Congratulations to Aakanksha Rajiv Kapoor | PhRMA Foundation Fellowship in Drug Discovery, awarded January 2023 | BCMB
Allied PhD Program | Mentored by Vivek Mittal at Weill Cornell Medicine | “Determine Mechanisms by Which
Club Cell Secreted Proteins Inhibit Myeloid-derived Suppressor Cells to Increase Efficacy of Immunotherapy in
Lung Cancer
Congratulations to Mildred Unti | Moderna Fellowship, awarded February 2023 | Pharmacology PhD Program | Mentored by
Samie Jaffrey at Weill Cornell Medicine | “Creating a novel system for translation of a circular RNA”
Weill Cornell Graduate School congratulates our current graduate students who received award offers and honorable mention recognition in the 2023 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
Celeste Parra Bravo, Jasmine Shahanoor, and Berkiye Sonustun in the Neuroscience PhD program at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences have each been awarded the Dompe Foundation’s Rita L. Montalcini Scholarship! The Rita L. Montalcini Scholarship is a competitive 3-year $25,000 annual scholarship awarded to exceptional Master’s and PhD students in Neuroscience and/or Neurobiology at United States universities.
Congratulations to Ahmed Mahmoud and adviser Dr. Karuna Ganesh and Ife Akano and adviser Dr. Yael David on receiving the prestigious Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Weill Cornell leads all NYC institutions in NIH Fellowship funding surpassing Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
