Einstein Ph.D. and MD-PhD students have a long history of successfully applying for and receiving NIH Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (e.g., F30, F31). Below are recent students who have received an Individual Predoctoral Fellowship award.
2023
MELISSA CASTIGLIONE
Project Title: Defining Activities of KDMS Essential to Development and Viability
Funding: F31 (NIGMS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Julie Secombe
Department of Genetics
YESSENIA CEDENO
Project Title: Role of Nicotinamide Nucleotide Adenylyltransferase-1 (NMNAT1) in Chromatin Remodeling and Gene Regulation
Funding: F31 (NIGMS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Robert Coleman
Department of Cell Biology
ERIK GUILLEN
Project Title: Impact of T cell receptor signaling on memory CD8+ T cell stemness
Funding: F31 (NIAID)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. Gregoire Lauvau
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
ILANA KARP
Project Title: Regulation of Splicing During Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Formation
Funding: F31 (NHLBI)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Teresa Bowman
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
JESSIE LARIOS-VALENCIA
Project Title: The Role of Dedifferentiation in Basal like Breast Cancer
Funding: F31 (NCI)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. Wenjun Guo
Department of Cell Biology
RIANA LO BU
Project Title: Dissecting GWAS Identified Risk Variants in Parkinson's Disease – Functional Role of GPNMB in the Pathogenesis of PD
Funding: F31 (NINDS)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. Frank Soldner
Department of Neuroscience
ANASTASIA NIZHNIK
Project Title: Dissection of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Differentiation during Embryogenesis
Funding: F31 (NHLBI)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Teresa Bowman
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
TRAM NGOC BAO NGUYEN
Project Title: Reward Function in Adolescents with Depression and Cannabis Use
Funding: F30 (NIDA)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. Vilma Gabbay
Clinical Investigation Track
ANDREA RAMIREZ
Project Title: The Role of Mammalian Diaphanous Formin 1 in Leading Edge Cell Protrusion
Funding: F31 (NIGMS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Luis Hodgson
Department of Molecular Pharmacology
ERIC SOSA
Project Title: Defining the gene regulatory roles of non-coding variants in the pathogenesis of autism
Funding: F31 (NIMH)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. John Greally
Department of Genetics
MATANEL YHESKEL
Project Title: Epigenetic and transcriptional consequences of Intellectual Disability-associated mutations in the histone lysine demethylase KDM5
Funding: F31 (NIGMS)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. Julie Secombe
Department of Genetics
2022
IAN MACARTHUR
Project Title: Epigenetic regulation of neural stem cell biology by Tet DNA dioxygenasesFunding: F30 (NICHD)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Meelad Dawlaty
Department of Genetics
2021
LETI NUNEZ
Project Title: Determining the effect of RNA binding protein phosphorylation on mRNA fateFunding: F31 (NINDS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Robert Singer
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
JACOB RATLIFF
Project Title: The role of long-range inhibitory neurons in cortical circuitsFunding: F31 (NINDS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Renata Batista Brito
Department of Neuroscience
HENRIETTA BAINS
Project Title: How does mTOR sense lipid in vivoFunding: F31 (NIA)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Rajat Singh
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
CZARINA RAMOS
Project Title: Activity Dependent Changes in the Contextual Memory EngramFunding: F31 (NIMH)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Pablo Castillo
Department of Neuroscience
CHRISTOPHER NISHIMURA
Project Title: Mechanistic Dissection and Therapeutic Targeting of B7x in CancerFunding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Xingxing Zang
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
RYAN GRAFF
Project Title: Platelet PI3Kbeta regulation of metastasisFunding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Backer
Department of Molecular Pharmacology
JOHN BARBARO
Project Title: Methamphetamine and Antiretroviral Therapy Impact Macrophage Functions and Macroautophagy: Implications for HIV NeuropathogenesisFunding: F30 (NIDA)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Joan Berman
Department of Pathology
KEANU SHADRON
Project Title: The Effect of Encoding Cue Reliability on the Function and Development of the Barn Owl Auditory SystemFunding: F31
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Jose Pena
Department of Neuroscience
ANDREA BAE
Project Title: Role of brain oscillations in midbrain and forebrain networks supporting stimulus selection in the sound localization pathway of barn owlsFunding: F30 (NIDCD)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Jose Pena
Department of Neuroscience
KELLY CLEMENZA
Project Title: AChemogenetic Strategy for Selective Inhibition of Exogenous Opiod-Induced Reward SignalingFunding: F31 (NIDA)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Lucas Sjulson
Department of Neuroscience
JULIO FLORES
Project Title: Epigenetic regulation of stem cells and development by the DNA dioxygenase Tet2Funding: F31 (NIGMS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Meelad Dawlaty
Department of Genetics
2020
CLAIRE WARD
Project Title: DEVELOPMENTAL DYSFUNCTION OF PARVALBUMIN INTERNEURONS IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERFunding: F31 (NICHD)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Renata Batista Brito
Department of Neuroscience
TAYLOR THOMPSON
Project Title: TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY AND CELL DIFFERENTIATION INFLUENCES OF AN ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALFunding: F31 (NIEHS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. John Greally
Department of Genetics
BIANCA ULLOA
Project Title: DECIPHERING THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELL SELF-RENEWAL AND DIFFERENTIATIONFunding: F31 (NHLBI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Teresa Bowman
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
DANIEL BORGER
Project Title: DEVELOPING A NOVEL EX VIVO PLATFORM TO SUPPORT HEMATOPOIETIC CELLS AND CHARACTERIZE THE STEM CELL NICHE Funding: F30 (NHLBI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Paul Frenette
Department of Cell Biology
VICTORIA SEDWICK
Project Title: THE ROLE OF THE AMYGDALOHIPPOCAMPAL AREA IN INFANT-DIRECTED AGGRESSION Funding: F31 (NICHD)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Anita Autry
Department of Neuroscience
2019
MICHELLE GULFO
Project Title: ASSESSING DOPAMINERGIC MODULATION OF AN ASSOCIATIVE CIRCUIT WITHIN THE DENTATE GYRUS Funding: F31 (NIMH)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Pablo Castillo
Department of Neuroscience
MEERA TRIVEDI
Project Title: CHARACTERIZING NOVEL REGULATIONS OF DENDRITIC TILING IN C. ELEGANS Funding: F31 (NINDS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Hannes Buelow
Department of Neuroscience
2018
HAYDEN HATCH
Project Title: TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION, NEURONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND FUNCTION OF THE MUSHROOM BODY IN A DROSOPHILA MODEL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITYFunding: F31 (NINDS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Julie Secombe
Department of Genetics