News Items
Recent Awards and Accomplishments
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Van Troung, PREP alum (15th Cohort, research mentor: Dr. Bryan Lewis), and currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, was one of 35 other fellows from around the world awarded the 2022 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.
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lbert Hinman, IMSD prebac alum, (research mentor: Dr. Daniela Cimini), Stanford PhD, started a new fellowship as a Genetics and Public Policy Fellow cosponsored by the The American Society of Human Genetics and the National Human Genome Resource Institute.
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Tristan Hayes, IMSD alum (4th cohort, research mentor: Dr. Chris Lawrence), VT PhD, Computational Immunology, started as a Research Scientist at Charles River Laboratories.
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Dr. Trevin Glasgow, IMSD alum (8th cohort, research mentor: Dr. E. Scott Geller), VT PhD, currently an HIH Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA), currently postdoc at VCU and will be heading to UVA as assistant professor.
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Timothy Lipuma, PREP alum (18th cohort, research mentor: Dr. Georgia Hodes), started his Ph.D. at IUPUI after a transition stop in Ireland at the University of Cork for the MS.
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Jason Putnam, PREP alum (18th cohort, research mentor: Dr. Matt Buczynski), previously at Vanderbilt University as a Research Assistant, started his PhD at the University of Maryland in Neuroscience.