Mandy Goldberg, Ph.D., an IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow, was selected to the NIH Independent Research Scholars program and started her independent research group in Epidemiology Branch in 2023.
Anna Kreutz, an NIEHS IRTA postdoctoral fellow, received a Toshio Narahashi Neurotoxicology Fellowship Award for her work developing alternative methods to assess the neurotoxicity of chemicals.
Kaitlyn G. Lawrence, Ph.D., a staff scientist in the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Group led by Dr. Dale Sandler, won the 2023 NIMHD Coleman Research Innovation Awards. Her research project is Extreme Heat Events and Epigenetic Age Acceleration: Evaluating Sociodemographic Inequities in a U.S.-Based Cohort of Women.
Jasmine Mack, an IRTA Predoctoral Fellow in the Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch, won the 2023 NIH Intramural Office of Autoimmune Diseases Research (IOADR) Fellowship.
Erin E. McNell, an IRTA Predoctoral Fellow in the Perinatal & Early Life Epidemiology Group led by Dr. Kelly Ferguson, won the 2023 NIH Graduate Student Research Award.
Virginia Savy, Ph.D., a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Reproductive Medicine Group led by Dr. Carmen J. Williams, won the Lalor Foundation Merit Award from the 56th annual meeting of Society for the Study of Reproduction.
Kedar Sharma, Ph.D., a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Molecular Microscopy Consortium led by Dr. Mario J. Borgnia, won the 2023 NIH Intramural AIDS Research Fellowship (IARF).
Preston Siegler, an NIEHS Diversity Intramural Research Training Award predoctoral fellow, has been selected as a Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP) Fellow by the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the SfN Professional Development Committee, and its Neuroscience Scholars Program subcommittee.
Jennifer Woo, Ph.D., an IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chronic Disease Epidemiology Group led by Dr. Dale Sandler, won the 2023 NIMHD Coleman Research Innovation Awards. Her research project is Early Life Neighborhood Deprivation and Life Course Socioeconomic Trajectory and Breast Cancer Disparities in the Sister Study Cohort.
She also won the 2023 NIH Intramural Office of Autoimmune Diseases Research (IOADR) Fellowship.
Mary V. Diaz Santana, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow (BCBB) was selected to the NIH Independent Research Scholars program and started her independent research group in BCBB in 2022.
Michael Nodzenski, an NIEHS Intramural Research Training Award predoctoral fellow, has won the 2021 Larry Kupper Award for his work using an algorithm to detect genetic causes of young-onset diseases. The award recognizes the best published paper related to dissertation research in the biostatistics department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). It is named after a biostatistician and distinguished UNC professor known for pioneering statistical methodologies.
