This award is intended to honor a postdoctoral fellow who shows an outstanding record of supportive mentorship in a laboratory during their time at the School of Medicine.
Nomination and support letters should describe the postdoctoral fellow’s character, their investment and commitment to training the next generation of researchers, the frequency of the interactions and length of relationships with mentees, and the importance of their impact on the mentee’s professional or educational success.
The following items are required by the committee:
- A nomination letter from a mentee of the candidate.
- An additional letter of support from a faculty member, postdoctoral fellow, graduate student, staff member, or additional mentee
- A curriculum vitae highlighting the candidate’s mentorship activity
2025: Jimmy Olusakin, PhD, Department of Neurobiology
2024: Julie Rekant, DPT, PhD - Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
2023: Bashar Hassan, MD - R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
2022: Daiana Cardoso Oliveira Viera, PhD - Department of Physiology
2021: Michael Ha, PhD - Department of Surgery
2020: Bekir Altas, PhD - Department of Pharmacology
2019: Natalie Zlebnik, PhD - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology