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Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Awards

PAST RECIPIENTS

2013

Oral Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Angel Byrd – MD/PhD Candidate The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Second Prize:	Akriti Kharbanda – Post-baccalaureate, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts - 2011
Third Prize:	Hasina Maredia – College Student Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Poster Presentation Award Recipients

Microbiology, Immunology, Genetics, or Molecular Biology Category

First Prize:	Rodrigo Romero - Post-baccalaureate, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts - 2011
Second Prize:	Richa Gupta, PhD - Postdoctoral Research Fellow Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Third Prize:	Seblewongel Asrat - PhD Candidate Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts

Cellular Biology, Neuroscience, Biochemistry, or Physiology Category

First Prize:	Theanne Griffith - PhD Candidate Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
Second Prize:	Kaitlin Bohon - College Student Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Third Prize:	Djade Soumana - PhD Candidate University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts

Public Health, Epidemiology, or Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Physics, Chemistry, or Engineering and Clinical or Social Science (including Translational Research) Categories

First Prize:	Share-Leigh Arneaud-Bernard - Community College Student Roxbury Community College, Boston, Massachusetts
Second Prize:	Charles Odonkor - MD Candidate Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Third Prize:	Geoffrey Korir - PhD Candidate University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts

2012

2012 Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Awards Winners

Oral Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Jose Alfaro Quezada - Post-baccalaureate, Tufts University, 08 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Second Prize:	Tatiana Hoyos, MD - Postdoctoral Research Fellow Massachusetts General Hospital
Third Prize:	Danielle Rand - PhD Candidate Brown University

Poster Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Schaneque Barrows-Murphy – Community College Student Roxbury Community College
Second Prize:	Ebaa Al-Obeidi – College Student Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Third Prize:	Jacob Kariuki - PhD Candidate University of Massachusetts Boston

Honorable Mention Recipients

Carolina Salguero – PhD Student Harvard University

Dennise de Jesus – PhD Student Tufts University School of Medicine

Andres Madrigal – MD/PhD Candidate Boston University School of Medicine

2011

2011 Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Oral Presentation Awards Recipients

Oral Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Chidinma Anakwenze - College Student University of Alabama at Birmingham
Second Prize:	Karmella Haynes, PhD - Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harvard Medical School
Third Prize:	Dennis Dean II - PhD Candidate University of Massachusetts

2011 Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Poster Presentation Award Recipients

Poster Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Alexis Tchaconas – College Student Columbia University
Second Prize:	Tennessee Tatiana Nathanson – College Student Emory University
Third Prize:	Osama Zayyad – College Student Yale University

 

2011 Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Honorable Mention Recipients: Debattama Sen and Komal Kothari

Honorable Mention Recipients

Debattama Sen – College Student Columbia University

Komal Kothari – College Student Columbia University

Ignacio Salas – College Student University of California Berkeley

Binsen Li, Paola Peshkepija and Ramza Shahid – College Students Connecticut College

2010

Some of the 2010 Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Awards Recipients,
and The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Awards Recipients

Oral Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Polakit Teekakirikul, MD - Postdoctoral/Research Fellow Harvard Medical School
Second Prize:	Sunah Hwang - Clinical Fellow Children's Hospital Boston, Division of Newborn Medicine
Third Prize:	Marianna Sarkissyan - Post-Baccalaureate Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science

Poster Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Gowry Kulandaivel - College Student University of Maryland Baltimore County
Second Prize:	Rifat Ara Zaman - College Student Colgate University
Third Prize:	Lamin Mbye, PhD - Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital

Honorable Mention Recipients

Latrice Landry - MD, PhD Candidate Tufts University School of Nutrition, Science & Policy

Reuben Carter - College Student Georgia State University

Sarah Phillips - College Student Tufts University

2009

2009 Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Awards, and The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer
Center Awards Recipients

Oral Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Binta Beard - ScD Candidate
Second Prize:	Bolaji Akala - MD, PhD Candidate University of Michigan Medical School
Third Prize:	Gregory Ford, PhD - Postdoctoral Research Fellow Morehouse School of Medicine

Poster Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Pushpa Neupane - College Student Wesleyan University
Second Prize:	Jonathan Abraham - MD/PhD Candidate Harvard Medical School
Third Prize:	Blythe Janowiak, PhD - Postdoctoral Research Fellow Harvard Medical School

Honorable Mention Recipients

Brandon Brooks - College Student Oklahoma State University

Arian Roman - College Student Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Amanda Chilaka - Master's Candidate Northeastern University

Lincoln Muhoro - Master's Candidate Clark University

2008

2008 Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Awards Recipients

Oral Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Vadim Villarroel - Post-Baccalaureate National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/National Institutes of Health
Second Prize:	Eydith Comenencia Ortiz - Post-Baccalaureate Tufts University
Third Prize:	Theophelus Hill - Post-Baccalaureate University of Pennsylvania

Poster Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Bryant Webb - Medical Student Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Second Prize:	Sara Tribune - College Student Tougaloo College
Third Prize:	Escar Kusema - College Student Colby College

Honorable Mention Recipients

Aynara Chavez-Munoz - College Student Colby College

Chiara Grisanzio, MD - Postdoctoral/Research Fellow Brigham and Women's Hospital

Ibarda Zambrano - Post-Baccalaureate National Institutes on Aging/National Institutes of Health

2007

2007 Ruth and William Silen, M.D. Awards Recipients

Oral Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Richard Guyer - Post-Baccalaureate University of Pennsylvania
Second Prize:	Luciann Cuenca - Post-Baccalaureate National Cancer Institute, NIH
Third Prize:	Hibo Mohamed, PhD Candidate Tufts University

Poster Presentation Award Recipients
(Postdoctoral Fellows; Medical, Dental, and Graduate Students)

First Prize:	Richelle Williams - PhD Candidate Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Second Prize:	Cheryl Overton - PhD Candidate Vanderbilt University
Third Prize:	Jasmine McDonald - PhD Candidate Harvard School of Public Health

(College and Community College Students; and Post-Baccalaureates)

First Prize:	Tashara Banks - Community College Student Cuyahoga Community College
Second Prize:	Dennise de Jesus - Post-Baccalaureate Tufts University Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Third Prize:	Vadim Villarroel - Post-Baccalaureate National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

2006

Oral Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Karl M. Thompson - PhD Candidate Howard University
Second Prize:	Karmella Haynes - Post-Baccalaureate Washington University
Third Prize:	David McCall - MD Candidate Howard University - College of Medicine

Poster Presentation Award Recipients
(Postdoctoral Fellows; Medical, Dental, and Graduate Students)

First Prize:	Marcello Vinces, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow Tufts University
Second Prize:	Anthony Hill, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Third Prize:	Glendene Lemard, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard School of Public Health

(College and Community College Students; and Post-Baccalaureates)

First Prize:	Abdulrasheed Alabi - Post Baccalaureate Johns Hopkins University, 2005
Second Prize:	Susana Rodriguez - Post Baccalaureate Children's Hospital Boston
Third Prize:	Nandam Nath - College Student Brown University

2005

Oral Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Joeli Marrero - PhD Candidate Tufts University
Second Prize:	Samuel T. Waters - Postdoctoral Fellow National Cancer Institute, NIH
Third Prize:	Jaime Imitola - Postdoctoral Fellow Brigham and Women's Hospital

Poster Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Elysia Alvarez - College Student Clark University
Second Prize:	Natasha Viquez - MD/PhD Candidate Washington University
Third Prize:	Elizabeth Glater - PhD Candidate Harvard Medical School

2004

Oral Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Elizabeth Glater - PhD Candidate Harvard Medical School
Second Prize:	Antonio Perez - College Student Harvard University
Third Prize:	Li Yu - Research Assistant National Institutes of Health

Poster Presentation Award Recipients

First Prize:	Judah Weathers - College Student Northeastern University
Second Prize:	Renell Morgan - Post Baccalaureate University of Pennsylvania
Third Prize:	Jordan Amatuegwu - Post Baccalaureate Stony Brook University, 2004