Funding & Awards (Working Copy Dec 2025)
Current Funding & Awards
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Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP)
2025
(Dr. Alexis Stutzman) -

Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
2025
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Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows
2025
(Dr. Alexis Stutzman) -

HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
2023 - 2033
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The Leon Levy Scholarship in Neuroscience
2023 - 2026
(Dr. Thiago Arzua) -

Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research
2021 - Present
Past Funding & Awards
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Chan Zuckerberg Collaborative Pairs
2024 - 2025
(with Dr. Jason Shepherd) -

NIH D-SPAN K00
2024 - 2028
(Dr. Courtney McDermott) -

Ernest E. Just Postgraduate Fellowship
2024
(Dr. Alexis Stutzman) -

McKnight Scholar Award
2024
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NIH/NICHD F31 Award
2024 - 2026
(Briana McRae) -

Bruce McEwen Memorial Early Career Investigator Award
2024
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Zuckerman Institute, Exceptional Overall Engagement 2024
2024
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Ernest E. Just Early Career Investigator Award
2023 - 2024
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Hypothesis Fund
2023 - 2024
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Provost’s Grants Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University
2023 - 2024
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Whitehall Foundation
2023 - 2024
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Forbes 30 Under 30 - Science
2023
(Dr. Thiago Arzua) -

Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF), PhD Fellowship
2022 - 2024
(Valentine Andreu) -

Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
2022 – 2024
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Columbia University, Research Initiatives in Science & Engineering
2022 - 2024
(with Dr. Mijo Simunovic) -

Vanderbilt University Basic Sciences’ Juneteenth New Investigator Award
2022
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The Brilliant 10: The Innovative Up-And-Coming Minds in Science
2021
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National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship
2020 - 2023
(Beka Stecky) -

Allen Institute Next Generation Leaders
2020
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STAT Wunderkinds
2017
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Sackler Dissertation Prize
2016
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Donald B. Lindsley Prize
2016
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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