This award is intended to honor a postdoctoral fellow who shows an outstanding record of research performance, professional development, and record of accomplishments.
The supporting letters should address the significance of the nominee's work in the context of the specific discipline and science in general.
The following items are required by the committee:
- A nomination letter from the mentor
- A letter of support from a faculty member
- A curriculum vitae
- An abstract of no more than 500 words summarizing the overall work and its significance in the field
2025: Julie Rekant, DPT, PhD, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
2024: Bashar Hassan, MD - R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
2023: Miguel Luján, PhD - Department of Neurobiology
2022: Jose Lemme- Dumit, PhD - Center for Vaccine Development
2021: Ann Pulling-Kuhn, PhD - Department of Pediatrics
2020: Parikshit Moitra, PhD - Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine and Department of Pediatrics
2019: Polymnia Georgiou, PhD - Department of Psychiatry
2018: Megan Fox, PhD - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
2017: Panos Zanos, PhD - Department of Psychiatry
2016: Kurt Piepenbrink, PhD - Department of Medicine and Institute of Human Virology
2015: Colin Brinkman, PhD - Department of Surgery
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2014: Christopher Coleman, PhD - Department of Microbiology & Immunology
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2013: Mike Bowers, PhD - Department of Pharmacology
2012: Kelly Beazley, PhD,- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2011: Benjamin Prosser, PhD - Department of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
2010: Nicola Heller, PhD - Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases
2009: Yuji Takahashi, PhD - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
2008: Joe Mauban, PhD - Department of Physiology
2007: Thomas Stalnaker, PhD - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology