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.
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
HANSOO SONG
Project Title: EARLY FUNCTIONS OF TBX2 AND TBX3 IN INNER EAR DEVELOPMENTFunding: F31 (NIDCD)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Bernice Morrow
Department of Genetics
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
LINDSEY GURSKA
Project Title: RON KINASE AS A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGET IN MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMS Funding: F31 (NCI)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Kira Gritsman
Department of Cell Biology
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
JAMIE MOORE
Project Title: UNRAVELING MECHANISMS OF PLASMACYTOID DENDRITIC CELL PRIMING BY CD169+ MACROPHAGES IN SEVERE MURINE MALARIA Funding: F31 (NHLBI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Gregoire Lauvau
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
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
ADAM SPITZ
Project Title: DIRECT SMALL MOLECULE ACTIVATION OF PRO-APOPTOTIC BAKFunding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Evripidis Gavathiotis
Department of Biochemistry
2018
JOSHUA WEINREB
Project Title: Uncovering the Role of the DEAD Box Helicase Ddx41 in HematopoiesisFunding: F30 (NHLBI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Teresa Bowman
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
ANDREA LOPEZ-ARROYO
Project Title: SYNERGISTIC CO-TARGETING OF PRO-APOPTOTIC BAX AND ANTI-APOPTOTIC BCL-XL IN CANCER Funding: F31 (NCI)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Evripidis Gavathiotis
Department of Biochemistry
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
ERIK HASENOEHRL
Project Title: TARGETING TERMINAL RESPIRATORY OXIDATION IN MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS: A NOVEL INVESTIGATION OF CYTOCHROME BD OXIDASE FUNCTIONFunding: F30 (NIAID)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. William Jacobs, Jr.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
VANESSA ALMONTE
Project Title: ROLE OF COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1 RECEPTOR (CSF1R) IN GRAFT VASCULAR DISEASEFunding: F31 (NHLBI)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Nicholas Sibinga
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
NILOY IQBAL
Project Title: TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PRB IS A NOVEL TARGET FOR HYPOTHALAMIC INHIBITION OF DIET INDUCED OBESITYFunding: F30 (NIDDK)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Liang Zhu
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
JOSHUA MAYORAL
Project Title: SECRETED EFFECTORS OF TOXOPLASMA GONDII BRADYZOITESFunding: F30 (NIAID)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Louis Weiss
Department of Pathology
PETER JOHN
Project Title: B7X IN CANCER: MECHANISMS AND THERAPIESFunding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Xingxing Zang
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
YVETT SOSA
Project Title: CHARACTERIZING AND TARGETING MALARIA PARASITE PURINE UPTAKE PATHWAYS TO GENERATE NOVEL ANTIMALARIAL DRUGSFunding: F31 (NIAID)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Myles Akabas
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
RICHARD PISZCZATOWSKI
Project Title: INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF NOL3 IN NORMAL AND MALIGNANT HEMATOPOIESISFunding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Ulirich Steidl
Department of Cell Biology
KRISTIN PALARZ
Project Title: SEROTONINERGIC MODULATION OF CEREBELLAR CIRCUITRYFunding: F31 (NINDS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Kamran Khodakhah
Department of Neuroscience
2017
DAVID AJASIN
Project Title: INTERPLAY OF HOST FACTORS THAT MODULATE HIV-1 RELEASE AND REPLICATION FITNESSFunding: F31 (NIAID)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Vinayaka Prasad
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
HANNAH MONDAY
Project Title: LOCAL PROTEIN SYNTHESIS IN PRESYNAPTIC PLASTICITY Funding: F31 (NIMH)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Pablo Castillo
Department of Neuroscience
RENEE SYMONDS
Project Title: THE NEURAL REPRESENTATION OF SOUND IN COMPLEX AUDITORY ENVIRONMENTSFunding: F31 (NIDCD)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Elyse Sussman
Department of Neuroscience
CINDY REYES
Project Title: MESOLIMBIC MECHANISMS OF REINFORCEMENTFunding: F31 (NIDA)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Saleem Nicola
Department of Neuroscience
LIANE HUNTER
Project Title: IDENTIFYING BIOMARKERS THAT MODIFY OUTCOMES IN SOCCER HEADINGFunding: F31 (NINDS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Michael Lipton
Department of Neuroscience
MAISHA RAHMAN
Project Title: UNCOVERING THE ROLE OF LEUKOCYTE CELL-DERIVED CHEMOTAXIN 2 (LECT-2) IN DENDRITE MORPHOGENESIS Funding: F31 (NINDS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Hannes E. Buelow
Department of Neuroscience
ROSS FIRESTONE
Project Title: DESIGNING NOVEL ANTI-CANCER THERAPEUTICS: TARGETING METHIONINE METABOLISM Funding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Vern Schramm
Department of Biochemistry
JEETAYU BISWAS
Project Title: THE SEQUENCE RECOGNITION, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE IMP FAMILY OF MRNA BINDING PROTEINSFunding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Robert Singer
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
JUSTIN WHEAT
Project Title: UNCOVERING TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF A MASTER HEMATOPOIETIC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AT SINGLE MOLECULE RESOLUTIONFunding: F30 (NIGMS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Ulrich Steidl
Department of Cell Biology
2016
SAMER HANNA
Project Title: THE ROLE OF TUNNELING NANOTUBES AS A NOVEL MODE OF TUMOR CELL-MACROPHAGE COMMUNICATIONFunding: F99 (NCI)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Dianne Cox
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
ESTAH LEAH BOCK
Project Title: MECHANISTIC STUDY AND GENE TARGETING TO BLOCK HIV ASSEMBLY BY IN-BINDING PROTEINFunding: F31 (NIGMS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Ganjam Kalpana
Department of Genetics
RUTH ANN HOWE
Project Title: CHARACTERIZING THE NOVEL PROTEIN C15ORF65Funding: F30 (NHLBI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Ulirch Steidl
Department of Cell Biology
CHRISTOPHER WARREN
Project Title: REGULATION OF HISTONE CHAPERONE FUNCTION BY GLUTAMYLATIONFunding: F31 (NIGMS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. David Shechter
Department of Biochemistry
ALI ZAHALKA
Project Title: CONTRIBUTIONS OF SYMPATHETIC SIGNALS TO PROSTATE CANCER PROGRESSIONFunding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Paul Frenette
Department of Cell Biology
CARY WEISS
Project Title: MICRORNA-22 AND THE MICRORNA-22/TET2 NETWORK AS REGULATORS OF THE CELL FATE DECISION IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS AND IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME.Funding: F30 (NIDDK)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Keisuke Ito
Department of Cell Biology
SEAN HEALTON
Project Title: EPIGENETIC ACTIVITY OF NORMAL AND CANCER-ASSOCIATED MUTANT H1 LINKER HISTONESFunding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Arthur Skoultchi
Department of Cell Biology
2015
NELSON GIL
Project Title: THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF RECEPTOR-LIGAND RECOGNITION ON THE IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSEFunding: F31 (NIGMS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Andras Fiser
Department of Systems and Computational Biology
ODELYA HARTUNG
Project Title: THE ROLE OF RBPMS2 IN ESTABLISHING OOCYTE POLARITYFunding: F30 (NICHD)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Florence Marlow
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
PABLO LITUMA
Project Title: PRESYNAPTIC NMDAR FUNCTION IN THE HIPPOCAMPUSFunding: F31 (NIMH)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Pablo Castillo
Department of Neuroscience
MARIKA OSTERBUR
Project Title: EXTRA-CODING FEATURES OF MRNA ARE ESSENTIAL FOR HERG CHANNEL FUNCTIONFunding: F30 (NHLBI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Thomas McDonald
Department of Molecular Biology
KARIN SKALINA
Project Title: OPTIMIZATION OF NON-ABLATIVE FOCUSED ULTRASOUND THERAPY FOR TUMOR IMMUNITYFunding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Chandan Guha
Department of Pathology
MICHAEL WILLCOCKSON
Project Title: REGULATORS OF THE ERYTHROID TERMINAL DIFFERENTIATION DECISION AND THEIR CONNECTION TO THE CELL CYCLEFunding: F30 (NIDDK)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Arthur Skoultchi
Department of Cell Biology
2014
ARIEL VITENZON
Project Title: DOES A COMMON MECHANISM TRIGGER ATTACKS IN EPISODIC ATAXIA TYPE 2?Funding: F31 (NINDS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Kamran Khodakhah
Department of Neuroscience
SAMANTHA KEE
Project Title: CEREBELLAR INVOLVEMENT AND ALCOHOL EFFECTS IN A MOUSE MODEL OF MYOCLONUS DYSTONIAFunding: F31 (NINDS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Kamran Khodakhah
Department of Neuroscience
KIM OHAEGBULAM
Project Title: TUMOR EXPRESSED B7X ACCELERATES DISEASE AND IS A NOVEL TARGET FOR IMMUNOTHERAPYFunding: F31 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Xingxing Zang
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
JENNIFER SCHLOSS
Project Title: USE OF BETA CELL EPITOPES IN PREVENTING TYPE 1 DIABETES IN HUMANIZED MICEFunding: F30 (NIDDK)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Teresa DiLorenzo
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
HENRY SHIKANI
Project Title: THE ROLE OF TAU IN THE NEUROPATHOLOGY OF CEREBRAL MALARIAFunding: F31 (NINDS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Mahalia Desuisseaux
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
ROBERT STANLEY
Project Title: INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF ARC IN HEMATOPOIESIS AND MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMSFunding: F30 (NHLBI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Ulrich Steidl
Department of Cell Biology
ONYINYECHUKWU UCHIME
Project Title: NOVEL INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISM OF BAX MODULATIONFunding: F31 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Evripidis Gavathiotis
Department of Biochemistry