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 2023 is currently closed.
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 5, 2023, 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.
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 2022. 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, 2023.
Please address questions regarding this award or the symposium to Susan Parkhurst.
Deadline for 2023 nominations is Dec 15, 2022.
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Current Weintraub Award Winners
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
Past Four Years of Weintraub Award Winners
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
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
William Allen, Stanford • Adair Borges, UCSF • Ava Carter, Stanford • Yiming Chen, UCSF • Adam Dingens, Fred Hutch • Kiara Eldred, Johns Hopkins • Courtney Ellison, Indiana University • Bramwell Lambrus, Johns Hopkins SOM • Daniel Montoro, Harvard • Sofia Quinodoz, Caltech • Alexandra Walls, UW • Greg Wyant, MIT • Stephen Xingjie Zhang, Harvard Medical School
For a list of previous awardees 2001-2018