Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award
The Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recognizes outstanding achievement during graduate studies in the biological sciences.
Fred Hutch established this annual award to honor the bold, creative, pioneering spirit embodied by Hal Weintraub. Weintraub also earned deep respect and admiration as a caring mentor and supportive colleague.
Nominations are accepted annually between October 1 and December 15.
Nomination for 2021 is currently closed, see you next October.
Weintraub Graduate Student Award
Awardees will participate in a scientific symposium honoring Weintraub and his commitment to innovative science. The award symposium will take place May 7, 2021, at Fred Hutch's Robert W. Day Campus. The symposium will consist of scientific presentations by the graduate student awardees and informal gatherings of students and faculty.
A committee consisting of Fred Hutch faculty and students will select up to twelve awardees from the nominations on the basis of quality, originality, and scientific significance, as well as to represent a diverse range of research topics. Expenses will be covered by the Weintraub/Groudine Fellowship for Science and Human Disease, established to foster intellectual exchange through the promotion of programs for graduate students, fellows and visiting scholars.
* Due to the COVID19 pandemic, 2021 Weintraub Awardees will be chosen, but there will not be an accompanying Symposium in May 2021.
Submit your Nomination
Only one nomination may be submitted per department or program.
Since the awardees will present their thesis work at the Weintraub Symposium, we envision them as advanced students near the completion of their studies. Ideally, students should not have completed their thesis before September 2020. However, due to differences in research topics and programs, the most qualified students may have already completed their thesis.
Nominations should be submitted by the Chair/Head of the Department/Program or their designee.
Information needed before submission for all applicants:
- Nominator name, address, email, and telephone number
- Mentor name, address, email, and telephone number
- Student nominee name, address, email, and telephone number
Information needed from student's mentor:
- Letter of recommendation, formatted as a PDF file
(Please use single spacing, Arial font or similar, and 11pt minimum font size.)
Information needed from student:
- Student Curriculum Vitae, using template provided (saved as a PDF): Text | MS Word | RTF
- Summary of thesis research, using template provided (saved as a PDF): Text | MS Word | RTF
The Selection Committee will notify all nominees about their status by February 28, 2021.
Please address questions regarding this award or the symposium to Susan Parkhurst.
Deadline for 2021 nominations is Dec 15, 2020.
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Current Weintraub Award Winners
Amin Aalipour, Stanford University
Januka Athukoralage, University of St Andrews
Lindsay Cameron, UC Davis
Grace Johnson, MIT
Lyle Kingsbury, UCLA
Malinda McPherson, Harvard University
Dasha Nelidova, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
Shayan Shamipour, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Eric Song, Yale University
Katherine Susa, Harvard University
Mengni Wang, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Emma Wrenn, Fred Hutch
Lynn Yap, Harvard University
Past Four Years of Weintraub Award Winners
2020 Recipients
Adrian Baez-Ortega, Univ. of Cambridge .Lou Beaulieu-Laroche, MIT . Andrew Butler, New York Univ. .Victoria Deneke, Duke .James Eaglesham, Harvard .Nandan Gokhale, Duke .Rose Hill, UC, Berkeley wRebecca Moore, Princeton .Paul Muller, Rockefeller .Anete Romanauska, Med Univ. Vienna .Akanksha Thawani, Princeton .Christopher Zimmerman, UCSF
2019 Recipients
William Allen, Stanford University . Adair Borges, University of California, San Francisco . Ava Carter, Stanford School of Medicine . Yiming Chen, University of California, San Francisco . Adam Dingens, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center . Kiara Eldred, Johns Hopkins University . Courtney Ellison, Indiana University . Bramwell Lambrus, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine . Daniel Montoro, Harvard Medical School . Sofia Quinodoz, California Institute of Technology . Alexandra Walls, University of Washington . Greg Wyant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Stephen Zhang, Harvard Medical School
2018 Recipients
Nicholas Bodnar, Harvard Medical School • James Byers, Stanford University • Lillian Cohn, The Rockefeller University • Eric Dang, University of California, San Francisco • Fahim Farzadfard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Danielle Grotjahn, Scripps Research Institute • Kamena Kostova, University of California, San Francisco • Adam Larson, University of California, San Francisco • Jackson Liang, Stanford University • Claudio Morales-Pérez, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center • Annika Nichols, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna • Niladri Sinha, University of Utah • Katherine Xue, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2017 Recipients
Thomas Bartlett, Princeton University • Lynne Chantranupong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Raphael Cohn, The Rockefeller University • Kelsie Eichel, University of California, San Francisco • Qing Feng, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Cent • Isha Jain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Daniel Lin, California Institute of Technology • Lucy Liu, Baylor College of Medicine • Siew Cheng Phua, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine • Dheeraj Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Sukrit Silas, Stanford University • Christoph Thaiss, Weizmann Institute • Candice Yip, Harvard Medical School
For a list of previous awardees 2001-2016