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.
Nominations for the 2025 awards has closed.
Please check back in October 2025 for open nominations for the 2026 awards.
Weintraub Graduate Student Award
A committee consisting of Fred Hutch faculty and students will select up to ten awardees from the nominations on the basis of quality, originality, and scientific significance, as well as to represent a diverse range of research topics. Honoraria for the selected awardees is covered by the Weintraub/Groudine Fellowship for Science and Human Disease, established to foster intellectual exchange through the promotion of programs for graduate students and the Weintraub Symposium.
Due to ongoing uncertainties in scientific funding, policy, and communication, we will not be holding an in-person scientific symposium this year. Once the situation stabilizes, we will resume this tradition and invite future awardees to participate in a spring symposium at Fred Hutch, honoring Hal Weintraub’s legacy and commitment to innovative science. While we regret the cancellation, we remain committed to recognizing and celebrating the achievements of the awardees.
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 2024. However, due to differences in research topics and programs, the most qualified students may have already completed their thesis.
Nominations should be submitted by Department Chairs or their designee. If you have questions, please contact weintraub@fredhutch.org.
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, telephone number, and gender
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): MS Word
- Summary of thesis research, using template provided (saved as a PDF): MS Word
The Selection Committee will notify all nominees about their status by February 28, 2025.
Please address questions regarding this award or the symposium to weintraub@fredhutch.org.
Deadline for 2025 nominations was December 13, 2024.
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Current Weintraub Award Winners
Brendan Ito, Cornell University • Connor McKenney, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine • Dawn Chen, Harvard University • Edwin N. Neumann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Leila Elabbady, University of Washington • Pilar Baldominos Flores, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia • Roman Barth, Delft University of Technology • Tong Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Jeremy Hollis, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center • Wenbin Mei, Rockefeller University
Past Four Years of Weintraub Award Winners
2024 Recipients
Tatsat Banerjee, Johns Hopkins University • Daniel Cardozo Pinto, Stanford University • Peiwei Chen, California Institute of Technology • Olivia Harringmeyer, Harvard University • Erin Huiting, University of California, San Francisco • Emily Kibby, University of Colorado, Boulder • Michelle Li, Harvard University • Bingxu Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Sofia Lövestam, University of Cambridge • Roeltje Maas, University of Lausanne • Shamik Mascharak, Stanford University • Karl Palmquist, The Rockefeller University
2023 Recipients
Maria Ahmed, University of Michigan • Saket Bagde, Cornell University • Francisco Galdos, Stanford University • King Hung, Stanford University • Kathleen Morrill, U Mass Chan Med School • Lila Neahring, UCSF • Megan Okada, University of Utah • Aditya Raguram, Harvard University • Rafael Rivera-Lugo, UC Berkeley • Alexandra Schnell, Harvard University • Rachael Workman Sparklin, Johns Hopkins SOM • Roger Zou, Johns Hopkins University
2022 Recipients
Paige Arnold, Memorial Sloan Kettering • Amira Barkal, Stanford University School of Medicine • Sarah Crist-Valente, Fred Hutch • Brianna Duncan-Lowey, Harvard University • Chenyi Fei, Princeton University • Sanne Eveline Klompe, Columbia University • Aurora Kraus, University of New Mexico • Jaeeon Lee, Harvard University • Abhijit Parolia, University of Michigan • Katarzyna Parys, Gregor Mendel Institute of Plant Molecular Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences • Talmo Pereira, Princeton University • Jacob L. Steenwyk, Vanderbilt University • Bo Xia, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
2021 Recipients
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
2000-2020 Awardees
View a list of previous awardees