Funding & Awards (Working Copy Dec 2025)

Current Funding & Awards

  • Orange Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program award logo

    Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP)

  • Blue PEW logo

    Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences

    2025

  • Simons Foundation logo

    Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows

  • HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar logo

    HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar

    2023 - 2033

  • Leon Levy Scholarship in Neuroscience logo

    The Leon Levy Scholarship in Neuroscience

    2023 - 2026
    (Dr. Thiago Arzua)

  • Columbia | Zuckerman Institute logo

    Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research

    2021 - Present

Past Funding & Awards

  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative logo

    Chan Zuckerberg Collaborative Pairs

    2024 - 2025
    (with Dr. Jason Shepherd)

  • D-SPAN logo

    NIH D-SPAN K00

    2024 - 2028
    (Dr. Courtney McDermott)

  • Ernest E. Just logo

    Ernest E. Just Postgraduate Fellowship

  • The McKnight Foundation logo

    McKnight Scholar Award

    2024

  • NIH logo

    NIH/NICHD F31 Award

    2024 - 2026
    (Briana McRae)

  • Bruce McEwen Memorial Early Career Investigator award with a picture of Bianca Jones Marlin's headshot in the center

    Bruce McEwen Memorial Early Career Investigator Award

    2024

  • CZI logo

    Zuckerman Institute, Exceptional Overall Engagement 2024

    2024

  • UNCF logo

    Ernest E. Just Early Career Investigator Award

    2023 - 2024

  • Hypothesis Fund logo

    Hypothesis Fund

    2023 - 2024

  • Columbia University logo

    Provost’s Grants Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University

    2023 - 2024

  • Whitehall Foundation logo

    Whitehall Foundation

    2023 - 2024

  • Dr. Thiago Arzua on a Forbes 30 list announcement

    Forbes 30 Under 30 - Science

  • Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF), PhD Fellowship logo

    Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF), PhD Fellowship

    2022 - 2024
    (Valentine Andreu)

  • Brain and Behavior Research Foundation logo

    Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

    2022 – 2024

  • Columbia University logo

    Columbia University, Research Initiatives in Science & Engineering

    2022 - 2024
    (with Dr. Mijo Simunovic)

  • Vanderbilt University Basic Sciences’ Juneteenth New Investigator Award

    Vanderbilt University Basic Sciences’ Juneteenth New Investigator Award

    2022

  • Cartoon of Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin in a yellow blazer in front of a green window

    The Brilliant 10: The Innovative Up-And-Coming Minds in Science

    2021

  • NSF logo

    National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship

    2020 - 2023
    (Beka Stecky)

  • Allen Institute Next Generation Leaders

    Allen Institute Next Generation Leaders

    2020

  • Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin working in a lab

    STAT Wunderkinds

    2017

  • Dr. Jones Marlin dressed in doctoral graduation robes while receiving dissertation a prize

    Sackler Dissertation Prize

    2016

  • Bianca Jones Marlin receiving the Donald Lindsley Prize

    Donald B. Lindsley Prize

    2016

  • Small mouse in the palm of a hand

    Discover 100 Top Stories of 2015

    2015

Affiliations

Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research

Department of Psychology

Department of Neuroscience

Principal Investigator at Columbia University

Zuckerman Institute