NIH WSA Scholar Award

Photo from Zoom of Piccus, Ryu, and Lord

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

When: April 29th, Monday from 2pm-4pm (Zoom link to be provided later)
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)

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