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This award is intended to honor a Graduate Program in Life Sciences faculty member with an outstanding record of teaching graduate students.

Nominees must have their primary faculty appointment at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Previous winners of this award may not be nominated.

The following items are required by the committee:

  • Two separate letters from individual graduate students
  • The candidate’s curriculum vitae with detailed information on previous and current teaching activities

Christie Dionisos, Dr. Tom Blanpied, and Alex Wiltse are standing together. Dr. Blanpied is holding the 2026 GPILS/OPS Teacher of the Year Award statue.

2026: Thomas A. Blanpied, PhD - Department of Pharmacology and Physiology

Dr. William Jackson and Noah Pollack are standing next to each other in front of a presentation screen. Dr. Jackson is holding a cone shaped crystal award.

2025: William T. Jackson, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Gloria Patron Fidalgo and Mary Hackbarth are standing with Dr. S Saif Hasan. He is holding his award.

2024: S. Saif Hasan, PhD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Annie Brong and Dr. Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos stand together. Dr. Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos is holding her Teacher of the Year Award.

2023: Aikaterini Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dr. Bret Hassel, a bald white man wearing a purple shirt and black tie, is standing next to Dr. Nevil Singh, an Indian man with black hair and a mustache wearing a black suit and black shirt holding his award and smiling.

2022: Nevil Singh, PhD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

2021: Mary Kay Lobo, PhD - Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

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2020: Alex Poulopoulos, PhD- Department of Pharmacology

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2019: Daniel Weinreich, PhD - Department of Pharmacology

2018: Brian Polster, PhD - Department of Anesthesiology

2017: Donald "Rick" Matteson, PhD - Department of Physiology

2016: Sania Amr, MD - Department of Epidemiology and Public Health

2015: Joseph Kao, PhD - Department of Physiology

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2014: Mark Williams, PhD - Department of Microbiology & Immunology

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2013: Bret Hassel, PhD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

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2012: Gerald Wilson, PhD - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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2011: Jeff Winkles, PhD - Department of Surgery

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2010: Paul Welling, MD - Department of Physiology

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2009: Stuart Martin, PhD - Department of Physiology

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2008: Martin Flajnik, PhD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology

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2007: Gerard Barcak, PhD - Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

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