Fellowships and Awards

2024

• Joe Pelt from the Incoming Class of 2020 received a Graduate Award from the American Society of Hematology for his project titled “Early Molecular Events that Initiate Richter's Transformation in Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.” Joe is mentored by Dan Landau at Weill Cornell Medicine.

• Rebecca Gelfer from the Incoming Class of 2019 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for her project titled “Characterizing Oncogenic Nras in IDH1 Mutant AML Leukemogenesis and Therapeutic Responsiveness.” Rebecca is mentored by Ross Levine at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Won Kim from the Incoming Class of 2019 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIHLB for his project titled “Identifying Mis-Splicing-Derived Antigens in Spliceosomal Mutant Myelodysplasia and Targeting via T-Cell Receptor Therapeutics.” Won Jun is mentored by Omar Abdel-Wahab at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Alfred Chin from the Incoming Class of 2019 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIDDK for his project titled “Structural Basis for Deficient Actin Mechanosensing in ACTN4-Driven Podocytopathy.” Alfred is mentored by Gregory Alushin at The Rockefeller University.

• Rina Davidson from the Incoming Class of 2019 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICHD for her project titled “The Impact of Thalamocortical Axon Refinement on the Development of the Prefrontal Cortex.” Rina is mentored by David Simon at Weill Cornell Medicine.

• Sakila Nazia from the Incoming Class of 2019 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIAID for her project titled “Arginine Biosynthesis: A Metabolic Battery for Mycobacteria Tuberculosis to Survive Aerosolization Stress.” Sakila is mentored by Kyu Rhee at Weill Cornell Medicine.

• Won Kim from the Incoming Class of 2019 received a Graduate Award from the American Society of Hematology for his project titled “Characterizing Neoantigen-Specific T-Cell Immunity and T-Cell Receptor Repertoire in Spliceosomal Mutant Myeloid Leukemias.” Won is mentored by Omar Abdel-Wahab at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

2023

• Abby Xie from the Incoming Class of 2019 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for her project titled “Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Cancers with Impaired TCA Cycle Activity.” Abigail is mentored by Lydia Finley at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Briana Cristophers from the Incoming Class of 2018 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICHD for her project titled “The Contributions of Excitation and Contraction to Muscle Deterioration in a Drosophila Model of CFL2 Nemaline Myopathy.” Briana is mentored by Mary Baylies at the Sloan Kettering Institute.
• Rebecca Gelfer from the Incoming Class of 2019 received a Graduate Award from the American Society of Hematology for her project titled “Characterizing Oncogenic Nras in IDH1 Mutant AML Leukemogenesis and Therapeutic Responsiveness.” Rebecca is mentored by Ross Levine at the Sloan Kettering Institute.
• Cheryl Mai from the Incoming Class of 2019 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIAID for her project titled “Lymph Node Stromal Cells Coordinate Immune Cell Environments during Aspergillus Fumigatus Infection.” Cheryl is mentored by Alexander Rudensky at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Rohan Roy from the Incoming Class of 2019 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICDC for his project titled “Mechanisms of Sensory Hair Cell Reinnervation following Lateral Line Cranial Nerve Damage in Danio Rerio.” Rohan is mentored by A. James Hudspeth at The Rockefeller University. 

• David Rosenthal from the Incoming Class of 2018 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIMH for his project titled “Noncanonical E2F Regulation in the Neuronal DNA Damage Response.” David is mentored by Tobias Meyer at Weill Cornell Medicine.

• Jez Marston from the Incoming Class of 2018 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Identifying Endogenous Retroviral Factors in Viral Lymphomagenesis.” Jez is mentored by Doug Nixon and Ethel Cesarman at Weill Cornell Medicine.

• Friederike Buck from the Incoming Class of 2018 received an F31 NRSA from the NIH/NINDS for her project titled “Neuronal Control of Motor State Transitions.” Friederike is mentored by Cori Bargmann at The Rockefeller University.

2022

• Jeremy Chang from the Incoming Class of 2018 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Single-Molecule Dissection of a Tumor- and Virus-Suppressing Smc Complex Involved in Genome Maintenance.” Jeremy is mentored by Shixin Liu at The Rockefeller University.

• Nicky Blobel from the Incoming Class of 2017 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Mechanisms of Genomic Instability, Tumor Initiation and Progression following the Disruption of the RTF2-RNase H2 Axis.” Nicolas is mentored by Agata Smogorzewska at The Rockefeller University.
• Zi-Ning Choo from the Incoming Class of 2017 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for her project titled “Inferring the Structure and Evolution of Tandem Duplication Towers.” Zi-Ning is mentored by Marcin Imielinski at Weill Cornell Medicine.
• Ben Jackson from the Incoming Class of 2017 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICHD for his project titled “Metabolic Control of Exit from Naïve Pluripotency.” Benjamin is mentored by Lydia Finley at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Abby Janke from the Incoming Class of 2017 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NEI for her project titled “How Neural Signals are Integrated Over Time.” Abby is mentored by Gaby Maimon at The Rockefeller University.

• Andrew Toader from the Incoming Class of 2017 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIMH for his project titled “Functional Interactions of the Entorhinal Cortex during Systems Consolidation.” Andrew is mentored by Priya Rajasethupathy at The Rockefeller University.

• Alfred Chin from the Incoming Class of 2019 received a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association for his project titled “Mechanobiology of Catch Bonding by Cardiomyopathy-Related Actin-binding Proteins.” Alfred is mentored by Gregory Alushin at The Rockefeller University.

2021

• Jesse Novak from the Incoming Class of 2017 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICHD for his project titled “Dissecting the Role of Serine Metabolism in Stem Cell Fate and Tissue Regeneration.” Jesse is mentored by Elaine Fuchs at The Rockefeller University.

• Camila Villasante from the Incoming Class of 2017 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICDC for her project titled “Protocadherin 15 as a Critical Component of the Gating Spring of Human Hearing.” Camila is mentored by A. James Hudspeth at The Rockefeller University.

• Dalton Banh from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIAID for his project titled “Elucidating How CRISPR-Cas Modulates the Spread of S. Aureus Pathogenicity Islands.” Dalton is mentored by Luciano Marraffini at The Rockefeller University.

• Yilun Ma from the Incoming Class of 2017 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “In Vivo Characterization of Keratinocytes in the Melanoma Microenvironment.” Yilun is mentored by Richard White at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Alex Talishinsky from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIMH for his project titled “Sex-Specific Functional Connectivity Changes in Major Depressive Disorder.” Alex is mentored by Conor Liston at Weill Cornell Medicine.

• Abood Abuhashem from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICHD for his project titled “Dissecting the Role of RNA Pol II Pausing in Early Mammalian Development.” Abood is mentored by Kat Hadjantonakis at the Sloan Kettering Institute.
• Neville Dusaj from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIHLB for his project titled “Deciphering Clonal Hematopoiesis via Single-Cell Multi-Omics.” Neville is mentored by Dan Landau at Weill Cornell Medicine.
• Kevin Boehm from the Incoming Class of 2015 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Multimodal Computational Models to Stratify Ovarian Cancer Patients.” Kevin is mentored by Sohrab Shah at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Alex Barbulescu from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIAID for his project titled “Investigating the Effect of Antibody Mediated Feedback on B Cell Clonal Selection.” Alex is mentored by Gabriel Victora at The Rockefeller University.

• Nneoma Adaku from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for her project titled “Elucidating the Function of LRP1 in APOE-Mediated Suppression of Melanoma Metastasis.” Nneoma is mentored by Sohail Tavazoie at The Rockefeller University.

• Charlie Kinzig from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Telomerase-Mediated Healing of Double-Strand Breaks in Human Cells.” Charlie is mentored by Titia De Lange at The Rockefeller University.

• Harlan Pietz from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Studies of the Structural and Functional Basis of Neuroblastoma Drug Resistance.” Harlan is mentored by Jue Chen at The Rockefeller University.

2020

• Deeksha Deep from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIAID for her project titled “Dendritic Cell Heterogeneity and Its Role in Pulmonary Fungal Infection.” Deeksha is mentored by Alexander Rudensky at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Daniel Poston from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIAID for his project titled “Elucidating Antiviral Defenses against Diverse Immunodeficiency Viruses Using a Novel, High-Throughput CRISPR/Cas9 Screening Method.” Daniel is mentored by Paul Bieniasz at The Rockefeller University.

• Ally Moyer from the Incoming Class of 2015 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIHLB for her project titled “Ironing out Mycobacterial Persistence: Iron Access and Utilization in Chronic Mycobacterial Infection.” Ally is mentored by Emily Cheng at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Debby Abramov from the Incoming Class of 2015 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICHD for her project titled “Munc18-1 Mutations Disrupt Syntaxin-5 Stability and General Secretory Trafficking.” Debby is mentored by Jacqueline Burre at Weill Cornell Medicine.
• Andrew Iannone from the Incoming Class of 2014 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICHD for his project titled “The Role of Layer I Interneurons in the Activity-Dependent Assembly of the Somatosensory Cortex.” Andrew is mentored by Natalia De Marco Garcia at Weill Cornell Medicine.

• Dianne Lumaquin from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for her project titled “The Role of Lipids in Melanoma Progression via Induction of ER Stress and Lipid Droplet Formation.” Dianne is mentored by Richard White at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Stefan Torborg from the Incoming Class of 2016 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Investigation of Heterogeneity in Cancer Cell Proliferation.” Stefan is mentored by Tuomas Tammela at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Geena Ianni from the Incoming Class of 2015 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIMH for her project titled “Cortical Control of Facial Expression Production.” Geena is mentored by Winrich Freiwald at The Rockefeller University.

• Claire Kenney from the Incoming Class of 2014 received an F31 NRSA from the NIH/NIGMS for her project titled “Elucidating Mechanisms of Adaptive Immunity in Type II-A CRISPR-Cas.” Claire is mentored by Luciano Marraffini at The Rockefeller University.

• Robbie Williams from the Incoming Class of 2015 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Transcriptional Determinants of L-Asparaginase Response in Leukemia.” Robbie is mentored by Kivanc Birsoy at The Rockefeller University.

2019

• Maria Passarelli from the Incoming Class of 2015 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for her project titled “Characterizing the Role of Leucyl Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase (LARS) in Breast Cancer Metastasis.” Maria is mentored by Sohail Tavazoie at The Rockefeller University.

• Sanjee Baksh from the Incoming Class of 2014 received an F31 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Dissecting the Role of Serine Metabolism in Tumor Initiating Stem Cells.” Sanjeethan is mentored by Elaine Fuchs at The Rockefeller University.

• Sofia Gearty from the Incoming Class of 2015 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIDDK for her project titled “T-Cell Heterogeneity and Fate Diversification in Autoimmune Type I Diabetes.” Sofia is mentored by Andrea Schietinger at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Andrew Griswold from the Incoming Class of 2015 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Characterizing the DPP8/9 Pyroptotic Checkpoint with Chemoproteomic Protease Substrate Profiling.” Andrew is mentored by Daniel Bachovchin at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Bobbie Pelham-Webb from the Incoming Class of 2014 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICHD for her project titled “The Role of Mitotic Bookmarking in the Molecular Resetting of the Pluripotent Stem Cell Identity.” Barbara is mentored by Effie Apostolou at Weill Cornell Medicine.

• Dianne Lumaquin from the Incoming Class of 2016 received a Medical Student Award from the Melanoma Research Foundation for her project titled “Elucidating the Role of AMPK Signaling in Melanoma Metastasis.” Dianne is mentored by Richard White at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

2018

• Kristina Navrazhina from the Incoming Class of 2014 received a Medical Student Award from the Melanoma Research Foundation for her project titled “Investigating the Role of Nucleotide Metabolism and AMPK Signaling in Melanoma Metastasis.” Kristina is mentored by James Krueger at The Rockefeller University.

• Kristina Navrazhina from the Incoming Class of 2014 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for her project titled “Investigating the Role of Nucleotide Metabolism and AMPK Signaling in Melanoma Metastasis.” Kristina is mentored by James Krueger at The Rockefeller University.

• Josh Weiss from the Incoming Class of 2014 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for her project titled “Investigating the Role of Adipocyte Lipolysis in Melanoma Progression.” Josh is mentored by Richard White at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Brian Hurwitz from the Incoming Class of 2014 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “The Integrated Stress Response in Stem Cells and Cancer.” Brian is mentored by Elaine Fuchs at The Rockefeller University.

• Jay Shi from the Incoming Class of 2014 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NCI for his project titled “Dynamic Organization of Cell Architecture in Multicellular Tissues.” Jay is mentored by Jennifer Zallen at the Sloan Kettering Institute.

• Margo Herre from the incoming Class of 2014 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NICDC for her project titled “Hormone Regulation of Olfactory Neuron Function in the Zika Vector Aedes Aegypti.” Margo is mentored by Leslie Vosshall at The Rockefeller University.
• Sarah Schraeder from the Incoming Class of 2014 received an F30 NRSA from the NIH/NIAID for her project titled “Molecular Mechanisms of Persistence in Mycobacteria.” Sarah is mentored by Carl Nathan at Weill Cornell Medicine.