NERLSCD Travel Awards

2026 NERLSCD Travel Award Winners

Winners received $500 and admission to the NERLSCD 2026 anual meeting at WPI 

  • Basanthi Satish, UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL
  • Vikash Verma, University of Vermont
  • Ravi Misra, University of Rochester
  • Girish Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Amy Lyndaker, Cornell
  • Charles Blanchette, Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Emma Perry, University of Maine
  • Manisha Skaria, Yale

2026 ABRF Travel Awards

Winners received $750 to support travel to attend the 2026 ABRF annual meeting in Pittsburg

  • Jennifer Love, Genome Technology Core, Whitehead Institute
  • TuKiet Lam, Yale School of Medicine
  • Julie Sahler, Cornell University
  • Rich Cole, Fulton county NY Public Schools
  • Sridar Chittur, State University of New York at Albany
  • Adrian McNairn, Cornell University
  • Robert Steen, Harvard Medical School
  • Susanna Perkins, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Kamalakar Ambadipudi, Yale University
  • Kevin Claffey, UConn Health
  • Julie Rutherford, University of Maine

2025 NERLSCD Travel Award Winners

Winners received $500 and admission to the NERLSCD 2025 annual meeting in New Haven 

  • Charles Blanchette, Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Girish Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Xin Yu, Rutgers Cancer Institute
  • Colleen Netherby, Winslow, University of Rochester MC
  • Jennifer Love, Whitehead Institute
  • Stephen Mraz, Whitehead Institute
  • James VanEe, Cornell
  • Madolyn MacDonald, University of Delaware

2025 ABRF Travel Award Winners

Winners recieved $750 to support travel to attend the ABRF annual meeting in Las Vegas

2024 NERLSCD Travel Award Winners

Winners received $500 and admission to the NERLSCD 2024 annual meeting in Albany 

  • Basanthi Satish, UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL
  • John Haley, UMass Chan Medical School
  • Girish Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Bradley Mills, University of Rochester
  • Irena Stefankiv, University of Rochester Medical Center

2024 ABRF Travel Award Winners

Winners received $750 to support travel to attend the ABRF annual meeting in Minneapolis

  • Jennifer Aguilan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Kate Bennett, University of Pennsylvania
  • Elena Ghiban, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Chang Liu,   University of Rhode Island
  • Elizabeth Pritchett, University of Rochester
  • Chester Sears, Cornell University
  • Caroline Vergette, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
  • Gary Ward, Dartmouth Cancer Center