Recent Student Fellowships

Einstein Ph.D. and MD-PhD students have a long history of successfully applying for and receiving NIH Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (e.g., F30, F31). Below are recent students who have received an Individual Predoctoral Fellowship award.

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2023

MELISSA CASTIGLIONE

Project Title: Defining Activities of KDMS Essential to Development and Viability

Funding: F31 (NIGMS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Julie Secombe
Department of Genetics

YESSENIA CEDENO

Project Title: Role of Nicotinamide Nucleotide Adenylyltransferase-1 (NMNAT1) in Chromatin Remodeling and Gene Regulation

Funding: F31 (NIGMS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Robert Coleman
Department of Cell Biology

ERIK GUILLEN

Project Title: Impact of T cell receptor signaling on memory CD8+ T cell stemness

Funding: F31 (NIAID)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. Gregoire Lauvau
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

ILANA KARP

Project Title: Regulation of Splicing During Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Formation

Funding: F31 (NHLBI)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Teresa Bowman
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology

JESSIE LARIOS-VALENCIA

Project Title: The Role of Dedifferentiation in Basal like Breast Cancer

Funding: F31 (NCI)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. Wenjun Guo
Department of Cell Biology

RIANA LO BU

Project Title: Dissecting GWAS Identified Risk Variants in Parkinson's Disease – Functional Role of GPNMB in the Pathogenesis of PD

Funding: F31 (NINDS)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. Frank Soldner
Department of Neuroscience

ANASTASIA NIZHNIK

Project Title: Dissection of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Differentiation during Embryogenesis

Funding: F31 (NHLBI)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Teresa Bowman
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology

TRAM NGOC BAO NGUYEN

Project Title: Reward Function in Adolescents with Depression and Cannabis Use

Funding: F30 (NIDA)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. Vilma Gabbay
Clinical Investigation Track

ANDREA RAMIREZ

Project Title: The Role of Mammalian Diaphanous Formin 1 in Leading Edge Cell Protrusion

Funding: F31 (NIGMS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Luis Hodgson
Department of Molecular Pharmacology

ERIC SOSA

Project Title: Defining the gene regulatory roles of non-coding variants in the pathogenesis of autism

Funding: F31 (NIMH)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. John Greally
Department of Genetics

MATANEL YHESKEL

Project Title: Epigenetic and transcriptional consequences of Intellectual Disability-associated mutations in the histone lysine demethylase KDM5

Funding: F31 (NIGMS)
MSTP Student
Laboratory of Dr. Julie Secombe
Department of Genetics

2022

IAN MACARTHUR

Project Title: Epigenetic regulation of neural stem cell biology by Tet DNA dioxygenases

Funding: F30 (NICHD)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Meelad Dawlaty
Department of Genetics
 

2021

LETI NUNEZ

Project Title: Determining the effect of RNA binding protein phosphorylation on mRNA fate

Funding: F31 (NINDS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Robert Singer
Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology
 

JACOB RATLIFF

Project Title: The role of long-range inhibitory neurons in cortical circuits

Funding: F31 (NINDS)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Renata Batista Brito
Department of Neuroscience
 

HENRIETTA BAINS

Project Title: How does mTOR sense lipid in vivo

Funding: F31 (NIA)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Rajat Singh
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
 

CZARINA RAMOS

Project Title: Activity Dependent Changes in the Contextual Memory Engram

Funding: F31 (NIMH)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Pablo Castillo
Department of Neuroscience
 

CHRISTOPHER NISHIMURA

Project Title: Mechanistic Dissection and Therapeutic Targeting of B7x in Cancer

Funding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Xingxing Zang
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
 

RYAN GRAFF

Project Title: Platelet PI3Kbeta regulation of metastasis

Funding: F30 (NCI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Jonathan Backer
Department of Molecular Pharmacology
 

JOHN BARBARO

Project Title: Methamphetamine and Antiretroviral Therapy Impact Macrophage Functions and Macroautophagy: Implications for HIV Neuropathogenesis

Funding: F30 (NIDA)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Joan Berman
Department of Pathology
 

KEANU SHADRON

Project Title: The Effect of Encoding Cue Reliability on the Function and Development of the Barn Owl Auditory System

Funding: F31
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Jose Pena
Department of Neuroscience
 

ANDREA BAE

Project Title: Role of brain oscillations in midbrain and forebrain networks supporting stimulus selection in the sound localization pathway of barn owls

Funding: F30 (NIDCD)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Jose Pena
Department of Neuroscience
 

KELLY CLEMENZA

Project Title: AChemogenetic Strategy for Selective Inhibition of Exogenous Opiod-Induced Reward Signaling

Funding: F31 (NIDA)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Lucas Sjulson
Department of Neuroscience
 

JULIO FLORES

Project Title: Epigenetic regulation of stem cells and development by the DNA dioxygenase Tet2

Funding: F31 (NIGMS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Meelad Dawlaty
Department of Genetics
 

2020

CLAIRE WARD

Project Title: DEVELOPMENTAL DYSFUNCTION OF PARVALBUMIN INTERNEURONS IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

Funding: F31 (NICHD)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Renata Batista Brito
Department of Neuroscience
 

TAYLOR THOMPSON

Project Title: TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY AND CELL DIFFERENTIATION INFLUENCES OF AN ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICAL

Funding: F31 (NIEHS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. John Greally
Department of Genetics
 

BIANCA ULLOA

Project Title: DECIPHERING THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM AND PROGENITOR CELL SELF-RENEWAL AND DIFFERENTIATION

Funding: F31 (NHLBI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Teresa Bowman
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
 

DANIEL BORGER

Project Title: DEVELOPING A NOVEL EX VIVO PLATFORM TO SUPPORT HEMATOPOIETIC CELLS AND CHARACTERIZE THE STEM CELL NICHE

Funding: F30 (NHLBI)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Paul Frenette
Department of Cell Biology

VICTORIA SEDWICK

Project Title: THE ROLE OF THE AMYGDALOHIPPOCAMPAL AREA IN INFANT-DIRECTED AGGRESSION

Funding: F31 (NICHD)
PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Anita Autry
Department of Neuroscience

2019

MICHELLE GULFO

Project Title: ASSESSING DOPAMINERGIC MODULATION OF AN ASSOCIATIVE CIRCUIT WITHIN THE DENTATE GYRUS

Funding: F31 (NIMH)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Pablo Castillo
Department of Neuroscience

MEERA TRIVEDI

Project Title: CHARACTERIZING NOVEL REGULATIONS OF DENDRITIC TILING IN C. ELEGANS

Funding: F31 (NINDS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Hannes Buelow
Department of Neuroscience

2018

HAYDEN HATCH

Project Title: TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION, NEURONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND FUNCTION OF THE MUSHROOM BODY IN A DROSOPHILA MODEL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

Funding: F31 (NINDS)
MD-PhD Student
Laboratory of Dr. Julie Secombe
Department of Genetics