Past Awardees

ASMB is proud to recognize the outstanding contributions of our members at the biennial meetings. Below you will find our previous year's awardees.

2021 Awardees:

Senior Investigator, William Parks, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Junior Investigator, Ashley Brown, North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Iozzo Award, Jessica Wagenseil, Washington University in St. Louis
Founders Award, Heena Kumra, McGill University
ISMB Distinguished Investigator, Robert Mecham, Washington University School of Medicine
Iozzo Trainee Awardees: Sarah Lipp, Purdue University (Student) and Nandaraj Taye, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai at New York (Post-Doc) 

ASMB Travel Awards
Grace Bingham, University of Virginia
Steve Bronson, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Selene Colon, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Athenia Jones, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Fred Lee, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Dawiyat Massoudi, University of California, San Francisco
Anne Nichols, University of Rochester Medical Center
Nandaraj Taye, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai at New York		 HCS Sponsored Travel Awards
Kimberly Denman, Ohio State University
Hashmi Fiza, Upstate Medical University
Milos Marinkovic, University of Texas Health San Antonio
Timothy Mead, Cleveland Clinic
Mandy Schofield, University of Delaware
Eye Focused Research Travel Awards
Emily Hwang, University of Utah
Colleen McDowell, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Thomas Manzoni, University of Delaware		 Marfan Foundation

Keiichi Asano, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

 

On-site Travel Award Winners

Arin Oestreich, Washington University School of Medicine

Tejeshwar Rao, University of Alabama Birmingham

Vivian Lee-Kim, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Kohei Omachi, Washington University School of Medicine

Antonion Korcari, University of Rochester

 Alport Syndrome Foundation
Aubrie Stricker, Vanderbilt University

 

2020 Awardees:

Iozzo Trainee Awards:

Student Category: Claire Gianakas, Duke University; Samantha Schwager, Vanderbilt University

Post Doc Category: Yael Efraim, University of California San Francisco, and Aastha Kapoor, Thomas Jefferson University

 

2018 Awardees:

Senior Investigator: Jean Schwartzbauer, Princeton University
Junior Investigator: Alexandra Naba, University of Illinois at Chicago
Iozzo Award: Rachel Lennon, University of Manchester
Founders Award: Vincent Fiore, The Rockefeller University
ISMB Distinguished Investigator: Billy Hudson, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

ASMB Travel

Dwight Chambers, Georgia Institute of Technology
Danielle Kamato, University of Queensland
Shyam Kumar Bandari, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Anna Kornmuller, The University of Western Ontario
Jared Saunders, Princeton University

 ISMB International Travel Awards
Rocco Bernasconi, Uniklinik Freiburg
Joan Chang, University of Manchester
Wing Ying Chow, Leibniz Forschungsinstitut for Molecular Pharmacology
ASMB Underrepresented Minority Travel
Melisa DeGroot, Cornell University
Maria Eugenia Vega,  Princeton University
Selene Colon, Vanderbilt University Medical Center		 Histochemical Society Travel Awards
Sumeda Nandadasa, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
Blain Jones, Ohio State University
Elee Shimshoni, Weizmann Institute of Science
Pascal Morrissette Martin, University of Western Ontario
Yue Leng, Purdue University
Alport Syndrome Foundation Travel Awards
Pinyuan Tian, University of Manchester
Michael Yu, University of Utah		  

 

 

2016 Awardees:

Iozzo Award: Thomas Barker, University of Virginia
Senior Investigator: Renato Iozzo, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Junior Investigator: Vincent Tagliabracci,University of Texas, Southwestern, Medical Center
ISMB Distinguished Investigator: Karl Tryggvason, Karolinska Institute/Duke University-National University of Singapore


ASMB Travel
Timothy Mead, Cleveland Clinic
Vivian Lee, Washington University School of Medicine
Ryan Hill, University of Colorado, Denver
Greg Harris, Princeton University
Charlotte Gistelinck, Ghent University

ASMB Minority Travel
Steven Shen, University of British Columbia
M. Eugenia Vega, Princeton University
Ritesh Kumar, Texas A&M University

ISMB International Travel Awards
Francisco Javier Rodriguez-Baena (Spain) Gen Yo
Sanne D’hondt (Belgium) Ghent University
Heena Kumra (Canada) McGill University
Nan Yang (UK) University of Manchester
David Pulido-Gomez (UK) Imperial College London

2014 Awardees:

Iozzo Award: Adam Engler, University of California, San Diego, California
Senior Investigator: Vince Hascall, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Junior Investigator: Sean E. Gill, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
ISMB Distinguished Investigator: Leena Bruckner-Tuderman, University Frieburg, Germany

 

ASMB Travel and Poster
Carolyn Dancevic, Deakin University
Andrew DiChiara, MIT
Vincent Fiore,  Georgia Institute of Technology
Carmen Halabi, Washington University School of Medicine 
Alison Muir, University of Wisconsin Madison
Nadine Nagy, Benaroya Research Institute 
Thomas Neill, Thomas Jefferson University
Alexandra Pastino, Princeton University
Chi-Ting Su, University of Pittsburgh
Yukimasa Taniguchi, Institute for Protein Research

ASMB Minority Travel
Kristina Aguilera, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Michael Duncan, Georgia Regents University 
Justin Parreno, University of Toronto

EDNF Awards
Sanne D'hondt, Ghent University
Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Shriner's Hospital for Children
Gili Naveh, HarvardUniversity
Arick Park, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Mei Sun, University of South Florida

ISMB International Travel Awards
Rushita Bagch, University of Manitoba 
Ryoko Sato-Nishiuchi, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University
Tim Van Damme, Ghent University Hospital

2012 Awardees:

Senior Investigator Award: Billy Hudson, Vanderbilt University
Junior Investigator Award: Thomas Barker, Georgia Institute of Technology

Poster and Travel Award Winners:

Lisa Ang, University of British Columbia
Vivek Desai, Princeton University
Alon Hendel, University of British Columbia
Marion Jeanne, University of California, San Francisco
Sandeep Khatri, University of Pittsburgh
Rooz Khosravi, Boston University
Ryan Petrie, National Institutes of Health
Purva Singh, Princeton University
Yoshito Yamishiro, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Kurt Zimmerman, University of Alabama at Birmingham

2010 Awardees:

Senior Investigator Award

Benoit de Crombrugghe, MD Anderson Cancer Center
   
Junior Investigator Award

Pyong Woo Park, Children's Hospital at Harvard, MA

Selected Talk and Poster Awardees:

Inkyung Kang, Benaroya Research  Institute, WA
Sergi Boudko, Shriners Research Center, OR
Wendy Boivin, University of British Columbia, Canada
David Hudson, University of Washington, WA
Lizhi Cao, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
William Daley, University at Albany, NY
Juliane Huegel, Thomas Jefferson University, PA
Fabien LeCaille, INSERM, France
Thomas Neill, Thomas Jefferson University, PA
Alexandra Naba, MIT, MA

 

2008 Awardees:

Senior Investigator Award

Robert Mecham, Washington University in St. Louis
   
Junior Investigator Award

Hiromi Yanagisawa, University of Texas Southwestern
   
One Time Founder's Award

Paul Bornstein, University of Washington (retired)

2008 Poster Awardees:

  •  Hye Jyn Chung, Thomas Jefferson University
  •  B. Frank Eames, University of Oregon
  • Alayna Loiselle, University of Rochester
  •  Marion Cooley, MUSC
  •  Qinglang Li, University of Washington
  •  Ivan Rebustiri, NIDCR-NIH
  •  Larry Luchsinger, Boston University
  •  Siddarth Vora, Boston University
  •  Lauren Van Duyn, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  •  Amy Pyle, Vanderbilt University

2006 Awardees:

Senior Investigator Award

Bjorn Olsen, Harvard University
   
Junior Investigator Award

David Calderwood, Yale University

2006 Poster Awardees:

  •  Shanna Arnold, University of Texas Southwestern
  •  Tamara Pozos, University of Washington
  •  Simone Barbero, UCSD
  •  Katy Rodgers, University of Pennsylvania
  •  Robert Hinton, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
  •  Valerie Schneider, University of Pennsylvania
  •  Vera Hintze, Thomas Jefferson University
  •  Adrian Shifren, Washington University
  •  Thomas Lozito, National Institutes of Health
  •  Millicent Sullivan, University of Delaware
  •  Audrey McAlinden, Washington University
  •  Elizabeth Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania
  •  Tom Merritt, University of Texas – Houston
  •  Alencia Woodard-Grice, UAB

2004 Awardees:  (Note: Poster Awards were not issued in 2004)

Senior Investigator Award

Ken Yamada, NIDCR, NIH
   
Junior Investigator Award

Dwayne Stupack, Scripps Institute

 

2002 Poster Awardees:  (Note: Senior and Junior Investigator Awards were not issued in 2002)

  •  Justin Annes, New York University
  •  Leyla Valenick Williams, Princeton University
  •  Brandon Burback, University of Wisconsin
  •  Wenlin Yuan, Washington University
  •  Robert Johnson, Northwestern University