RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – The Burroughs Wellcome Fund Board of Directors is pleased to announce the 2022 Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program Fellows. PDEP provides a total of $60,000 over three years to support the career development activities for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows in degree-granting institutions in the U.S. or Canada whose training and professional development are guided by mentors committed to helping them advance to stellar careers in biomedical or medical research.
This year 25 PDEP Fellows were named, marking the highest number of awards made since the grant program’s inception in 2013. Previous awards have generally ranged between 11 to 15 selections.
“BWF is pleased to announce 25 selections for the 2022 grant cycle and look forward to welcoming the new awardees to our network,” said Alfred Mays, director and chief strategist for diversity and education. “We look forward to supporting their pursuit of independent research faculty positions.”
The 2022 Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program Fellows are:
Hector Arciniega Jr., PhD
Harvard Medical School
Identifying in vivo neuroimaging biomarkers of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Danielle Françoise Atibalentja, MD, PhD
Stanford University
Mechanisms of Regulation of B-cell immune responses by Oncogenic MYC
Heather Kennedy Beasley, PhD
Vanderbilt University
TMEM135 is a Novel Regulator of Age-associated Heart Decline
Maigen Michelle Bethea, PhD
University of Colorado
The Role of OxtR Vagal Afferents in the Success of Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy
Lawrence Brandon Brown, MD
Johns Hopkins University
The effect of structural racism on racial and geographic disparities in deceased organ donation
Jasmin Camacho, PhD
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
The sweet adaptations to sugar: extreme physiological evolution to liquid sugar diets in nectar bats and hummingbirds
Kate Elizabeth Cavanaugh, PhD
University of California-San Francisco
Advancing the Mouse Developmental Clock to Assess Embryonic Checkpoint Progression
Rose Berthe Creed, PhD
University of California-San Francisco
Basal Ganglia and Eye Movement Circuits in Motor control
Lọla Fagbami, PhD
University of Georgia
Sweet Danger: Sugar Modified Proteins in Malaria Parasites
Aileen I Fernandez, PhD
Yale University
Employing spatially-conserved gene expression for improve selection of patients for immunotherapies
Diego Rivera Gelsinger, PhD
Columbia University
Versatile Technology for Universal Engineering of Microbial Isolates and Communities
Stephanie Ann Herrlinger, PhD
Columbia University
A multi-systems approach to uncover aberrant mechanisms contributing to circuit dysfunction in Schizophrenia
Malina Jan Ivey, PhD
University of Cincinnati
Investigating the long-term consequence of fibroblast activation on cardiac physiology
Chinyere Agbaegbu Iweka, PhD
Stanford University
Effects of circadian disruption on immunometabolism and stroke severity
Zachary Bleiker Jones, PhD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Locus coeruleus norepinephrine signaling in alcohol seeking and binge-like drinking
Demetrice Jordan, PhD
Harvard Medical School
A Spatial Risk Assessment of COVID-19 Infections and Seroprevalence in Ifanadiana District Madagascar with Implications on Early Warning Systems of Surveillance
Jasmine Kwasa, PhD
Carnegie Mellon University
Developing Novel Neural Technologies to Investigate Top-Down Attention in Neurologically and Racially Heterogeneous Populations
Lakeisha Lewter, PhD
University of Texas-Dallas
The contribution of the left and right amygdala on the development of chronic bladder pain
Christopher Bernardo Medina, PhD
Emory University
Defining the unique classes of inhibitory receptor molecules during CD8 T cell exhaustion
Anny Reyes, PhD
University of California – San Diego
Social Determinants of Health in Older Adults with Epilepsy: Identifying the impact of SDH on epilepsy, cognitive, and brain outcomes
Cristina Caridad Santarossa, PhD
New York University School of Medicine
Structure and Function of LetAB: A tunnel-based lipid transporter in E. coli
Dominique Curtis Stephens, PhD
Vanderbilt University in partnership w/ Fisk University*
DUSP11 Modulates Intracellular and Neighboring Cells Immunogenicity and Inflammation Sensitivity
Cynthia Tchio, PhD
Morehouse School of Medicine
The Implication of the Orphan GPR61 in Sleep and Cardiometabolism
Andre Bevil Toussaint, PhD
Columbia University
Genes, molecules, and mechanisms associated with heightened pain sensitivity and opioid abuse vulnerability
Adelaide Tovar, PhD
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Dissecting context-specific gene regulatory grammars
*Updated: 20 September 2022
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