Postdoctoral Fellow Excellence in Research Award

This award was created to honor a Postdoctoral Fellow who shows an outstanding record of research performance, professional development, and an exceptional record of accomplishments. There is no limit to the number of nominations that we will accept for this award. The supporting letters should address the significance of the nominee's work in the context of the specific discipline and science in general. The nomination packet must include:

A nomination letter from the mentor
A letter of support from a faculty member
The nominee’s curriculum vitae
An abstract (maximum 500 words) summarizing the overall work and its significance in the field

Fall 2022: Jose Lemme- Dumit, Center for Vaccine Development

Fall 2021: Ann Pulling-Kuhn, PhD, Department of Pediatrics

Fall 2020: Parikshit Moitra, PhD, Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

Fall 2019: Polymnia Georgiou, PhD, Department of Psychiatry

Fall 2018: Megan Fox, PhD, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

Fall 2017: Panos Zanos, PhD, Department of Psychiatry

Fall 2016: Kurt Piepenbrink, PhD, Department of Medicine, Institute of Human Virology

Fall 2015: Colin Brinkman, PhD, Department of Surgery

Fall 2014: Christopher Coleman PhD, Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Fall 2013: Mike Bowers, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology

Fall 2012: Kelly Beazley, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Fall 2011: Benjamin Prosser, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, PhD awarded by UM Program in Molecular Medicine

Fall 2010: Nicola Heller, PhD, Department of Microbiology & Immunolology and the Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases

Fall 2009: Yuji Takahashi, PhD, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology

Fall 2008: Joe Mauban, Ph.D., Department of Physiology

Fall 2007: Thomas Stalnaker, PhD, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology