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Our students frequently receive recognition for their achievements both from Baylor College of Medicine as well as from other institutions and organizations. Below is a listing of some of the awards and honors they have earned in recent years.

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2024 Student Awards
RecipientAwardOrganization/Event
Jake Chamblee National Science Foundation (NSF) FellowshipNSF Graduate Fellowship Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
Christiana WangDavid L. Rimoin Inspiring Excellence Award from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics Foundation2024 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting
Gwendolynn Hummel Fulbright Scholar 2024-2025Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award Board
Gwynna FullerBest Student Poster AwardSociety for Developmental Biology 83rd Annual Meeting
Ruu HsuTravel Award Recipient    2024 Annual Meeting Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention
Janel PetersonBest Basic Science Oral Presentation14th International Myotonic Dystrophy Consortium Meeting, The Netherlands
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2023 Student Awards
RecipientAwardOrganization/Event
Dipak PatelAHA Predoctoral Fellowship 2024-2026American Heart Association
Fisher CherryGSBS Busch-80 Scholarship Award Baylor College of Medicine
Katherine Pendleton  3rd Place Elevator Pitch CompetitionBCM Graduate Student Symposium
Harini Tirumala  1st Place Platform Speaker  BCM Graduate Student Symposium
Katarzyna Kent Best Poster Presentation BCM Department of Pathology and Immunology Trainee Research Symposium
Dharaniya Sakthivel Poster Presentation - Honorable MentionDan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center 18th Annual Research Symposium 
Dharaniya Sakthivel Featured Book Chapter - Honorarium Elsevier Inc.
Ruu HsuCPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2023-2025Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
Eric GarciaBaylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) ScholarBaylor College of Medicine 
Paige HallBaylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) ScholarBaylor College of Medicine 
Michal TyrlikBaylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) ScholarBaylor College of Medicine 
Janel Peterson    Best Poster PresentationAnnual Frontiers in Digestive Diseases
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2022 Student Awards
RecipientAwardOrganization/Event
Emily BusseBP America Biomedical ScholarshipBP America Endowment
Catherine Bradley2nd place platform speakerBCM Graduate Student Symposium
Harini Pallikarana Tirumlala2nd place poster presentationBCM Graduate Student Symposium
Katarzyna KentPost Award for Research Relevant to Contraceptive Research and DevelopmentGates Foundation
Morgan StephensF31 Fellowship "Investigating the Role of the Cytoskeleton"National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Katherine PendletonAward: F31 fellowship "Investigating the role of CRAT as a driver of triple negative breast cancer chemoresistance"National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
Janel PetersonBest Research Poster Presentation     
 
Department of Pathology & Immunology Trainee Research Symposium

 

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2021 Student Awards
RecipientAwardOrganization/Event
Moez DawoodCPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2021-2023Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
Andrew YangCPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2021-2023Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
Adam WeinsteinHonorable Mention-Oral PresentationDan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Symposium 2021
Owen HirschiF31 Fellowship "Germline Structural Variant Identification and Functional Determination in Childhood Cancer" - F31CA265163National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
Dharaniya SakthivelCPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2021-2023Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
Varuna ChanderThird Place, Three Minute Thesis CompetitionBaylor College of Medicine 
Timothy Abreo Predoctoral Research Fellowship                    American Epilepsy Society
Venkatasubramaniam Sundaramurthy Predoctoral FellowshipAmerican Heart Association
Cathy BradleyFirst Place Oral PresentationBCM, Medical Scientist Training Program Symposium 2021
C. Grant MangleburgThird Place Oral PresentationBCM, Medical Scientist Training Program Symposium 2021
Varuna ChanderSemifinalist, Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics          American Society of Human Genetics 2021
English LasernaBaylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) ScholarBaylor College of Medicine 
Apoorva ThatavartyBaylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) ScholarBaylor College of Medicine 
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2020 Student Awards
RecipientAwardOrganization/Event
Christina Magyar McNair M.D./Ph.D. ScholarBaylor College of Medicine
Andrew YangBP America Biomedical Scholar EndowmentBaylor College of Medicine
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2019 Student Awards
RecipientAwardOrganization/Event
Pamela LurieThird Place, Three Minute Thesis CompetitionBaylor College of Medicine 
Brian St. HilaireGilliam Graduate FellowshipHoward Hughes Medical Institute
Hadley SheppardF31 Fellowship "Investigating the therapeutic wind within brachyury upstream regulation of chordoma" - F31CA236130National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute
Varuna Chander

Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Fellowship

RFA in Precision Medicine and Population Health Initiative

National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health

Baylor College of Medicine

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2018 Student Awards
RecipientAwardOrganization/Event
Bradley, CatherineMcNair M.D./Ph.D. Scholar AwardRobert and Janice McNair Foundation/McNair Medical Institute M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program
Dodson, LoisF31 FellowshipNational Heart. Lung and Blood Institute
Hansen, AdamRFA in Precision Medicine and Population Health InitiativeBaylor College of Medicine
Jolly, AngadInvited Platform SpeakerAmerican Society of Human Genetics
Khayat, MichaelRFA in Precision Medicine and Population Health InitiativeBaylor College of Medicine
Lurie, PamelaFunding on the T32 Hematology Training ProgramNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Meyer, KristenFamily Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Trainee Travel Fund AwardInternational Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation
Oaks, NinadThird Place for Trainee Poster Presentation25th Anniversary Texas Children's Research Symposium
Sisoudiya, SaumyaCPRIT Comprehensive Cancer Training Fellowship for 2018-2020CPRIT
Song, XiaofeiRegistration BursaryGenomics of Rare Disease Meeting
Ye, HuiTravel Grant AwardInternational Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders
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2017 Student Awards
RecipientAwardOrganization/Event
Dodson, LoisFirst Place, Trainee Poster PresentationTexas Children’s Hospital Research Symposium
Hsieh, Yi-ChenTrainee Professional Development AwardSociety of Neuroscience
Jolly, AngadInvited Poster PresenterAmerican Society of Human Genetics
Meyer, KristenRuth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD F30 Fellowship “Impact of Breast Milk on the Developing Infant Microbiome” - 1F30HD090891-01National Institutes of Health
Meyer, KristenFASEB Young Investigator Travel AwardOrigins and Benefits of Biologically Active Components of Human Milk, Lisbon, Portugal
Sisoudiya, SaumyaSemifinalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human GeneticsAmerican Society of Human Genetics
Song, XiaofeiBravo AwardBaylor College of Medicine
Song, XiaofeiScholarship for CSHL Course, High-Throughput Biology: From Sequence to NetworksHelmsley Foundation
Wang, LiTravel ScholarshipKeystone Symposium on Synapses and Circuits; Formation, Function and Dysfunction
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2016 Student Awards
RecipientAwardOrganization/Event
Agrawal, SmritiGordon Research Conference Travel AwardGordon Visual Systems Development Conference
Agrawal, SmritiSociety of Developmental Biology Travel AwardGordon Visual Systems Development Conference
Agrawal, SmritiEmerging Trends and Hot Topics AwardAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Agrawal, SmritiBest Poster Award in Retinal Cell BiologyAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Agrawal, SmritiNominated, Members-in-Training Award in Vision ResearchAssociation for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
Bochkov, IvanJohn J. Trentin Scholarship AwardGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine
Gundry, MichaelGraduate Student Mentor of the Year (2nd place)Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine
Gundry, MichaelInnovation of the Year (co-awarded with Lorenzo BrunettiCenter for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine
Han, SeungPoster AwardKoreans Scientists and Engineers Association
Hsieh, Yi-ChenTravel FellowshipAlzheimer's Association International Conference
Hunt, PatrickBaylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) ScholarBaylor College of Medicine
Iyer, AmritaTravel Grant for Oral Presentation13th International Congress on Human Genetics, Kyoto, Japan
Jones, EvanFellowship, Training Program in Biomedical InformaticsNational Library of Medicine
Siehr, MeaganPre-doctoral FellowshipAmerican Epilepsy Society