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.
WSA scholars
This year’s awardees are:
Dr. Jennifer Ish, NIEHS
Mentor: Dr. Alexandra White
Exploiting metabolic vulnerabilities through pharmacological inhibition of NAD production as a potential therapy for neuroblastoma
Dr. Jennifer Zink, NCI
Mentor: Dr. David Berrigan
Examining the Bidirectional Associations between Screen Time, Sleep Duration, and Internalizing Symptoms in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
Dr. Chaido Stathopoulou, NCI
Mentor: Dr. Hassan Raffit
Mesothelin-targeting, nanobody-based CAR T cells effectively target solid tumors in fully immunocompetent hosts
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WSA Scholars of 2023
- Zoe Piccuss, Ph.D. Candidate, Brown University
- Seungmi Ryu, Ph.D., NCATS
- Brittany Lord, PhD., NCI
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)
This page was last updated on Thursday, November 21, 2024