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Our students frequently receive recognition for their achievements both from Baylor College of Medicine as well as from other institutions and organizations. Below is a listing of some of the awards and honors they have earned in recent years.
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| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
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| Ruu Hsu | Awarded Kids Beating Cancer Emerging Scientist Grant | Kids Beating Cancer |
| Matthew McAlister | 2nd Place Speaker Award | BCM Molecular and Human Genetics Annual Retreat |
| English Laserna | 1st Place Talk | 35th Annual Research Symposium at BCM |
| English Laserna | International Scholar Award ($25,000) | Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) |
| English Laserna | The 66th McKusick Short Course Educational Travel Award | Jackson Laboratory |
| English Laserna | People’s Choice Award | American Society of Microbiology-Texas Medical Center Image Contest |
| English Laserna | 1st Place Speaker Award | BCM Molecular and Human Genetics Annual Retreat |
| Brooke Horist | 3rd Place Speaker Award | BCM Molecular and Human Genetics Annual Retreat |
| Nathalie Aceves | Selected as Predoctoral Finalist | 2025 ASHG Trainee Research Excellence Award |
| Anna Burkhalter | 2025 BP America Biomedical Scholar | BP America Biomedical Scholar Endowment |
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| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
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| Jake Chamblee | National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship | NSF Graduate Fellowship Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) |
| Christiana Wang | David L. Rimoin Inspiring Excellence Award from the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics Foundation | 2024 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting |
| Gwendolynn Hummel | Fulbright Scholar 2024-2025 | Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award Board |
| Gwynna Fuller | Best Student Poster Award | Society for Developmental Biology 83rd Annual Meeting |
| Ruu Hsu | Travel Award Recipient | 2024 Annual Meeting Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention |
| Janel Peterson | Best Basic Science Oral Presentation | 14th International Myotonic Dystrophy Consortium Meeting, The Netherlands |
| English Laserna | BRASS Outstanding Community Scholar of the Year | Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo |
| English Laserna | 3rd Place Speaker Award | BCM Clinical Translational Research Certificate of Added Qualification (CTR-CAQ) Third Annual Retreat |
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| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
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| Dipak Patel | AHA Predoctoral Fellowship 2024-2026 | American Heart Association |
| Fisher Cherry | GSBS Busch-80 Scholarship Award | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Katherine Pendleton | 3rd Place Elevator Pitch Competition | BCM Graduate Student Symposium |
| Harini Tirumala | 1st Place Platform Speaker | BCM Graduate Student Symposium |
| Katarzyna Kent | Best Poster Presentation | BCM Department of Pathology and Immunology Trainee Research Symposium |
| Dharaniya Sakthivel | Poster Presentation - Honorable Mention | Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center 18th Annual Research Symposium |
| Dharaniya Sakthivel | Featured Book Chapter - Honorarium | Elsevier Inc. |
| Ruu Hsu | CPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2023-2025 | Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas |
| Eric Garcia | Baylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) Scholar | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Paige Hall | Baylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) Scholar | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Michal Tyrlik | Baylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) Scholar | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Janel Peterson | Best Poster Presentation | Annual Frontiers in Digestive Diseases Symposium |
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| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
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| Emily Busse | BP America Biomedical Scholarship | BP America Endowment |
| Catherine Bradley | 2nd place platform speaker | BCM Graduate Student Symposium |
| Harini Pallikarana Tirumlala | 2nd place poster presentation | BCM Graduate Student Symposium |
| Katarzyna Kent | Post Award for Research Relevant to Contraceptive Research and Development | Gates Foundation |
| Morgan Stephens | F31 Fellowship "Investigating the Role of the Cytoskeleton" | National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
| Katherine Pendleton | Award: F31 fellowship "Investigating the role of CRAT as a driver of triple negative breast cancer chemoresistance" | National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute |
| Janel Peterson | Best Research Poster Presentation | Department of Pathology & Immunology Trainee Research Symposium |
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| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
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| Moez Dawood | CPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2021-2023 | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas |
| Andrew Yang | CPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2021-2023 | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas |
| Adam Weinstein | Honorable Mention-Oral Presentation | Dan L. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Symposium 2021 |
| Owen Hirschi | F31 Fellowship "Germline Structural Variant Identification and Functional Determination in Childhood Cancer" - F31CA265163 | National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute |
| Dharaniya Sakthivel | CPRIT Predoctoral Training Grant 2021-2023 | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas |
| Varuna Chander | Third Place, Three Minute Thesis Competition | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Timothy Abreo | Predoctoral Research Fellowship | American Epilepsy Society |
| Venkatasubramaniam Sundaramurthy | Predoctoral Fellowship | American Heart Association |
| Cathy Bradley | First Place Oral Presentation | BCM, Medical Scientist Training Program Symposium 2021 |
| C. Grant Mangleburg | Third Place Oral Presentation | BCM, Medical Scientist Training Program Symposium 2021 |
| Varuna Chander | Semifinalist, Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics | American Society of Human Genetics 2021 |
| English Laserna | Baylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) Scholar | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Apoorva Thatavarty | Baylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) Scholar | Baylor College of Medicine |
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| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
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| Christina Magyar | McNair M.D./Ph.D. Scholar | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Andrew Yang | BP America Biomedical Scholar Endowment | Baylor College of Medicine |
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| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
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| Pamela Lurie | Third Place, Three Minute Thesis Competition | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Brian St. Hilaire | Gilliam Graduate Fellowship | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Hadley Sheppard | F31 Fellowship "Investigating the therapeutic wind within brachyury upstream regulation of chordoma" - F31CA236130 | National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute |
| Varuna Chander | Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Fellowship RFA in Precision Medicine and Population Health Initiative | National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health Baylor College of Medicine |
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| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
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| Bradley, Catherine | McNair M.D./Ph.D. Scholar Award | Robert and Janice McNair Foundation/McNair Medical Institute M.D./Ph.D. Scholars Program |
| Dodson, Lois | F31 Fellowship | National Heart. Lung and Blood Institute |
| Hansen, Adam | RFA in Precision Medicine and Population Health Initiative | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Jolly, Angad | Invited Platform Speaker | American Society of Human Genetics |
| Khayat, Michael | RFA in Precision Medicine and Population Health Initiative | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Lurie, Pamela | Funding on the T32 Hematology Training Program | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases |
| Meyer, Kristen | Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Trainee Travel Fund Award | International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation |
| Oaks, Ninad | Third Place for Trainee Poster Presentation | 25th Anniversary Texas Children's Research Symposium |
| Sisoudiya, Saumya | CPRIT Comprehensive Cancer Training Fellowship for 2018-2020 | CPRIT |
| Song, Xiaofei | Registration Bursary | Genomics of Rare Disease Meeting |
| Ye, Hui | Travel Grant Award | International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders |
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| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
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| Dodson, Lois | First Place, Trainee Poster Presentation | Texas Children’s Hospital Research Symposium |
| Hsieh, Yi-Chen | Trainee Professional Development Award | Society of Neuroscience |
| Jolly, Angad | Invited Poster Presenter | American Society of Human Genetics |
| Meyer, Kristen | Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD F30 Fellowship “Impact of Breast Milk on the Developing Infant Microbiome” - 1F30HD090891-01 | National Institutes of Health |
| Meyer, Kristen | FASEB Young Investigator Travel Award | Origins and Benefits of Biologically Active Components of Human Milk, Lisbon, Portugal |
| Sisoudiya, Saumya | Semifinalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics | American Society of Human Genetics |
| Song, Xiaofei | Bravo Award | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Song, Xiaofei | Scholarship for CSHL Course, High-Throughput Biology: From Sequence to Networks | Helmsley Foundation |
| Wang, Li | Travel Scholarship | Keystone Symposium on Synapses and Circuits; Formation, Function and Dysfunction |
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| Recipient | Award | Organization/Event |
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| Agrawal, Smriti | Gordon Research Conference Travel Award | Gordon Visual Systems Development Conference |
| Agrawal, Smriti | Society of Developmental Biology Travel Award | Gordon Visual Systems Development Conference |
| Agrawal, Smriti | Emerging Trends and Hot Topics Award | Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology |
| Agrawal, Smriti | Best Poster Award in Retinal Cell Biology | Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology |
| Agrawal, Smriti | Nominated, Members-in-Training Award in Vision Research | Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology |
| Bochkov, Ivan | John J. Trentin Scholarship Award | Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine |
| Gundry, Michael | Graduate Student Mentor of the Year (2nd place) | Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine |
| Gundry, Michael | Innovation of the Year (co-awarded with Lorenzo Brunetti | Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine |
| Han, Seung | Poster Award | Koreans Scientists and Engineers Association |
| Hsieh, Yi-Chen | Travel Fellowship | Alzheimer's Association International Conference |
| Hunt, Patrick | Baylor Research Advocates for Student Scientists (BRASS) Scholar | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Iyer, Amrita | Travel Grant for Oral Presentation | 13th International Congress on Human Genetics, Kyoto, Japan |
| Jones, Evan | Fellowship, Training Program in Biomedical Informatics | National Library of Medicine |
| Siehr, Meagan | Pre-doctoral Fellowship | American Epilepsy Society |
