2018 Fellows

Brett Babin, PhD
For training at Stanford University School of Medicine with Dr. Matthew Bogyo
The Role of LON Protease in Bacterial Persistence
Video: Chemical Tools for Discovering New Tuberculosis Therapies

Yiyin (Erin) Chen, MD, PhD
For training at University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine with Dr. Theodora Mauro & Dr. Michael Fischbach
Tuning Cutaneous Immunity with Commensal Skin Bacteria

Jonathan Chou, MD, PhD
For training at University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine with Dr. Felix Feng & Dr. Alan Ashworth
Understanding the Role of CDK12 in Prostate Cancer Progression and Metastasis
Video: One Size Does Not Fit All – Oncology in the Era of Precision Medicine

Amanda Janesick, PhD
For training at Stanford University School of Medicine with Dr. Stefan Heller
The Regenerative Capacity of the Chicken Cochlea Predicts the Existence of Auditory Stem Cells
Video: Regeneration of Hearing in Chickens

Michael Lawson, PhD
For training at Stanford University School of Medicine with Dr. Joseph Puglisi
Mechanistic Studies of Canonical and Premature Translation Termination in Eukaryotes
Video: Making Sense of Nonsense – Stop Codons in Cellular Life and Human Disease

Tim Machado, PhD
For training at Stanford University School of Medicine with Dr. Karl Deisseroth
Mechanisms Controlling the Flow of Information Across the Brain
Video: How the Brain Circuits Collaborate to Generate Actions

Jaison Omoto, PhD
For training at University of California, Los Angeles Geffen School of Medicine with Dr. Jeffrey Donlea
Investigating Interactions Between Sensory and Sleep Control Circuits in Drosophila
Video: Sleep vs. Wake — How Does the Brain Decide?

Arun Padmanabhan, MD, PhD
For training at University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine with Dr. Saptarsi Haldar
The Enhancer Protein BRD4 Functions as a Critical Transcriptional Coactivator during Cardiac Lineage and Cardiac Morphogenesis
Video: Towards a Blueprint for the Circuitry Governing Cardiac Muscle Formation

Sergey Stavisky, PhD
For training at Stanford University School of Medicine with Dr. Jaimie Henderson
Discovering New Movement Command Signals for People with Paralysis Using Neural Prostheses
Video: Unlocking Voices—Restoring Speech Via a Brain-Computer Interface