A primary goal of SBUR is to provide travel grants/stipends to researcher trainees. These grants are in the form of $500 payments to support travel to/from the annual meeting each fall. Award recipients must be SBUR members and a recipient is not allowed to receive the award in two consecutive years.
2017
Aymen Alqazzaz, BS
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Jason Van Batavia, MD
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
Bethany Baumann, PhD
University of Illinois
Zachary Connelly, BS
LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport
Metsiel Donate, MA
School of Pharmacy of University of Puerto Rico and Comprehensive Cancer Center UPR
Arsheed Ganaie, PhD
The Hormel Institute University of Minnesota
Sourik S. Ganguly, PhD
Van Andel Research Institute
Neeraj Kapur, PhD
Morehouse School of Medicine
Chen Hao Lo, MS
Moffitt Cancer Center
Jeremy McGuire, BS
Moffitt Cancer Center
Krizia Rohena Rivera, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Kenny Roman, PhD
Northwestern University
Mirja Rotinen, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Michael Freeman Lab
Catherine Seager, MD
Boston Children's Hospital
Gauri Shishodia, PhD
LSU Health Sciences Center
Samuel Thomas, BS
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Zongwei Wang, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Yadong Xu, BS
UPMC Shadyside
Yi Yin, MD, PhD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Mingming Zhong, PhD
UMPC Shadyside
2016
Sinead Aherne, PhD
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa
Himanshu Arora, PhD
University of Miami
Hannah Brechka, BA
University of Chicago
Mark T. Cadena
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Justin Cotellessa
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Dibash K. Das, MA
Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
Sander B. Frank, PhD
University of Arizona Cancer Center
Praveen K. Jaiswal, PhD
LSU Health Science Center
Diya B. Joseph, BS
University of Wisconsin
Alan Lombard, PhD
UC Davis
Erin McAuley, BS, MS
University of Chicago
Dalton McLean
University of Wisconsin
Xiangqi Meng, PhD
Van Andel Research Institute
Petra Popovics, PhD
University of Miami
Swathi Ramakrishnan, PhD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Fengtian Wang
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
2015
Karen Aitken, MD
SickKids Hospital
Cameron Armstrong, PhD
University of California, Davis
Zarine Balsara, MD, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital
Daniela Carreno, PhD
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Timothy Gauntner, MS
University of Illinois at Chicago
Oh-Joon Kwon, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Seok Joo Kwon, PhD
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Shyama Majumdar, PhD, MBA
University of Illinois at Chicago
David McIlwain, PhD
Indiana University School of Medicine
Kathryn Pellegrini, PhD
Emory University
Krizia Rohena-Rivera, BS
University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus
Kai Sha, PhD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Eswar Shankar, PhD
Case Western Reserve University
Aisha Siebert, MPH
University of Rochester
Bethany Smith, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Suman Suman, PhD
University of Louisville
Sam Thomas, BSC
University of Wisconsin
Jordan Vellky, BS
University of Wisconsin
Renee Vickman, PhD Candidate
Purdue University
Latanya Williams, PhD
University of Illinois
Lishi Xie, PhD
University of Illinois
2014
Arturo Araujo, PhD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
David Austin
Vanderbilt University
Melissa A. Babcook, PhD
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Sara A. Colopy, DVM, PHD, DACVS
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jennifer A. Doll
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Leigh Ellis, PhD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Daniel E. Frigo, PhD
University of Houston
Naihsuan C. Guy, MS, PhD
University of Texas at El Paso
Michael W. Hance, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina
Christina A. M. Jamieson, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Kimberly P. Keil
University of Wisconsin Madison
Chengfei Liu, MD, PhD
University of California, Davis
Lu Miao, PhD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Liu Che-Ming
China Medical University
Amy Pan
University of California, Davis
Preethi Ravindranathan, MS
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Kenny Roman, PhD
Northwestern University
Mirja Rotinen, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Liang Wang, MS
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Hironobu Yamashita, PhD
Penn State University College of Medicine
2013
Nathan A. Damaschke, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kurtis Eisermann, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Rongbin Ge, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Pranav Gupta, PhD
Morehouse School of Medicine
Subhash Haldar
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Peter C. Hollenhorst, PhD
Indiana University
Binod Kumar, PhD
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Geuntaek Lee, PhD
Rutgers, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Xue Sean Li, PhD
Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Brittany Mihelich, BS
University of Illinois at Chicago
Michael R. Miller, BS
University of Iowa
Nishit K. Mukhopadhyay, PhD
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Stephen F. Murphy, PhD
Northwestern University
Emuejevoke Olokpa, BS
Meharry Medical College
Ferenc G. Rick, MD, PhD
Miami VA Medical Center
Neha G. Sabnis, PhD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Ashleigh B. Theberge, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Zunyi Wang, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2012
Lisa Abler, PhD
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Carmen Banuelos, PhD
Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center
Jason Van Batavia, MD
Columbia University
Arun Bhardwaj, PhD
University of South Alabama
Nathaniel Brennan, PhD
Johns Hopkins
Joanne Collazo
University of Kentucky
Mehrnaz Gharaee-Kermani, DVM, MPH, PhD
University of Michigan
Magdalena Grabowska, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Donald Vander Griend, PhD
University of Chicago
Iawen Hsu, MS
University of Rochester
Sudeh Izadmehr, MS
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Yeon Suk Jung, PhD
University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey
Qi Lei
University of Pennsylvania
Scott Manson, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis
Khalid Masoodi, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Tristan Nicholson
University of Rochester
Mishra Rajeev, PhD
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Shancheng Ren, MD, PhD
Shanghai Changhai Hospital
Douglas Strand, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Lifang Yang, MD, PhD
Eastern Virginia Medical School
2011
Alyssa Cates, BS
University of Michigan
Irina Grishina, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
Simon Haile, PhD
Genome Sciences Center, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC
Wenyang Hu, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Changxue Lu
Johns Hopkins University
Larisa Nonn, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Laura Pascal, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Chen Shao, MD, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Iran Tavakoli, BSc
Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC
Jindan Yu, PhD
Northwestern University
Qiuyang Zhang, PhD
Tulane University
2010
David Barron, BS
Baylor College of Medicine
Sachin Bhusari, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Liquan Cai, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Gina CY Chu
Georgia State University; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
David DeGraff, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Omar Franco
Underserved Minority Travel Award
Vanderbilt University
Kalyan Gangavarapu, PhD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Jessica Havercamp
Purdue University
Tanisha Hutchinson, MS
Medical University of South Carolina
Shareen Iqbal
Emory University
Michelle Jones, BS
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Congxing Lin, PhD
Washington University
Freddie Pruitt
Underserved Minority Travel Award
Vanderbilt University
Aruna Ramachandran, PhD
Children's Hospital Boston
Chiuan-Ren Yeh, PhD
University of Rochester
Hifzur Siddique, MS, PhD
University of Minnesota
Brian Simons, DVM
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Conrad Valdez, BS
Underserved Minority Travel Award
University of Michigan
Zongwei Wang, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Kaijie Wu, MD, PhD Candidate
UT Southwestern
Jelani Zarif
Underserved Minority Travel Award
Michigan State Unversity
2009
Tunde Akinyeke, BS
Meharry Medical College
Helal Biswas, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Diogo Escudero, BS
University of Miami
Diego Iglesias Gato, PhD
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Dongxia Ge, MD
Tulane University; Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Rongbin Ge, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Devangini Gandhi, MS
Columbia University
Kristi Hoffman
Baylor College of Medicine
Petra Massoner, PhD
Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
Travis Jerde, PhD
Indiana University School of Medicine
Sathish Kasina, PhD
University of Michigan
Raj Kumar, PhD
University of Kentucky
Zhiyong Liao, PhD
Thomas Jefferson University
Tristan Nicholson, BS
University of Rochester Medical Center
Matthew Tanner, PhD
Ordway Research Institute
Gerald Verhaegh, PhD
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Shuanzeng Wei, BM, PhD
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Daxing Xie, MD, PhD
UT Southwestern
Yu Zeng, PhD, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2008
Govindaraj Anumanthan, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Ming Chen, MS
University of Rochester
Dolores Di Vizio, MD, PhD
Children’s Hospital-Boston
David S. Finley, MD
UC Irvine
Rongbin Ge, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Kathryn M. Gonyea
University of Pittsburgh
Simon Haile, PhD
Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
Sazzad Hassan, MD, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Roger Jackson, PhD
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Srinivas Koduru, PhD
University of Kentucky
Nagalakshmi Nadiminty, PhD
UC Davis Medical Center
Sanjeev Shukla, PhD
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Hana Odeh, PhD
University of Michigan Medical School
Hong Pu, PhD
University of Kentucky
Judit Ribas, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Victoria L Robinson, PhD
University of Chicago
Shyh-Han Tan, PhD
Center for Prostate Disease Research
Manisha Tripathi, MS
Vanderbilt University
Suresh Veeramani, PhD
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Veronica Yao, PhD
University of Pittsburgh
Xiang Zhang, PhD
University of Cincinnati
2006
Adebusola Alagbala, BS
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Mingfang Ao, PhD
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Beverly Barton, PhD
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Bekir Cinar, PhD
Children’s Hospital – Boston
Lara Collier, MD
University of Minnesota
Barbara Comuzzi, PhD
Genome Sciences Center
David DeGraff, BS
University of Delaware
Vivian Fu, MS
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Arundhati Ghosh, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Kenichiro Ishii, PhD
Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
Marilyn Lamm, PhD
Children's Memorial Research Center
Geun Taek Lee, PhD
Division of Urologic Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Jonathan Levitt, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Hongyun Li MD, PhD
Center for Prostate Disease Research
Abdo Najy, BS
University of Michigan
Srinivas Nandana, MS
Vanderbilt University
Freddie L. Pruitt, III
University of Delaware
Veronica Placencio, BS
Vanderbilt University
Douglas Strand, BS
Baylor College of Medicine
J. Erin Tillman, BS
Vanderbilt University
