Congratulations to the awardees and their faculty mentors for their hard work, as recognized by these external foundation and government awards.
Key Events
For the first time in our institution’s history, the Weill Cornell Graduate School had a dedicated ceremony to honor our graduates – 86 doctoral candidates (including the first graduate from the Houston Methodist campus) and 225 students across the MS programs.
The 2026 Convocation ceremony honored students who are graduating with their master’s and doctorate degrees, as well as those who earned special awards and prizes for their accomplishments in research, scholarship and service. The ceremony also recognized exemplary graduate school faculty.
The 2026 symposium is organized by students as always to create a forum for highlighting student research. There were 153 total presentations and the 2026 keynote address was Yale’s Dr. Rachel Perry on the interplay between insulin and cancer.
Student Grants and Awards
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- Laraib Ijaz, Neuroscience
- Stephanie Tam, PBSB
- Rebecca Wu, BCMB Allied Program
- Daniel Sen Hoi Wong, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis
- Yinuo (Cathy) Meng, BCMB Allied Program
- Kaitlyn Pierpont, Pharmacology
- Jessica White, Tri-I Computational Biology and Medicine
- Ziqi (Christine) Yu, Pharmacology
National Institutes of Health Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) program:
- Jake Qiu, Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology
- Jian Zheng, BCMB Allied Program
- Rebecca Wu, BCMB Allied Program
- Tracy Biaco, Pharmacology
- Shane Vedova, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis
- Jonathan Levine, Tri-I Computational Biology
- Eli Metzner, Tri-I Computational Biology
- Fitty Liu, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis
- Christine (Nicole) Salinas, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis
Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award Program (OSNAP):
- Daniel Barnett, Neuroscience
- Nolan Caile, Awardee, BCMB Allied Program
- Matthew Shabet, Awardee, Tri-I Computational Biology and Medicine
- Faith Veenker, Awardee, Neuroscience
- Paige Galle, Honorable Mention, Neuroscience
- Kaila Nishikawa, Honorable Mention, Tri-I Chemical Biology
- Shem Scott, Honorable Mention, BCMB Allied Program
- Gail Schor, Honorable Mention, BCMB Allied Program
- Haoyuan (Tommy) Shi, Honorable Mention, PBSB
Faculty Appointments
Congratulations and welcome to all of our newly appointed faculty.
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PhD Progams
- Mengtong Li, PhD, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis
Master’s Progams
- Aleksei Tiulpin, PhD, Biomedical Imaging
PhD Progams
- Mohamad Hamieh, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis
- Andy J. Minn, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis
- Juan Osorio, Immunology & Microbial Pathogenesis
- Alexander Galkin, Neuroscience
- Veronica Rotemberg, Tri-I Computational Biology
PhD Progams
- Caroline Pearson, Neuroscience
- Helena Furberg Barnes, Population Health Sciences
- Logan Grosenick, Tri-I Computational Biology (secondary affiliation)
- June-Koo (Jake) Lee, Tri-I Computational Biology
- Kevin Kensler, Population Health Sciences
- Laura Pinheiro, Population Health Sciences
- Shoshana Rosenberg, Population Health Sciences
Master’s Progams
- Martin R. Prince, Genetic Counseling (secondary affiliation)
- Pragya Kakani, Health Policy & Economics
- Himel Mallick, Biostatistics and Data Science
- Jialin Mao, Health Policy and Economics
- Bjorn Redfors, Health Policy and Economics
- Shuo (Mila) Sun, Biostatistics and Data Science
- Yunyu Xiao, Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence
- Yongkang Zhang, Health Policy and Economics