RUTH AND WILLIAMS SILEN, M.D. AWARDS


Oral Presentation Awardees

  First Place:                Frankie Heyward, PhD – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
                                       Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

  Second Place:            Chimwemwe Mwase – PhD Candidate
                                        Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  Third Place:                Briana Cortez – MD Candidate
                                        University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Edinburg, Texas

Poster Presentation Awards for Cellular Biology, Neuroscience, Biochemistry, or Physiology Category

 First Place:                  Geraldine Ezeka – PhD Candidate
                                        University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Second Place:               Anthony Moussa – College Student
                                        The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Third Place:                  Takato Honda, PhD – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
                                         Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Poster Presentation Awards for Microbiology, Immunology, Genetics, or Molecular Biology Category

 First Place:                  Erik Guillen – MD/PhD Candidate
                                       Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

 Second Place:            Josiane Fofana – PhD Candidate
                                       Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

 Third Place:                Mahaa Albusharif – Post-baccalaureate – University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2021
                                       University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts

Poster Presentation Awards for Public Health, Epidemiology, or Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Physics, Chemistry, or Engineering and Clinical or Social Science (including Translational Research) Categories

 First Place:                 Rahul Suryadevara – College Student
                                      Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts

 Second Place:            Hanifa Maswali – College Student
                                      Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia

 Third Place:               Jordan Petitt – MD Candidate
                                      Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio


DANA-FARBER/HARVARD CANCER CENTER AWARDS

Oral Presentation Award:

                                     Sangyeon Cho, PhD – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
                                    Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Poster Presentation Award:

                                    Jack Menard – College Student
                                   Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana


PROPHET GENOMICS TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AWARD

 Poster Presentation Award:

                                    Allison Sweeney – Master’s Candidate
                                   Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts


POSTDOCTORAL AWARDS SPONSORD BY VERTEX


First Place:                  Serveh Padash, MD – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
                                       Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

 Second Place:             Amina Jaji, MD – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
                                       Advocate Children’s Hospital, Oak Lawn, Illinois 

 Third Place:                 Takato Honda, PhD – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
                                       Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts


BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER DEPARTMENT OF NEONATOLOGY POSTER AWARD

                                   

                                     Kathryn Wall – PhD Candidate
                                    Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut


STEM CELL AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE POSTER AWARD

                                   

                                     Erik Guillen – MD/PhD Candidate
                                    Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York


THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY AWARDS


 Oral Presentation Award:

                                    Mitchell Taylor – MD Candidate
                                   Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska

Poster Presentation Award:

                                    Serveh Padash, MD – Postdoctoral Research Fellow
                                   Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota