NIH WSA Scholar Award

WSA Scholars are selected from a pool of all the female FARE (Fellow Award for Research Excellence) award winners by a panel of WSA institute representatives. The FARE award honors outstanding scientific research performed by intramural postdoctoral fellows.

Congratulations to our WSA Scholars for 2023!

• Zoe Piccuss, Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University
• Seungmi Ryu, Ph.D., NCATS
• Brittany Lord, PhD., NCI

Their award lectures were on April 13..

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WSA Scholars of 2022

• Dr. Sally Chang (NHGRI)
• Dr. Ching Wen Chang (NCI)
• Shachar Abudi (M.D.-Ph.D. candidate) (NIGMS)

WSA Scholars of 2021

• Victoria Avanzato (NIAID)
• Francesca Barone (NEI)
• Marta Markiewicz-Potoczny (NCI)

WSA Scholars of 2020

• Alix Warburton (NIAID)
• Ida Fredriksson (NIDA)

WSA Scholars of 2019

• Aleksandra Ivovic (OxCam Graduate Partnership Program)
• Navdeep Malik (NCI)
• Yu-Ting Su (NCI)

WSA Scholars of 2018

• Karen Plevock-Haase (NICHD)
• Shweta Singh (NCI)
• Shi Zhang (NIA)

WSA Scholar Awardees of 2017

• Sarah Deasy (NCI)
• Shuang Tang (NIEHS)

WSA Scholar Awardees of 2016

• Sigal Shachar (NCI)
• Heekyong Bae (NCI)
• Neelan Dabas Sen (NICHD)

WSA Scholar Awardees of 2015

• Bari Ballew (NCI)
• Barbara Nicol (NIEHS)
• Christine Jao (NIDDK)

WSA Scholar Awardees of 2014

• Sarah Cohen (NICHD)
• Weina Cong (NIA)

WSA Scholar Awardees of 2013

• Zhifei Wang (NIMH)
• Emmie de Wit (NIAID)

WSA Scholar Awardees 2012

• Anne Lai (NIEHS)
• Yurong Song (NCI-CRR)
• Shruti Naik (NIAID)

WSA Scholar Awardees of 2011

• Elizabeth Grice (NHGRI)
• Sita Laximi Thirunavukkarasu (NCI)