Rigorous science and dedication to research pay off for our trainees!
Research Associate, Sahin Lab @ Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA (Rachel Hobson)
Placement into Ph.D. program in Neurobiology at Boston University 2025 (Ethan Howell)
Invited attendee, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course on Proteomics, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 2025 (Lydia Proskauer)
Summer industrial internship, Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease, New Haven, CT 2025 (Beatriz Martinez-Martin)
Advisor, NGTx Neuroscience, Eli Lilly & Company, Seaport, MA (Narciso Pavon, Ph.D.)
UMass Honors College Research Grant 2025 (Ethan Howell)
Dr. Tracie Moniece Gibson Scholar Award, UMass Amherst 2024 (Gabriella Saint-Vil)
UMass William Lee Science Impact Program 2024 (Gabriella Saint-Vil)
NIH T32/UMASS Biotechnology Training Program UMASS Fellowship 2024-2026 (Matt Hinderhofer)
Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence and Success (SPINES), Woodshole, MA 2024 (Beatriz Martinez-Martin)
UMass IALS Translational Graduate Student Fellowship 2024-2025 (Jay English)
Postdoc fellowship, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2024 (Rebecca Sebastian, Ph.D.)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mulle Lab @ Rutgers Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 2024 (Rebecca Sebastian, Ph.D.)
American Institute of Chemists Award for a Graduate Student Showing Promise in Research 2024 (Rebecca Sebastian)
UMass IALS Undergraduate Core Summer Internship 2024 (Rachel Hobson)
Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research Summer of Science Internship 2024 (Yarah Kalae)
UMass Honors College Research Fellowship 2024 (Ethan Howell)
UMass Honors College Research Grant 2023 (Ethan Howell)
Invited Short Talk, 2023 TBCK Foundation Virtual Conference (Ethan Howell)
Senior Scientist II, Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA (Danny McSweeney, Ph.D.)
Stem Cell Research Associate, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA (Karmen Diep)
Research Assistantship, Perlis Lab @ Massachusetts General Hospital 2023 (Yoonjae Song)
Severe Mental Illness: Towards Therapeutics Stanley Center Symposium Poster teaser talk 2023 (Rebecca Sebastian)
Advanced Functional Characterization of iPSC-Derived 2D and 3D In Vitro Models at the Frontiers of Molecular Bioscience, Innovation Showcase at ISSCR, invited short talk 2023 (Jay English)
NIH T32/UMASS Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship 2023-2025 (Beatriz Martinez-Martin)
Placement into Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at Harvard University 2023 (Emily Kellogg)
Placement into Ph.D. program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at Harvard University 2023 (Juliana Babu)
Placement into Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University 2023 (Rafael Gabriel)
Office of Equity & Inclusion Travel Award to attend Faculty Women of Color in the Academy (FWCA) conference 2023 (Beatriz Martinez-Martin)
Excellence in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award 2023 (Karmen Diep)
American Institute of Chemists Award 2023 (Karmen Diep)
Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research Summer of Science Internship 2023 (Ethan Howell)
UMass Honors College Research Grant 2022 (Karmen Diep)
NIH T32/UMASS Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship 2022-2023 (Jay English)
Summer industrial internship, Eli Lily Pharmaceuticals (Cambridge, MA) 2022 (Danny McSweeney)
Summer Program in Neuroscience, Excellence and Success (SPINES), Woodshole, MA 2022 (Narciso Pavon)
In vitro 2D & 3D Neuronal Networks Summit, Maxwell biosystems user meeting, invited short talk 2022 (Danny McSweeney) – link here
UMass Honors College Research Grant 2022 (Yoonjae Song)
UMass IDGP/MCB Travel Award 2022 (Danny McSweeney)
Best poster award, UMass Amherst/Worcester BMB joint retreat 2022 (Rebecca Sebastian)
American Institute of Chemists Award for a graduate student showing promise in research 2022 (Danny McSweeney)
MDI Biological Laboratory Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy Course Scholarship 2022 (Rebecca Sebastian)
UMass William Lee Science Impact Program 2021 (Yoonjae Song)
UMass Graduate School Pre-dissertation Award 2021 (Rebecca Sebastian)
UMass Honors College Research Grant 2021 (Juliana Babu)
NIH T32/UMASS Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship 2020-2022 (Narciso Pavon)
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Award 2020 (Juliana Babu)
MDI Biological Laboratory Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy Course Scholarship 2020 (Danny McSweeney)
NIH T32/UMASS Biotechnology Training Program Fellowship 2019-2021 (Danny McSweeney)
UMass Honors College Research Assistant Fellowship 2019 (Rafael Gabriel)
Mount Holyoke College sponsored summer internship 2019 (Emily Kellogg)