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AWARDS
Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research
This top award honors the outstanding accomplishments of a postdoctoral scholar participating in the
Postdoctoral Certificate Training Programs of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Nominations are
sought from faculty members and postdoctoral scholars and finalists are interviewed by the Committee on
Graduate School Awards. The committee chooses the awardee based on the scholar’s creativity, productivity
during postdoctoral training, presentation skills and potential of an outstanding independent research
path and on his or her research project’s originality, depth, and documented scientific impact. The award
includes $2000 and presentation of the University Lecture the week following the Awards Reception.
Susanne Mumby, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean of Postdoctoral Affairs
2011 Finalists for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research
William Holland, Ph.D.
Dept. of Internal Medicine
Mentor: Philipp Scherer, Ph.D.
Viviana Moresi, Ph.D.
Dept. of Molecular Biology
Mentor: Eric Olson, Ph.D.
Carrie Partch, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biochemistry
Mentor: Kevin Gardner, Ph.D.
Tongjin Zhao, Ph.D.
Dept. of Molecular Genetics
Mentor: Joseph Goldstein, M.D.
Previous winners of the Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research:
2010 Lit-Hsin Loo, Ph.D. Dept. of Pharmacology Mentor: Lani Wu, Ph.D. &
Steven Altschuler, Ph.D.
2008 Shusheng Wang, Ph.D. Dept. of Molecular Biology Mentor: Eric Olson, Ph.D.
2007 Angelique Whitehurst, Ph.D. Dept. of Cell Biology Mentor: Michael White, Ph.D.