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Graduate School announces spring 2024 Common App award winners

October 08, 2024 By: Elizabeth Murphy/MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

group of students sitting together on stairs
group of students sitting together on stairs

Congratulations, spring 2024 Common App award winners! 

See photos of all award winners in our video.

American Legion Auxiliary Fellowship in Cancer Research

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

Emily Caggiano – Cancer Biology Program; Advisor: Emil Schueler, PhD

Daisy Diaz-Rohena – Cancer Biology Program; Advisor: Deepa Sampath, PhD

Chase Hutchins – Molecular and Translational Biology Program; Advisor: Alemayehu Gorfe, PhD

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

Yuejiang Liu – Cancer Biology Program; Advisor: Humam Kadara, PhD

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

Fabiola Ester Lujan – Molecular and Translational Biology Program; Advisors: Daniel Frigo, PhD and Loukia Karacosta, PhD

Andres Lopez-Rivas – Immunology Program; Advisor: Candelaria Gomez-Manzano, MD

Mekenzie Peshoff – Neuroscience Program; Advisors: Long-Jun Wu, PhD and Louise McCullough, MD, PhD

Larry Deavan, PhD Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences

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

John and Rebekah Harper Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences

Wendao Liu – Quantitative Sciences Program; Advisor: Zhongming Zhao, PhD

Russell and Diana Hawkins Family Foundation Discovery Scholarship

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

Rosalie B. Hite Fellowship

Hao-Nien Chen – Immunology Program; Advisor: Dihua Yu, MD

Xinru Chen – Medical Physics Program; Advisor: Jingzhong Yang, PhD

Andrew Gillard – Cancer Biology Program; Advisor: Candelaria Gomez-Manzano, MD

Servando Hernandez Vargas – Therapeutics and Pharmacology Program; Advisor: Ali Azhdarinia, PhD

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

Marilyn and Frederick R. Lummis, Jr., MD Fellowship

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

Schissler Foundation Fellowship

Yiming Cai – Cancer Biology Program; Advisor: Haoqiang Ying, MD, PhD

Richa Nayak – Genetics and Epigenetics Program; Advisor: Yejing Ge 

Linda M. Wells GSBS Outreach Award 

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

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