Grants listed are for awards made in FY 2011. Payments were made or began (for multiyear grants) in FY 2011, unless otherwise noted.
Graduate and Medical Education Programs
2011 International Student Research Fellowships (Two- or three-year grants)
- Sebastian Ahrens (Germany)
- Northwestern University
- El-ad David Amir (Israel)
- Columbia University
- Hugo Arellano-Santoyo (Mexico)
- University of Washington
- Nataly Cabili (Israel)
- Harvard University
- Ana Calabrese (Argentina)
- Columbia University
- Sriram Chandrasekaran (India)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Peter Cimermancic (Slovenia)
- University of California, San Francisco
- Le Cong (China)
- Harvard University
- Marc Coutanche (United Kingdom)
- University of Pennsylvania
- Jing-yu Cui (China)
- Stanford University
- Josefina Ines del Marmol (Argentina)
- The Rockefeller University
- Eran Eldar (Israel)
- Princeton University
- Jing Fan (China)
- Princeton University
- Mehmet Fisek (Turkey)
- Harvard University
- Weihua Guan (China)
- Yale University
- Wei Guo (China)
- Boston University
- Wenqi Han (China)
- Yale University
- Ya-Chi Ho (Taiwan)
- Johns Hopkins University
- Andreas Hoenselaar (Germany)
- California Institute of Technology
- Marguerite Hood (Canada)
- Vanderbilt University
- Ankit Jain (India)
- University of Pennsylvania
- Sebastian Kopf (Germany)
- California Institute of Technology
- Sascha Kopic (Austria)
- Yale University
- Hojoong Kwak (Korea)
- Cornell University
- Jeffrey Lin (Canada)
- University of Washington
- Marcus Long (United Kingdom)
- Brandeis University
- Jatin Narula (India)
- Rice University
- Chawita Netirojjanakul (Thailand)
- University of California, Berkeley
- Carlos Pardo-Martin (Spain)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Wendy Peh (Singapore)
- Duke University
- Nicolas Pelaez Restrepo (Colombia)
- Northwestern University
- Jonathan Rameseder (Austria)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Daria Rylkova (Canada)
- Johns Hopkins University
- Laura Sasportas (France)
- Stanford University
- Andrey Selyunin (Russian Federation)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
- Ying Qi Shirleen Soh (Singapore)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Peter Sudmant (Canada)
- University of Washington
- Shengyi Sun (China)
- Cornell University
- Constantin Nicolae Takacs (Romania)
- The Rockefeller University
- Oscar Tarazona (Colombia)
- University of Florida
- Amanda Valeta (Zimbabwe)
- New York University
- Kliment Verba (Russian Federation)
- University of California, San Francisco
- Chaolong Wang (China)
- University of Michigan
- Jianbin Wang (China)
- Stanford University
- Xuebing Wu (China)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Jie Xu (Canada)
- University of Pennsylvania
- Wing Sze Wendy Yue (Hong Kong)
- Johns Hopkins University
- Joel Leon Zylberberg (Canada)
- University of California, Berkeley
2011–2012 Medical Research Fellows
Initial Awards: First Year of Research
- Ameer Abutaleb
- University of Maryland School of Medicine
- (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
- Marcus Alexander
- Stanford University School of Medicine
- Mohammed Aslam
- University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio
- (Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine)
- Dana Balitzer
- University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
- Jacob Berchuck*
- Duke University School of Medicine
- Sharath Bhagavatula
- New York University School of Medicine
- Sarah Bourne
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- (Harvard Medical School)
- Matthew Britton
- Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
- (Janelia Farm Research Campus)
- Samuel Brondfield
- University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
- Antonios Charokopos
- Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
- (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine)
- Ayan Chatterjee
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- (Harvard Medical School)
- YunXiang Chu
- Harvard Medical School
- Julien Cobert
- Duke University School of Medicine
- (Harvard Medical School)
- Roxana Daneshjou
- Stanford University School of Medicine
- Scott DeRoo
- University of Michigan Medical School
- Christine Eckhardt
- Harvard Medical School
- Lilangi Ediriwickrema*
- Yale School of Medicine
- Patrick Emelife
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Adam Forshaw
- University of New Mexico School of Medicine
- Jeffrey Futterleib
- Yale School of Medicine
- Brandon Gardner
- The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
- Yaroslav Gelfand
- Weill Cornell Medical College
- William Gostic
- Harvard Medical School
- Matthew Grosso
- Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
- (Hospital for Special Surgery)
- Eugene Gu
- Duke University School of Medicine
- (Stanford University School of Medicine)
- Clayton Haldeman
- Yale School of Medicine
- Frank Hebroni
- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Moira Hilscher
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Benjamin Himes
- Yale School of Medicine
- Antony Hsieh
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School)
- Grace Hsieh
- Harvard Medical School
- Christopher Jackson
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Arman Jahangiri
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School
- (University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine)
- Deeptee Jain
- Duke University School of Medicine
- Tom Ju
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School
- Brian Kalish
- Harvard Medical School
- Sophia Kamran
- Harvard Medical School
- Kai Kang
- Weill Cornell Medical College
- Vivek Kanumuri
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey—New Jersey Medical School
- (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)
- Jesse Karmazin
- Stanford University School of Medicine
- Jerard Kneifati-Hayek
- Weill Cornell Medical College
- (Hospital for Special Surgery)
- Martin Krupa*
- University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
- Wen-Shin Lee
- Harvard Medical School
- Alexandra Livanos
- New York University School of Medicine
- Christopher Lord
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Preethi Mani
- Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
- Joel Martin
- Duke University School of Medicine
- Michael (Tre) Martyn
- Harvard Medical School
- Alexander Marzuka
- Yale School of Medicine
- Akshitkumar Mistry
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Shane Morrison
- Stanford University School of Medicine
- Carson Moseley
- University of Alabama School of Medicine
- Laura Ostapenko
- Dartmouth Medical School
- (Harvard University School of Public Health)
- Joseph Oved
- New York University School of Medicine
- Alec Palmerton
- Stanford University School of Medicine
- Babita Panigrahi
- Yale School of Medicine
- (Janelia Farm Research Campus)
- Samira Rathnayake
- University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
- Jarred Reed
- Duke University School of Medicine
- David Roy
- Weill Cornell Medical College
- (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)
- Alexander Sheu
- Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine
- Valeriy Shubinets
- Harvard Medical School
- Lauren Smith
- Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine
- David Soleimani-Meigooni
- University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
- Yash Somnay
- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
- Adria Suarez
- Duke University School of Medicine
- Andrew Sung
- University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
- (Janelia Farm Research Campus)
- Reyna Swift
- University of Washington School of Medicine
- Rabi Upadhyay
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
- (Harvard Medical School)
- Meghan Woolley
- University of Utah School of Medicine
- Karen Yan
- Stanford University School of Medicine
- Alvin Yu
- Harvard Medical School
- John Zampella
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Continued Awards: Second Year of Research
- Sarah Sunshine*
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
HHMI-NIH Research Scholars†
- Vinita Alexander
- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
- Leonardo Aliaga‡
- The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
- Monique Anderson
- University of Virginia School of Medicine
- Swathi Appachi
- Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
- William Arscott
- University of Vermont College of Medicine
- Erica Braverman
- The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
- Vivek Buch
- The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
- Bharat Burman‡
- Tufts University School of Medicine
- Benjamin Chaon
- University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
- Viola Chen
- Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Jason Cho
- State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine
- Lucy Chow
- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- David Clever
- Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health
- Esmaeel Dadashzadeh
- Wayne State University School of Medicine
- Chandan Das‡
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Brennan Decker
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Farhoud Faraji‡
- Saint Louis University School of Medicine
- Lynn Frydrych
- University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
- Dennis Hsu
- Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
- Emory Hsu
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Blake Jones
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
- Alexander Kotlyar
- Dartmouth Medical School
- Ashley Lawler
- University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
- Evan Lebovitz
- Dartmouth Medical School
- Janet Lee
- Duke University School of Medicine
- Talya Lepow
- University of Arizona College of Medicine
- Kabir Matharu
- University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
- Nino Mihatov
- Duke University School of Medicine
- James Morrow
- Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
- Seung Ha Nam
- University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine
- Cecilia Ong
- Duke University School of Medicine
- Stanley Park
- Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health
- Talia Rosenberg
- Yale School of Medicine
- Grace Shih
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Adrienne Smith
- Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine
- Robert Sonn
- State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine
- Paul Su
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
- Ashley Talley
- Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine
- Alison Tarbell
- University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine
- Amiko Uchida
- University of Utah School of Medicine
- Vadim Villarroel
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Alanna Windsor
- Harvard Medical School
- Lindsey Wu
- Duke University School of Medicine
- Donald Ye
- Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
- Hesham Zakaria
- George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Kreshnik Zejnullahu
- University of Massachusetts Medical School
James H. Gilliam Jr. Fellowships for Advanced Study
(Payments to be made in FY 2012)
- Nicolas Altemose
- Oxford University
- Andria Ashmore
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Nadia Herrera
- California Institute of Technology
- Jessica Cabral Jimenez
- Columbia University
- Sandra Jones
- The Rockefeller University
- Benyam Kinde
- Harvard Medical School
- Espoir Kyubwa
- University of California, San Diego
- Chinweike Okegbe
- Columbia University
- Gloria Tavera
- Case Western Reserve University
Other Graduate Science Education Awards
- The Jackson Laboratory
- Bar Harbor, Maine
- Grant: Graduate and Postgraduate Educational Programs
- $450,000 (Four-year grant)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Cold Spring Harbor, New York
- Grant: Graduate and Postgraduate Educational Programs
- $675,000 (Four-year grant)
- Marine Biological Laboratory
- Woods Hole, Massachusetts
- Grant: Graduate and Postgraduate Educational Programs
- $900,000 (Four-year grant)
Precollege and Undergraduate Science Education Program
HHMI’s Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP)
- David Albores
- Cornell University
- Jawara Allen
- Duke University
- Jorge Alvarado
- Amherst College
- Visham Appadoo
- Vassar College
- Mark Araujo
- Emory University
- Maria Ayala Ramirez
- Mount Holyoke College
- Julian Baptiste
- University of Pittsburgh
- Jose Gabriel Barcia Duran
- Yale University
- Donald Bryant
- Emory University
- Stephen Canton
- University of Pittsburgh
- Isadora Cerullo
- Columbia College, Columbia University
- Jun Chen
- City University of New York Hunter College
- Jessica Coates
- Spelman College
- Nicolas Contreras
- Gonzaga University
- Joseph Donohue-Torres
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- Sabrina Dumas
- University of Arizona
- Ricardo Dunmoodie
- Morehouse College
- Jessica Franco
- University of Arizona
- Kimberly Frutoz
- University California, Los Angeles
- Ariel Garcia
- Purdue University Main Campus
- Sarah Gordon
- Columbia University
- Daniel Gutierrez
- San Jose State University
- Usman Hameedi
- Brandeis University
- Hayden Hatch
- Harvey Mudd College
- Rebecca Hernandez
- Rice University
- Leslie Higuita Montoya
- Furman University
- James Hill
- Duke University
- Meryl Horn
- City University of New York Hunter College
- Tien-Phat Huynh
- University California, Los Angeles
- Oladoyin Iranloye
- North Carolina Central University
- Michael Ishida
- California State University, Fullerton
- Sharese Jefferson
- College of William and Mary
- Sorna Kamara
- Georgetown College
- Kayla Lee
- Hampton University
- Angel Leiva
- University of Miami
- Tiffany Lemon
- Louisiana State University and A & M College
- Diana Lenis
- Stony Brook University
- Jian Li
- Yale University
- Kristine Lyon
- Lewis and Clark College
- Seshat Mack
- Howard University
- Richard Maduka
- University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Brenda Marin-Rodriguez
- University of California-Davis
- Carlos Marti
- University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus
- Rey Martin
- University California, Los Angeles
- Rosa Martinez
- University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus
- Daniel Mendez
- California State University, Fullerton
- Emmanuel Mendoza
- University of California, Davis
- Cristina Murphy
- Louisiana State University and A & M College
- Martin Mwangi
- University California, Los Angeles
- Maria Nguyen
- Oregon State University
- Kaitlyn Norman
- New Mexico State University Main Campus
- Fiona Odu
- University of Missouri-Columbia
- Alejandra Olvera
- Wesleyan University
- Fabian Ortega
- Yale University
- Jennifer Ortega
- Haverford College
- Gerneiva Parkinson
- Howard University
- Carlos Peinado
- University of California-San Diego
- Fernando Pimentel
- Stanford University
- Karolina Puskarczyk
- Duke University
- Sofia Quinodoz
- Princeton University
- Ryan Quiroz
- University California, Los Angeles
- Gabriel Rangel
- Purdue University Main Campus
- Samuel Regalado
- University of California-Berkeley
- Donald Richards
- University of California-Riverside
- Shamera Robinson
- Spelman College
- Lauren Rodriguez
- University of California-Santa Cruz
- Juan Ruiz
- University of Miami
- Taibat Salami
- Wellesley College
- Angelica Simmons
- Louisiana State University and A & M College
- Charesa Smith
- Harvard University
- Patrice Starck
- University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Jordyn Talley
- University of North Texas
- Tigist Tamir
- College of William and Mary
- Theodor Uzamere
- Morehouse College
- Arielle Valdez
- Boston University
- Alana Van Dervort
- Florida International University
- Yorleny Vicioso
- Stony Brook University
- Isaiah Woodson
- Louisiana State University and A & M College
- Danielle Wright
- Davidson College
- Paul Yarabe
- Harvard University
- Martha Adriana Zepeda Rivera
- University of Washington
Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area Initiatives
- Audubon Naturalist Society
- Chevy Chase, Maryland
- Grant: Greenkids Environmental Education Lessons
- $50,000
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation
- Annapolis, Maryland
- Grant: Maryland Environmental Education Program
- $150,000
- Eleanor Roosevelt High School
- Greenbelt, Maryland
- Grant: Science and Technology Program
- $40,000
- Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation
- Rockville, Maryland
- Grant: Elementary Science Leadership Program, Student and Teacher Internship Program, Student Academies of Science, Teacher Professional Development
- $545,000
Loudoun County, Virginia, Initiatives
- Loudoun County Public Schools
- Leesburg, Virginia
- Grant: Teacher Professional Development Institute, Academy of Science, Student Research, Curriculum Development and College Scholarships
- $1,000,000
College Scholarships ($7,000 for each student)
- Vanya Aggarwal
- Loudoun County High School
- Soonhong Choi
- Briar Woods High School
- Rahul Ankush Gogia
- Briar Woods High School
- Jana Nicole Hertzog
- Dominion High School
- Vaishnavi Lanka
- Broad Run High School
- Amy Eun-Young Agnes Lee
- Loudoun County High School
- Nicholas Louis Montgomery
- Freedom High School
- Christopher William Peters
- Heritage High School
- Hayley Lynn Potts
- Loudoun Valley High School
- Babak Pourkazami
- Stone Bridge High School
- Lindsey Purcell
- Broad Run High School
- Jawan Qadir
- Heritage High School
- Anson Noah Rosenthal
- Park View High School
- Melissa Ann Saunders
- Potomac Falls High School
- Bridget Francine Shayka
- Loudoun Valley High School
- Patrick Joseph Steiner
- Park View High School
- Rain Elia Thomas
- Dominion High School
- Truc Ngân Thi Tran
- Freedom High School
- Benjamin Thomas Tutko
- Stone Bridge High School
- Natalie Lauren Wahl
- Potomac Falls High School
HHMI Investigator Education Grants
- Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D.
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- Grant: Colorado Learning Assistant Model
- $100,000
- Douglas A. Melton, Ph.D.
- Harvard University
- Grant: Harvard Stem Cell Institute Summer Undergraduate Internship Program
- $50,000
- Ronald D. Vale, Ph.D.
- University of California, San Francisco
- Grant: Work on iBioseminars
- $150,000
Other Precollege and Undergraduate Science Education Awards
- 4th Annual Conference on Understanding Interventions that Broaden Participation in Research Careers
- $50, 000
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Grant: Science Education Forum
- $40,000
- American Society for Cell Biology
- Grant: iBioseminars
- $17,000
- Grant: Support for Life Science Education journal
- $300,000 (Three-year grant, payments begin in FY 2012)
- Grinnell College
- Grinnell, Iowa
- Grant: Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences and Classroom Undergraduate Research Experiences
- $380,000 (Four-year grant, payments begin in FY 2012)
- Grinnell College, David Lopatto
- Grant: Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences and Classroom Undergraduate Research
- $15,000
- NEXUS - National EXperiment in Undergraduate Science Education
- (Four-year grants)
- Purdue University
- West Lafayette, Indiana
- $400,000
- University of Maryland-Baltimore County
- Baltimore, Maryland
- $400,000
- University of Maryland-College Park
- College Park, Maryland
- $400,000
- University of Miami
- Coral Gables, Florida
- $400,000
- Yale University
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Grant: Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology
- $3,010,000 (Five-year grant)
Public Science Initiatives
- Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA)
- Arlington, Virginia
- Grant: Science reporting on the PBS NewsHour
- $250,000 (Two-year grant)
- New York University
- New York, New York
- Grant: Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program
- $30,000
HHMI Awards
- Loudoun Habitat for Humanity
- Leesburg, Virginia
- $20,000
- United Way of Loudoun County
- Leesburg, Virginia
- $20,000
- United Way of the National Capital Area
- Washington, D.C.
- $25,000
- Virginia-based Community Organizations
- $9,596
