Research Excellence Awards

The BRI Research Excellence Awards, which promote the research of promising BWH junior investigators and trainees, were established in 2007 with support from a philanthropic gift from the Partners Research Accelerator Program. Originally awarded through a biannual poster competition, since 2012 the awards have been given out at Research Day/Discover Brigham held annually in the fall and are supported by the Brigham Research Institute. Recipients of the Research Excellence Awards receive a $1,000 grant to use for scientific conference travel or for research expenses; 131 awards have been made through this mechanism to this date.

2021

Mohammadmostafa (Mostafa) Asheghan, PhD; Akshaya Chandrasekaran, PhD; Krinio Giannikou, PhD; Abby Hart, BS; Rosangela Hoshi, PhD; Kyuree Kim; Katarzyna Klonowska, PhD; Ming Yang Lu, BSc; Michael McCoy, PhD

Connors-BRI Research Recognition Award: Jie (Jack) Hu, PhD

Past Awardees

2020

Marie Billaud, PhD; Leilah Grant, PhD; Jessica Harder, MD; Katarzyna Klonowska, PhD; Ming Yang Lu, BS; David-Dan Nguyen, MPH; Adriana C. Panayi, MD; Andrew Schaumberg, PhD; Anjali Devi Sivakumar, BS; Angela Zhang, BA/BS

Research Excellence Awards in Women’s Health and Gender Biology: Diane Ma, Md, PhD

 

2019
Muhammad Chaudhary, MD; Jose Halperin, MD; Charlotte Jouvene, PhD; Catherine Lee, PhD; Marlen Menlyadiev, PhD

Research Excellence Awards in Women’s Health and Gender Biology: Aviva Cohen, MD

 

2018
Hassan Aliakbarian, MD; Xianjun Dong, PhD; Mohamed Draz, PhD; Lian Folger, BA; Julie Merchant, BA; Andrew Nguyen, BS; Jennifer Stuart, ScD

 

2017
Ziad Al Tanoury, PhD; Vivek Bhaskaran, PhD; Mehmet Furkan Burak, MD; Limor Cohen, Xavier de la Rosa, PhD; Krinio Giannikou, PhD; Korneel Grauwet, PhD; Kathryn Hall, PhD, MPH; Marcia Sahaya Louis; Sayeda Yasmin-Karim, MD, PhD

 

2016
Nicola Alesi, Muhammad Ali Chaudhary, Tara Deelman, Navin Gupta, Mohammad Islam, Kimberly Johnson, Stephania Libreros Ruiz, Carmela Passaro

 

2015
Ana Paula Abreu, MD, PhD; Benjamin Freedman, PhS; Taotao Lao, PhD; Wei Li; Sahar Nissim, MD, PhD; Joana Pereira das Neves, PhD; Chuan Wu

 

2014
Jessica Allegretti , MD; Prajna Behera, MS; Choi-Fong  Cho, PhD; Devaveena Dey, PhD; Brian Fissel; Amanda  Foks, PhD; Krista Hachey, MD; Annie Lewis-O’Connor, NP, PhD, MPH; Cecilia Martin, PhD; Zehra Ordulu, MD; Arun Rooj, PhD; Jeremy Winkler, PhD; Lai-Ming Yung, PhD

 

2013
Ana Paula Abreu,  MD, PhD; Anne-Karin Arndt, MD; Julia Charles, MD, PhD; Benjamin Freedman, PhD;  Jeffrey Frost, BA;, Taotao Lao, PhD; Wei Li, Sahar Nissim, MD, PhD; Joana Pereira das Neves, PhD; Xinghui Sun, PhD; Lai-Ming Yung, PhD

 

2012
Kimberly Bertrand, ScD, MPH; Richard Burwick, MD, MPH; Katherine Gregory, PhD, RN; Basak Icli PhD; Steven Jay, PhD; Christine Guo Lian, MD; Junjie Lu, PhD; Marta McCrum, MD; Shuchi Mittal, PhD; Zehra Ordulu, MD; Hiro Tatesu, MD, PhD; Xuehong Zhang, MD, ScD; Xiaobo Zhou, PhD

 

2011
Brandon Abbs, Damir Khabibullin, Binh Nguyen MD, Lei Qin, Xinghui Sun, Yuexiang Wang, Yufei Xu

 

2009
Karla Evans, PhD; Chiara Grisanzio, MD; Salil Anil Lachke, PhD; Margaret McLaughlin-Drubin, PhD; Iman Schultz, PhD

 

2008
Benjamin E. Gewurz; Bradley A. Maron; Cysteinyl Thiol; Gabriela Orasanu; Alireza Radmanesh; Irfan Saadi; Astrid Suchy-Dicey; Polakit Teekakirikul; Cysteinyl Thiol; Hiroko Yano; Belinda Yap

 

2007
Amy Baldwin, PhD; Suzy D.C. Bianco, PhD; Zhuoxiao Cao, MD, PhD; Joshua J. Gooley, PhD; Jiali Han, PhD; Kerry Kocher; Juliet Moncaster, PhD; Sorachai  Srisuma, MD, PhD; Joseph Walpole; James Wells, PhD; Tracy Young-Pearse, PhD; Yi Yu, PhD