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Graduate School names 2024 Kopchick Fellows

January 24, 2024 By: Tracey Barnett/MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School

Graduate School names 2024 Kopchick Fellows

Graduate School names 2024 Kopchick Fellows

The Graduate School is proud to announce the 2024 recipients of the Dr. John J. and Charlene Kopchick Fellowships. These fellowships are funded through a generous $10.5 million endowment established by alumnus John J. Kopchick, PhD '80, and his wife, Charlene.

 

2024 Dr. John J. Kopchick Fellowship

First-Year Fellows:

Hana Baroudi - Medical Physics Program; Advisor:  Laurence Court, PhD

Stephen Farmer - Molecular & Translational Biology Program; Advisor: Sheng Zhang, PhD

Chrystine Gallegos - Neuroscience Program; Advisor: Carmen Dessauer, PhD

Skylar Gay - Medical Physics Program; Advisor: Laurence Court, PhD

Pengju Gong - Cancer Biology Program; Advisor: Chunru Lin, PhD

Mo-Fan Huang - Genetics and Epigenetics Program; Dung-Fang Lee, PhD

Kaylene Lu - Cancer Biology Program; Advisor: Jian Hu, PhD

Kevin Liu - Medical Physics Program; Advisor: Emil Schueler, PhD

Bridgitte Palacios - Neuroscience Program; Advisor: Jian Hu, PhD

Amanda Warner - Cancer Biology Program; Advisor: Don Gibbons, MD, PhD

 

Second-Year Fellows:

Cuauhtemoc Ulises Gonzalez - Molecular & Translational Biology Program; Advisor: Vasanthi Jayaraman, PhD

Takese McKenzie - Neuroscience Program; Advisor: Jian Hu, PhD

Eyad Shihabeddin - Neuroscience Program; Advisor: Jiaqian Wu, PhD

 

2024 Charlene Kopchick Fellowship

Mekenzie Peshoff - Neuroscience Program; Advisor: Louise McCullough, MD, PhD

The Dr. John J. Kopchick Fellowships are awarded to students who demonstrate exceptional character, extracurricular leadership, research excellence and scholarly merit. Each fellowship provides $7,500 directly to the student and an additional $7,500 to support their research and training. These fellowships may be renewed for a total award period of up to two years.

The Charlene Kopchick Fellowship is awarded to a GSBS student who demonstrates unique characteristics beyond merit and financial need. Such characteristics may include but are not limited to first-generation college graduates entering graduate research; students who exhibit exemplary personal character; uniqueness of background and culture; strong work ethic; perceived leadership qualities and an enthusiastic scientific curiosity. These fellowships provide $8,250 of direct aid to the student and an additional $8,250 to support the student’s research and training. This is a one-time award to the student and is not renewable.

Fellowships are awarded each year, and fellows work with the school to host the biennial Kopchick Symposium.

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