Graduate Program in Life Sciences (GPILS)

Faculty Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentorship Award

This award is intended to honor a faculty member with a record of supportive mentorship of postdoctoral fellows.

The following items are required by the committee:

  • Nomination letters from two postdoctoral fellows mentored by the candidate
  • The candidate’s curriculum vitae including a list of current and past postdoctoral fellows and, if known, the current position of past postdoctoral fellows
Dr. Audra Kramer, Dr. Ivy Dick, and Dr. Daiana Vieira are standing next to each other in front of a presentation screen. Dr. Dick is holding a cone shaped crystal award.

2025: Ivy E. Dick, PhD, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology

Dr. Luana Colloca and Dr. Nandini Raghuraman stand and hold her award.

2024: Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS - Department of Pain and Translational Symptom Science

Dr. Mohammad Sajadi and Dr. Lydia Tang stand together. Dr. Mohammad Sajadi is holding his Faculty Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentorship Award

2023: Mohammad Sajadi, MD - Department of Medicine

Dr. Sergio Dominguez Lopez is a Latino man with short brown hair wearing a green and white floral shirt, smiling next to Dr. Matt Trudeau, a bald white man wearing black glasses, a blue dress shirt, a black blazer, and blue tie holding his award.

2022: Matthew Trudeau, PhD - Department of Physiology

Nicholas Carbonetti, PhD wearing a tan suit, white shirt, and black tie in front of a blue background

2020: Nicholas Carbonetti, PhD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Joanna Cooper, Todd Gould, Polymnia Georgiou, Panos Zanos

2019: Todd Gould, PhD - Department of Psychiatry

2017: Joseph Cheer, PhD - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology