Present & Past Recipients of Fellowship Awards & Awards & Honors Received During The MSTP!
2015:
Fellowship Awards:
Patel, Hiren (1/2015 - 6/2016) - NIH F30 NRSA, Predoctorial Fellowship
Awards and Honors:
Foda, Zack - Invited Speaker Provost's Graduate Lecture Series
Foda, Z. - President's Award to distinguished doctoral student
Schwartz, Nicholas - NIGMS and UAB Metabolomics Workshop, Birmingham, AL
Schwartz, N. - RIKEN Brain Summer Institute Summer Program, Tokyo, Japan
Sharma, Himanshu - Bio-Techne ISSCR Travel Grant ($1,000) Award
Singleton, Courtney - 1st Place Poster Award, Laufer Center 2015 Spring Retreat
Werneburg, G. - Travel Award APSA / AAP/ ASCI
Werneburg, G. - Distinguished Travel Award SBU Graduate School and GSO to attend Gordon
Research Conference on Bacterial Cell Surfaces
Werneburg, G. - Best Poster Award, Dept. of Molecular Genetics & Micro.
Annual Retreat
2014:
Fellowship Awards:
Ballinger, Elizabeth (2014-2018)
- NIH F30 NRSA, NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship
Bhagwat, Anand
(2014 - 2018) NIH F30 NRSA, NCI Predoctoral Fellowship
Werneberg,
Glenn (2014 - 2018) NIH F30 NRSA, NIAAD Predoctoral Fellowship
Lyczek, Agatha (2014) - Polish & Slavic
Federal Credit Union Scholarship
(2014-2015) - NIH T32 MSTP NRSA
Predoctoral Training Grant Fellowship
Awards and Honors:
Carpenter, Eileen
- Travel Award ASCI/AAP Physician Scientist Joint Meeting, Chicago
Cheng, Derek - Submitted and had adopted Medical
Student Section (MSS) Resolution 36
Equal Paternal and Maternal Leave
for Med. Residents Annual AMA MSS Meeting, Chicago, IL
He, Ping - Academic Achievement Award SBU
SoM
He, P. - AAAS/Science Program for Excellence in Science award
Kazi, Rashek - Annual Glutamate Receptor Research
Symposium at Cornell U., oral presentation, Biophysical Society
Kirschen, Gregory - Academic Merit Award,
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Pillai, Rajapillai - Certificate of Appreciation for Community Service in 2013
Schwartz, Nicholas - Travel Award NIMH MD/PhD
Student Conference and Molecular Psychiatry Meeting in San Francisco
Schwartz, N. - Submitted and had adopted Medical Student Section (MSS) Resolution 36
- Equal
Paternal and Maternal Leave for Med. Residents Annual AMA
MSS Meeting, Chicago, IL
Shamseddine, Achraf - 56th Annual American
Society for Radiation Oncology meeting, San Francisco
Siller, Saul - American
Academy of Neurology, Medical Student Travel Award
Werneburg, G. - Travel Award for Central Society for Clinical and Translational Research /
Midwest American Federation for Medical Research 2014 Annual Meeting
Wysocki, Robert - Poster presentation Targeting
VEGF-mediated Tumor
Wysocki, R. - Angiogenesis in Cancer Therapy, New York Academy
of Sciences
Wysocki, R. - Best Talk at the CSHL Graduate Student Symposium
2013:
Fellowship
Awards:
Foda, Zack (2013 - 2016) - NIH F30 NRSA, NCI
Predoctoral Fellowship
Guja, Kip - (2013 - 2015) NRSA F31 NIEHS Predoctoral Fellowship
Kirschen, Gregory - Julian Sandler Fellowship,
Kesher Refuah Global Health and Cultural Connections Program
Lyczek, Agatha (2013-2017) - Thomas Shortman
Graduate Scholarship
Awards and Honors:
Adada, Mohamad - Travel Award 13th intl. conference
on Bioactive lipids in cancer, inflammation and related diseases
Adada, M. - Second place award Santosh Nigam Outstanding Young Scientist
Adada, M. - Travel Award International Ceramide Conference
Adada, M. - Best Student Oral Presentation International Ceramide Conference
Al-Shareffi, Esam - MSTP Scientific Poster
Best Presentation Award, annual Program retreat
Al-Shareffi, E. -Travel Award Glycobiology Society
Aleem, Saadat - Award for Best
Seminar Presentation, MCB, Stony Brook University
Feinstein, Igor - Elected as a senior member
of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in recognition of academic
excellence, professionalism and service in the SoM
Guja, Kip - Top Graduate Student Award, Stony
Brook University
Selected for student profile article in Medicine Today, the SBU School
of Medicine alumni magazine entitled "Kip Guja: The Making of a
21st Century Physician"
He, Ping - Academic Achievement Award, SBU
SoM
Kazi, Rashek - MSTP Scientific Best Oral Presentation
Award, annual Program retreat.
Kazi, R. - Best Paper Program in Neuroscience
Kelly, Sean - Excellence in teaching award,
SBU Department of Neuroscience
McGillick, Brian
- John Dunn Excellence Award
Patel, Hiren - Best Poster Award Winner, Chemical
Biology Discussion Group, Year-End Symposium at the New York Academy
of Sciences
Pillai, Rajapillai - Community Service Award,
Stony Brook School of Medicine
Schwartz, Nicholas - Beta Chapter of North Carolina
Tucciarone, Jason - Best Poster Award, MSTP Annual Retreat
Tucciarone, J. - Best Oral Presentation Award, SBU Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior Symposium
Wysocki, Robert - Best Poster Award, MSTP
Annual Retreat
2012:
Fellowship
Awards:
Carpenter, Eileen
(2012-2016) - NIH F30 NRSA, NCI Predoctoral Fellowship
Kelly, Sean (2012-2015) - NIH F30 NRSA, NINDS
Predoctoral Fellowship
Tucciarone, Jason (2012-2015)
- NIH F30 NRSA, NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship
Awards and Honors:
Al-Shareffi, Esam - Best Poster Award ICB
& DD Conference
Brett, Ian - MSTP Scientific Best Oral Presentation
Award, annual Program retreat.
Griffen, Trevor - MSTP Scientific Best Poster
Presentation Award, annual Program retreat
Carpenter, Eileen - Awarded Best Poster and
Travel Award at the ASCI/AAP Joint Meeting, Chicago IL
Kazi, Rashek - Education Travel Committee
Award
Kazi, R. - Biophysical Society Education
Committee Travel Award
Kazi, R. - MSTP Scientific Oral Presentation Award
Peters, Tricia - Gold Humanism Honor Society,
Stony Brook University chapter
Salussolia, Catherine
- MSTP Scientific Best Poster Presentation Award
Salussolia, C. - Provost's Graduate Student Lecture Series Speaker, SBU
Schwartz, Nicholas (2012-2014) - Stony Brook SOM Honor Code Committee
Tucciarone, Jason - Best Poster Award,
SBU Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior Symposium
Tucciarone, J. - Best Oral Presentation Award, SBU Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior Symposium
2011:
Fellowship Awards:
Kazi, Rashek (2011-2014) - NIH F30 NRSA, NINDS
Predoctoral Fellowship
Salussolia, Catherine
(2011-2014) - F31 NIH NRSA NINDS Predoctoral Fellowship
Awards and Honors
:
Al-Shareffi, Esam - Travel Award Glycobiology
Society
Carpenter, Eileen - MSTP Scientific Best Poster
Presentation Award
Feinstein, Igor - MSTP Scientific Best Oral
Presentation Award
Guja, Kip - MSTP Scientific Best Poster Presentation
Award
Salussolia, Catherine - Graduate Student Organization
Service Award
Salussolia, C. - Awarded Best Poster at the FASEB Ion Channel Regulation Conference,
Steamboat Springs, CO
Salussolia, C. - Invited Speaker in the Stony Brook University Provost's Graduate
Student Lecture Series
Salussolia, C. - Best Scientific Publication at the Symposium in Neuroscience. Salussolia
et al, J.Neuroscience 2011
2010:
Fellowship Awards:
Rodriguez, Justin (2010-2013) - NIH F31 NRSA,
NINDS Predoctoral
Salussolia, Catherine
(2010-2013) - Society for Neuroscience. Neuroscience Scholars Fellow
Awards and Honors:
Adada, Mohamad - Dean's Honor List, ranked
2nd of 90 in MS2: American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Feinstein, Igor - Competitively selected to
give one of seven hour-long lectures as part of a graduate school-wide
Provost's Graduate Lecture Series
Feinstein, I. - Award for Excellence in Advanced Teaching, Symposium in Neuroscience,
SBU
Feinstein, I. - Best Oral Presentation, Symposium in Neuroscience, Stony Brook University
Lazarus, Matthew - Society of Biological Psychiatry,
Top Poster Award for basic research
Premsrirut, Prem - Outstanding Scientific Poster
Award, SBU Genetics Graduate Program
Salussolia, Catherine - Graduate Student Organization
Service Award
Werneburg, G. - Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
2009:
Fellowship Awards:
Bukhari, Noreen
(2009-2014) - NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service (NRSA)
Predoctoral Fellowship. National Institute of Neurological Disorders
and Stroke NINDS, Bethesda, MD
Patel, Hiren - Boston Univ. UROP - Faculty Matching Grant, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
Talukder, Iehab (2009-2011) - American Heart
Association (AHA) FDA Predoctoral Fellowship
Yeku, Oladapo O.
- Van der Kloot Award for Excellence in Teaching
Awards and Honors:
Adada, Mohamad - Dean’s Honor
List, rank 2 out of 92. Medicine 1 (MS1): American University of Beirut,
Lebanon
Bukhari, Noreen - American Physician
Scientists Association $500 Inaugural Travel Award. National Cancer
Institute – National Institutes of Health
Patel, Hiren - Boston Univ. UROP - Student Research Award, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
Premsrirut, Prem - American Physician Scientists Association
$1,000 Poster Award
Premsrirut, P. - Salk Institute Mechanisms and Models of Cancer
Travel Award
Salussolia, Catherine - Service Award,
Graduate Student Organization.
Shamseddine, Achraf
- SCORE-Issam Fares Institute Research Grant
Zanazzi, George - Stony Brook University
Kevin King/John Miller Travel Scholarship Award
2008:
Fellowship Awards:
Cheney, Laura
(1/08-12/09)
- PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers
of America Fellowship
Yeku, Oladapo (2008-2010)
- NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predeoctoral
Fellowship. National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney diseases
(NIDDK). Bethesda, MD
Zanazzi, George
(2008-2010)
-
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Predoctoral
Fellowship. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Awards and
Honors:
Al-Shareffi, Esam
- Member of SoM Honor Committee
Cheney, Laura
- American Medical Association. AMA Foundation
Seed Grant.
Rodriguez, Justin - Awarded best poster
by SBU Dept Neurobiology and Behavior’s Symposium in Neuroscience
2007:
Fellowship Awards:
Yeku,
Oladapo O. - W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship
Awards and Honors:
Al-Shareffi, Esam - Member of SoM Honor Committee.
Vice
President of Note Service student-run transcription service for the
medical students
Bien,
Harold H. - President Award to Distinguished
Doctoral Dissertation Student
Bukhari, Noreen
- Award for Excellence in
Teaching, Program in Neuroscience
Siolas, Despina
C.
- Women in Cancer Research Brigid Leventhal Scholar Award. American
Association for Cancer Research
Werneburg, G. - Invited guest speaker at Brookhaven National Laboratory's closing ceremonies for interns
Zanazzi, George - Graduate Program
in Neuroscience Best Poster Award, Stony Brook University
2006:
Fellowship Awards:
Khalil, Danny N.
(2006-2009) - U.S. Dept. of Defense for Prostate Cancer Research Fellowship
Siolas,
Despina C.
(2006-2009) - U.S. Dept. of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program Idea
Award
Yeku,
Oladapo O. - W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship
Awards and Honors:
Kontorovich,
Amy R. - Finalist, Collegiate Inventors Competition. Sponsored by the
National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation and the US Patent and Trademark
Office
2005:
Fellowship Awards:
Siolas,
Despina C. -
Astra-Zeneca Scholar-in-Training Award
Yeku,
Oladapo O.
- W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship
Awards and Honors:
Bhatt, Dimple H. - MSS Research Poster Award. American
Medical Association
Peters, Tricia (2005-2009) -
NIH/Cambridge Biomedical Scholarship Award, Bethesda, MD
Rampal, Raajit - AAAS Excellence in
Science Award
Rampal, Raajit - J Biol Chem. 2005 Sep 16;280(37)
:32133-40 was selected as paper of the week by JBC
Roohi, Jasmin
- American Society of Human Genetics MD/PhD Student Travel Grant
Rosenberg, Avi Z. - DoD Breast Cancer
Predoctoral Award. Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program
(BCRP), Washington, D.C.
Siolas, Despina. -
This paper was announced to be a "ISI fast breaking paper"
Please see link for more details.
Yeku, Oladapo O.
- (2004-2005)
- Belle Zeller Scholar
Yeku, O.
- Department
of Defense Scholar
Yeku, O. -
Jonas E. Salk Fellow
Zanazzi, George - Stony Brook University School
of Medicine Dean's list
2004:
Fellowship Awards:
Bien, Harold H. (2004-2007) - NIH
NRSA - NIEHS Predoctoral Fellowship
Siolas, Despina C. - U.S. Dept. of Defense
Predoctoral Breast Cancer Fellowship
Awards and
Honors:
Bien, Harold H. - Travel Award for
International Meeting on Oscillations and Waves in Cells and Cell Networks
Gambhir, Alok - President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral
Student
Grace, Kristen S.
- Society
for Male Reproduction and Urology and the American Society of Reproductive
Medicine Traveling Scholar Award
Kontorovich,
Amy R.
(2004-2005) - Student Employee of the Year, Honorable Mention
McVoy, Lauren A.
- Chrysalis
Award to outstanding M.D./Ph.D. students interested in a career
in Allergy and Applied Immunology
Mittra, Erik S.
- Sigma
Xi Travel Award
Mittra, E.
- Graduate
Council Commendation to Distinguished Graduate Student
Mittra, E. - Sigma
Xi Award for Excellence in Reseach
Roohi, Jasmin - Cody Center Fellowship
Teressa, Getu - American Academy of Sciences,
member
Siolas, Despina C. - American Medical Association
(AMA) Leadership Award
2003:
Fellowship Awards:
Hsieh, Helen (2003-)
NIH NRSA, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
"mechanisms of abeta synaptic depression" Fellowship
LaLonde, Mary M. - NIH NINDS Predoctoral Fellowship
Ocampo, Christopher J. (2003-2006) -
Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA: Minority Predoctoral Fellowship. NIH National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Szema, Robert S. - NCIIA Advanced E-Team
Grant
Weston, Christi A. - Institute of Cellular
& Developmental Biology Predoctoral Fellowship, Stony Brook University
Awards and
Honors:
Grace, Kristen S. -
American Society of Andrology Testes Workshop Travel Award
Kamenetz,
Flavio R. - Thesis
published as featured article, Neuron, March 13th, 2003
Mittra, Erik S. - 1st Place
Poster at 29th Annual IEEE Northeast Bioengineering
Conference
Mittra,
Erik S. - Coulter
Foundation Travel Award
Mittra, E.
- Sigma
Xi Travel Award
Mittra, E.
- Paleoanthropology
Society Travel Award
Mittra, E.
- IEEE
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Travel Award
Premsrirut, Prem - CSCR Trainee Travel Award
Weston, Christi A. - Van der
Kloot Award for Excellence in Research
Yeku, Oladapo O.
- Minority
Inc. National Role Model
2002:
Fellowship Awards:
Archer, Herbert M. (2002-2004) - Department
of Defense - Breast Cancer Research Program, Predoctoral Training Grant
Awardee
Bien, Harold H. - Seed Grant; American Medical
Association Foundation, Chicago, IL
Kassem, Iris S. (2002-2005) - NINDS Predoctoral
MD/PhD National Research Service Award
Kim, Edward J. - U.S. Army Breast Cancer Research
Program Predoctoral Traineeship Award
Mittra, Erik S.
- National
Osteoporosis Foundation Mazeness Summer Fellowship
Ocampo, Christopher J. (2002-2003) - Molecular
and Cell Biology in Infectious Diseases Fellowship, Stony
Brook University: Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Awards and
Honors:
Bien, Harold H. - Travel Award; Sigma Xi,
Research Triangle Park, NC
Bien, H. - Student Paper Competition;
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), Piscataway, NJ
Grace,
Kristen S. -
Gordon Conference on Mammalian Gametogenesis & Embryogenesis Trainee
Travel Award
Manganas,
Louis N. - Sigma Xi Excellence in
Research Award
Mittra, Erik S.
- Coulter
Foundation Travel Award
Ocampo, Christopher J.
- Van der Kloot Award for Excellence in Teaching
in the Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology
2001:
Awards and
Honors:
Archer, Herbert M. - Scholar in Training Award - 92nd
Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
Manganas, Louis N.
- Excellence in Graduate Research
Award; Institute for Cellular and Developmental
Biology, Stony Brook University
Weston, Christi
A. - American Society
for Cell Biology Research Travel Award
Weston, C. - Second
Place, Poster Session for the Van der Kloot Symposium on The Molecular
Basis of Disease. Department of Physiology and Biophysics. Stony
Brook Univ.
Weston, C. - First
Place, Snapshot Contest. Department of Pharmacological Sciences. Stony
Brook University
2000:
Awards and
Honors:
DeLucia-Deranja, Evan O.
- Van der Kloot Award for Excellence in Teaching
Levine, Robert L. - Van der Kloot Award for
Excellence in Research
Manganas, Louis N.
- Sigma Xi Travel Award recipient
Ocampo, Christopher J. - Van
der Kloot Award for Excellence
Seandel, Marco - Travel Award. Society for
In vitro Biology
Seandel, M. - Honor B. Fellow Award. Society
for In vitro Biology
1999:
Fellowship Awards:
Manganas, Louis N. - Predoctoral Fellowship from The Institute
of Cell and Developmental Biology, Stony Brook University
Vankatesan, Charu - Individual Predoctoral
NRSA for M.D./Ph.D. Fellowship, NIMH
Awards and
Honors:
Bell III, James
- Van der Kloot Award for Excellence in Teaching
Kim, Edward J. -
National Dean's List
Manganas, Louis N. - American Physiological
Society Travel Award for the Biology of Potassium Channels: From Molecules
to Disease Conference
Manganas, L. - First Place Graduate
Student Presentation Award; American Physiological Society Conference
1998:
Fellowship Awards:
Levine, Robert L.
(1998-2000) - Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturer's of
America (PhRMA) Predoctoral Fellowship in Pharmacology
Indyk, Justin A. - NIH Minority Supplement
Grant. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Vankatesan, Charu (1998-2002) - Individual NRSA for M.D./Ph.D.
students. National Institute of Mental Health
Vankatesan, C. - NIH Predoctoral Training
Grant in Neurobiology & Behavior Bethesda, MD
Awards and
Honors:
Kamenetz, Flavio R. - Inductee,
Pathology Honor Society
Levine, Robert L. - Van der Kloot Award for
Excellence in Teaching
1997:
Fellowship Awards:
Dougherty, Douglas A. - Student Fellowship
Award, Education and Research Foundation of the Society of Nuclear Medicine.
The Society of Nuclear Medicine, Chicago, IL
Awards and
Honors:
Alexander, Daniela S. - President's Award for Outstanding
Doctoral Dissertation -
Honorable mention
Asch, William S. - Excellence in Graduate
Research Award
Dougherty, Douglas A. - Student
Fellowship Award, Education and Research Foundation, Society of Nuclear
Medicine
1996:
Fellowship Awards:
Dranovsky, Alexander (1996-1997) - Research
Fellowship. Long Island Alzheimer Foundation, Garden City, NY
Awards and
Honors:
Alexander, Daniela S. - The Aaron Janoff Award
for Excellence in Experimental Pathology
Dranovsky, Alexander - Glenn Foundation Scholar.
American Federation for Aging Research, New York, NY
Dranovsky, A. - Travel
Award. International Conference on Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders,
Osaka, Japan
Mittra, Erik S. - McCowen Prize for most outstanding graduating senior in
anthropology
Rogove, Andrew D. - Scholarship
for Research in the Biology of Aging. Glenn Foundation / American Federation
for Aging Research
1995:
Fellowship
Awards:
Lieberfarb, Marshal E. (1995-1996)
- Hoffman-LaRoche Predoctoral Fellowship
Awards and Honors:
Alexander, Daniela S. - Sigma Xi Travel Award and Sigma
Xi Excellence in Research Award
Janardhan, Ajit H. (1995-1997) - Biomedical
Engineering Honor Society (AEMB)
Kutok, Jeffery L. - Marvin Kuschner Award for
Outstanding Graduating Medical
School Senior, Stony Brook University
Kutok, J. - Merck Book Award for Excellence
in Medical Training, Stony Brook Univ.
1994:
Fellowship
Awards:
Lieberfarb, Marshal
E. (1994-1995) - Hoffman-LaRoche
Predoctoral Fellowship
Awards and
Honors:
Kutok, Jeffery L. - Alpha Omega Alpha Medical
Honor Society, Stony Brook University
1993:
Fellowship
Awards:
Lieberfarb, Marshal E. (1993-1994)
- Hoffman-LaRoche Predoctoral Fellowship
1992:
Awards and
Honors:
Kutok, Jeffery L. - Aaron Janoff Award for Excellence in
Experimental Pathology,
Stony Brook University
Kutok, J. - International Society
on Thrombosis and Hemostasis Young Investigator Award
1991:
Awards and Honors:
Heidelberger, Ruth - Sigma
Xi Award for Excellence in Research
1990:
Awards and Honors:
Parsons, Ramon E. - Irving
Abrahams Memorial Award for Outstanding Graduate Student
1989:
Awards and Honors:
Sanacora, Gerard - Sigma
XI, Scientific Research Society
1988:
Awards and
Honors:
Kutok,
Jeffery L. - Summa Cum Laude, Stony Brook University
Kutok, J. - Ward Melville Valedictorian
Award, Stony Brook University
Kutok, J. - Sigma Xi Excellence in
Research Award, Stony Brook University
Kutok, J. - Raymond F. Jones Award
for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Biological Sciences, Stony Brook
University
Kutok, J. - Academic Excellence Award
in Biological Sciences, Stony Brook University
Kutok, J. - Daniel Cohen Memorial Research Scholarship, Stony Brook
University
1986:
Fellowship Awards:
Heidelberger, Ruth (1986-1991) - NIMH Predoctoral Training Grant Fellowship
Awards and
Honors:
Bunz,
Fred - Phi Beta Kappa, Stony Brook University
1984:
Awards and
Honors:
Heidelberger, Ruth - Summa Cum Laude with
Departmental Honors in Chemistry
