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Recent Awards and Fellowships

Predoctoral Fellowships for Minority Students
Bridges to the Future Awards
MBRS RISE Award
MBRS SCORE Award
MARC U*STAR Award
MARC Faculty Fellowships
Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards

PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR MINORITY STUDENTS
(listed by fellow and graduate institution)

Victor D. Acevedo
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Lourdes M. Aleman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Elsa V. Arocho Quinones
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Agedi N. Boto
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Wendy Brisbon
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN

Cheryl E. Broderick
Indiana University, Bloomington

Leslie L. Chavez
University of California, San Diego

Marielena Chavira
University of California, Los Angeles

Timothy H. Click
University of Oklahoma, Norman

Holly N. Cukier
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Hugh M. Fentress
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Eugena Griffin
University of South Carolina, Columbia

Carlos A. Guerrero
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

Gerod S. Hall
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Shardell M. Hawkins
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Jason T. Heale
University of California, Irvine

Nick C. Herrera
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA

Cimona V. Hinton
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN

Andre O. Hudson
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick

Aminah D. Ikner
University of California, Davis

Landon J. Inge
University of California, Los Angeles

Candace A. Jones
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN

Kristen N. Koch
University of California, Los Angeles

Catherine I. Lacayo
Stanford University, CA

Ronald P. Leon
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver

Edward P. Leverich
University of California, Los Angeles

Ana L. Luis
University of Texas at Austin

Aron R. Marquitz
Duke University, Durham, NC

Damali N. Martin
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore

Santosha N. Odoms
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington

Sara J. Oppenheim
North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Pedro A. Ortiz
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway

Brian D. Patterson
University of California, Irvine

Elena M. Perrineau
University of North Carolina at Wilmington

cott D. Philibin
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond

Gabriel Pineda
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Jason M. Rauceo
City University of New York, Hunter College

Antonio Romero
University of California, Irvine

Mickea D. Rose
Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Ro Shauna S. Rothwell
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Edgardo L. Sanabria-Valentin
New York University School of Medicine, New York City

Michael Santiago-Cintron
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Daniel R. Santillano
Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station

Alvin L. Smith II
Howard University, Washington, DC

Bharti T. Solanki
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Teresa M. Tibbets
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Alejandro J. Toro
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway

Victor J. Torres
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Jimena Varon
University of California, Los Angeles

Thomas E. Vasquez
University of California, Irvine

Stephen P. Voght
University of Washington, Seattle

Shanta M. Whitaker
Yale University, New Haven, CT

Kirk Y. Williams
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE AWARDS
(listed by institution and principal investigator)

Bridges to the Baccalaureate

Kansas State University, Manhattan
Denis M. Medeiros

Prairie View A&M University, Texas
E. Gloria Regisford

Bridges to the Doctorate

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Robert C. MacDonald

Texas A&M University-Kingsville
A. Bhattacharya

MBRS RISE AWARD
(listed by institution and principal investigator)

Huntsville, AL
Anthony D. Paul

MBRS SCORE AWARD
(listed by institution and principal investigator)

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA
Theodore C. Friedman

Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC
Nsoki Phambu

University of Texas at Brownsville
Luis V. Colom

MARC U*STAR AWARD
(listed by institution and principal investigator)

Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Julia Page Lindsey

MARC FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS
(listed by institution and principal investigator)

University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan
Nitza L. Diaz-Blanco

Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico
Zaira Mateo-Mayol

INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARDS
(listed by institution and principal investigator)

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Luis A. Amaral

San Francisco State University, CA
Joseph M. Romeo