Lillian and Henry M. Stratton-Hans Popper Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ana Fernandez-Sesma, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Raja M. Flores, MD
Steven and Ann Ames Professor in Thoracic Surgery and System Chair, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Thomas J. Fuchs, DR, SC
Co-Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai Dean for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Health
Program Director of Computational Pathology, Department of Pathology, Molecular and Cell-Based Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
CHAIRS
Leesa Galatz, MD
Mount Sinai Professor in Orthopaedics and System Chair, Leni and Peter W. May Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Annetine C. Gelijns, PhD
Edmond A. Guggenheim Professor of Health Policy and Chair, Department of Population Health Science and Policy
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Eric M. Genden, MD
Dr. Isidore Friesner Professor and System Chair, Department of Otolaryngology
Director, Mount Sinai Head and Neck Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alison Goate, D.Phil
Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences
Director, Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Emma Guttman-Yassky, MD, PhD
Waldman Chair of Dermatology and System Chair, The Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Joseph Herrera, DO
Dr. Lucy G. Moses Professorship in Rehabilitation Medicine and System Chair, Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
René Kahn, MD, PhD
Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and System Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Paul J. Kenny, PhD
Chair, Nash Family Department of Neuroscience
Director, Drug Discovery Institute
Ward-Coleman Chair in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Monica Kraft, MD
System Chair, Department of Medicine
Murray M. Rosenberg Professor of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Andrew Leibowitz, MD
Mount Sinai Professor in Perioperative Care and System Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michael L. Marin, MD
The Julius H. Jacobson, II, MD Chair in Vascular Surgery and System Chair, The Ruth J. & Maxwell Hauser and Harriet & Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD
Department of Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Surgeon-In-Chief, Mount Sinai Health System
Jolion McGreevy, MD
Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy
Director, Precision Immunology Institute
Dean for Translation Research and Therapeutic Innovation
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Marek Mlodzik, PhD
Lillian and Henry M. Stratton Professor and Chair, Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
R. Sean Morrison, MD
Ellen and Howard C. Katz Chair in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and System Chair, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Director, The Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Judy Lee Moy, DMD
Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Dentistry
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai