Awards
If you have been awarded a grant or fellowship, please contact Daniel Jay, Postdoctoral Officer, at daniel.jay@tufts.edu to share your accomplishments.
LIST OF AWARDS
February – March 2013
Jerome Clasadonte (Haydon Lab)
Won travel award to present poster entitled "Astrocytes are required for the progressive development of epilepsy" at Curing the Epilepsies 2013: Pathways Forward Conference in April.
Daniel Lobo (Levin Lab)
Lobo D., Malone TJ, Levin M. “Planform: a software tool for visualizing, curating, and mining regenerative experiments", Tufts Research Visualization Awards, software, 2nd place, Tufts University, 2013
Anna Osherov (Panzer Lab)
Awardee of the Weizmann Institute of Science – National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science
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December 2012 – January 2013
Elsa Bou Ghanem (Leong Lab)
Awarded the Abbott Nutrition Research Grant, ASPEN Rhoads Foundation for her project “Vitamin E Reverses age-associated susceptibility to Streptococcus pneumoniae lung infection”.
Georgina Mackenzie (Maguire Lab)
Awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Epilepsy Foundation for her research “Investigating the mechanism of stress induced seizure susceptibility”.
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September – November 2012
Sarah Craven Seaton (Levy Lab)
Awarded a NIFA postdoctoral fellowship through the US Department of Agriculture.
Stéphanie Trouche (Reijmers Lab)
Accepted a position as Investigator Scientist in Oxford, UK.
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July – August 2012
Selena Ahmed (Orians Lab)
Awarded a travel grant by Program 111 in Ethnobiology/Chinese Ministry of Education to present research findings at the 6th National Symposium on Ethnobotany and the 5th Asia-Pacific Forum on Ethnobotany at the Yinchuan Medical University, China in August 2012.
Raveendhara Bannuru (Tufts CTSI)
Awarded a National Research Service Award Health Services Research Fellowship (F32), titled “A network meta-analysis of pharmacological interventions for knee osteoarthritis” from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Janna Bigalke (Heldwein Lab)
Received a fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Shaun Brinsmade (A.L. Sonenshein Lab)
Awarded an NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99), titled "Integrating Global Responses to Nutrient Limitation in Gram-positive Bacteria" from NIH/NIGMS.
Jason Kuehner (Moore Lab)
Starting a faculty position at Emmanuel College in September.
Jessica McCready (Kuperwasser Lab)
Starting a faculty position at Assumption College in September.
Fathima Nazeer (Moore Lab)
Awarded an American Cancer Society Fellowship to start Sept. 1.
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May – June 2012
Selena Ahmed (Orians Lab)
Awarded a Tufts Collaborates Seed Grant as a Co-PI for the project titled "Impact of Climate Variability on Tea Quality" along with PI Colin Orians (Biology) and Co-PIs Timothy Griffin (Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy), Albert Robbat (Chemistry) and David Small (Civil and Environmental Engineering).
Kelly Burke (Kaplan Lab)
Awarded a National Research Service Award Fellowship (F32), titled “In vitro Type Two Diabetes Mellitus Tissue Model to Investigate Insulin Resistance” from NIH/NIDDK.
Thomas A. Bowman, PhD (Greenberg lab)
Awarded a National Research Service Award Fellowship (F32), titled "Role of Perilipin in Hepatic Steatosis and Metabolism" from NIH/NIDDK.
Oya Cingoz (Coffin Lab)
Awarded the inaugural "Uta von Schwedler Prize" for Retrovirology at the Cold Spring Harbor Retroviruses meeting, May, 2012.
Received the Dean's Award from the Sackler School (as a student), May, 2012.
Caroline Dahlberg
Received a travel grant from the Natalie Zucker grant for Women in Research, and will be using the funds to go to a Gordon Research Conference this summer.
Jane Kim (Mirkin Lab)
Awarded a research grant from the Natalie V. Zucker Research Center for Women Scholars at Tufts University, which will be used towards attending the three-week long Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory summer course "Yeast genetics and genomics."
Raveendhara Bannuru (Tufts CTSI)
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Received a travel award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to attend the 18th Annual AHRQ National Research Services Award Trainees Research Conference in Orlando, FL, June 2012.
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Recognized as a superior reviewer by The Journal of General Internal Medicine, the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Only handful of reviewers from over 1000 people achieved this.
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Was interviewed by Reuters regarding his work on prostate cancer and the story was published on several websites including Reuters.com
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Selected to be a Core Expert Panel Member and Evidence Synthesis Group Lead of Osteoarthritis Treatment Guideline Development Group (OAGDG) for Osteoarthritis Research Society International.
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Selected to be a Core Expert Panel Member of American College of Rheumatology Committee to evaluate appropriateness of the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound in rheumatology practice.
Xingmin Sun (Sun Lab)
Received a Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01), titled "Signaling pathway of TNF-alpha production and Clostridium difficile infection (CDI)" from NIH/NIDDK.
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March – April 2012
Shonna McBride (A. Sonenshein Lab)
Obtained a faculty position: Assistant Professor, Emory University, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
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February 2012
Selena Ahmed (Orians Lab)
Ranked First Place for Strongest Teacher Rating and Course Evaluation in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Northeastern University for Fall 2011 Semester for the "Eating and the Environment" Course.
Vaibhav Pai (Levin Lab)
Research was mentioned in several magazine articles:
Science Magazine, Forbes Magazine, ScienceNews Magazine, PhysOrg.com.
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January 2012
Selena Ahmed (Orians Lab)
Research was mentioned in a news story titled “Tapping the Best Minds” in China’s Global Times, January 11, 2012.
Raveendhara Bannuru (Tufts CTSI)
Received a travel award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to attend the 17th Annual AHRQ National Research Services Award (NRSA) Trainees Research Conference in Seattle, WA.
Rohini Vishwanathan (Tang Lab)
Was one of the top five finalists in the PepsiCo Nutrition Research Competition (for graduates and post doctoral researchers worldwide to scientifically define ‘a serving of fruit and vegetable’), 2011.
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November and December 2011
Kyle P. Quinn, PhD (Kaplan lab)
National Research Service Award Fellowship (F32), titled "Non-invasive optical biomarkers to quantify engineered bone tissue development" from NIH/NIAMS.
Laura Schaevitz (Berger-Sweeney lab)
Received a travel award to attend the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Conference in Washington D.C.
Lucia Speroni (Soto and Sonnenschein labs)
Art BeCAUSE – Seed the Scientist Award, 2011.
Rohini Vishwanathan (Tang lab)
Awarded the Howard Medal for the best poster, 1st Macular Carotenoids and AMD conference, Cambridge, UK, 2011.
Kendall Walker (Tesco lab)
Awarded a travel grant to attend this year’s National Neurotrauma Meeting and awarded the Anthony Marmarou Award at the conference.
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