Merit Abstract Awards

Past Winners

• 2020 Merit Abstract Awards

  Deniz Aksel, Harvard University

  Juan Alvarez, Harvard University
  Nur Shabrina Amirruddin, A*STAR
  Chen Atzmon, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Sarah Bowling, Boston Children's Hospital
  Vincenzo Calvanese, University of California Los Angeles
  Joana Claudio Ribeiro, University College London
  Katie Cockburn, Yale University
  Samuele Ferrari, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
  Corey Garyn, Columbia University
  Zaniar Ghazizadeh, Yale School of Medicine
  Ge Guo, University of Cambridge
  Takeshi Hatani, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
  Deirdre Hoban, Lund University
  Debabrata Jana, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology
  Adrian Janiszewski, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Geraldine Jowett, King's College London
  Suraj Kannan, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  Sathya Kannan, National University of Singapore
  Evgenii Kegeles, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
  Marine Krzisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
  Shiri Levy, University of Washington
  Peng Li, Nankai University
  Xiadong Liu, Monash University
  Raffaella Lucciola, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  Stephanie Luff, Washington University in St Louis
  Miyeko Mana, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Paul McKeever, University of Toronto
  Tomohiro Minakawa, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
  Matteo Maria Naldini, IRCSS San Raffaele Scientific Institute
  Peter Nicholls, Whitehead Institute
  Sachin Patel, Children's Hospital Boston
  Qi Qiu, University of Pennsylvania
  Giorgia Scapin, Nationwide Children's Hospital / The Ohio State University College of Medicine
  Erin Slatery, University of Cambridge
  Thai Tran, Merck & Co Inc.
  Larissa Traxler, University of Innsbruck
  Tomoya Uchimura, Kyoto University
  Silvia Velasco, Broad Institute/Harvard University
  Adrian Veres, Harvard University
  Li-Tzu Wang, National Taiwan University
  Samuel Wattrus, Boston Children's Hospital
  Yonglong Wei, Children's Research Institute
  Yan Yao, Columbia University Medical Center
  Shu-Chi Yeh, Massachusetts General Hospital
  Atilgan Yilmaz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Wenshu Zeng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  Ke Zhang, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
  Lingling Zhang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  Lili Zhu, Gladstone Institutes
  
  

• 2019 Merit Abstract Awards

  Juan Alvarez-Dominguez, Harvard University
  Thomas Ambrosi, Stanford University
  Madeline Andrews, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
  Mariaceleste Aragona, Université Libre De Bruxelles
  Aparna Bhaduri, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
  Romeo Blanc, University of Rochester Medical Center
  Joel Blanchard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Kayleigh Bozon, The Francis Crick Institute
  Freya Bruveris, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
  Vincenzo Calvanese, University of California Los Angeles
  Di Chen, UCLA
  Hao Chen, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS)
  Elisa Clark, University of Washington
  Malkiel Cohen, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
  Samuel Collombet, EMBL
  Bruno Di Stefano, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
  Marlon Dias, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
  Susan Eliazer, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
  Ramy Elsaid, Institut Pasteur
  Elena Enzo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  Ugomma Eze, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
  Ali Fathi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Hananeh Fonoudi, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
  Mukul Girotra, University of Lausanne
  Ernesto Goulart, University of Sao Paulo
  David Grommisch, Karolinska Institutet
  Mingxia Gu, Stanford University
  Franklin Herbert, Christian Medical College
  Mirabelle Ho, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
  Wenxiang Hu, University of Pennsylvania
  Wei Huang, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
  Tsuyoshi Iida, Keio University
  Satoshi Ikeo, Kyoto University
  Ammar Jabali, Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI), University of Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center
  Marie Jonsson, Lund University
  Cody Kime, RIKEN
  Azuma Kimura, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
  Siddharth Kishore, University of Pennsylvania
  Andrew Lee, Carnegie Mellon University
  Choon-Soo Lee, Center for Medical Innovation, Seoul National University Hospital
  Ang Li, University of Texas
  Lu Li, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB)
  Nils Lindstrom, University of Southern California (USC)
  Cambrian Liu, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
  Kadi Lohmussaar, Hubrecht Institute
  Wan-Jin Lu, Stanford University School of Medicine
  HIroyuki Matsumura, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
  Alicia Mayeuf-Louchart, INSERM U1011, UNIVERSITE DE LILLE-EGID
  Bushra Memon, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute-Qatar Foundation
  Aditya Mithal, Boston University School of Medicine
  Masashi Miyauchi, The University of Tokyo
  Taiki Nakajima, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
  Yoko Nishinaka-Arai, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
  Sangbum Park, Yale University
  Ralitsa Petrova, UCSF
  Antonella Pinto, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
  Jens Puschhof, Hubrecht Institute
  Edwin Rosado-Olivieri, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
  Alexander Ross, University of Cambridge
  Erin Sanders, Stanford University
  Aditya Sankar, University of Copenhagen
  Munirah Santosa, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB)/ A*STAR
  Arun Sharma, Harvard Medical School
  Bo Shen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Takahiro Shiga, Juntendo University School of Medicine
  Jian Shu, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard/Whitehead Institute
  Joanna Smeeton, University of Southern California (USC)
  Enrique Sosa, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  Junichi Tanaka, School of Dentistry / Showa University
  Fang Tao Stowers, Institute for Medical Research
  Kei-ichi Tsukiboshi, Juntendo University School of Medicine
  Daniel Wagner, Harvard Medical School
  Magdalena Wagner, Karolinska Institutet
  Zhenghao Yang, Peking University
  Qi Yao, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
  Atilgan Yilmaz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Bing Zhang, Harvard University
  Linfeng Zhang, Tongji University
  Jiasheng Zhong, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
  Jan Zylicz, Institut Curie and University of Cambridge
  
  

• 2018 Merit Abstract Awards

  Yaser Atlasi, Radboud University

  Scott Bell, McGill University
  Mimi Borrelli, Stanford University
  German Camargo Ortega, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen & University of Munich
  Xi Chen, Tsinghua University
  Jun Chen, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing
  Laura De Rosa, Centre for Regenerative Medicine,Univeristy of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  Yvanka De Soysa, UCSF/Gladstone Institutes
  Florijn Dekkers, Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research
  Melanie Domingues, CSIRO
  Ahmed Fahmy, University of Toronto
  Rodrigo Grandy, University of Cambridge
  Elliott Hagedorn, Boston Children's Hospital
  Michael Hicks, UCLA
  Takuji Ito, Aichi Medical University
  Woong Bi Jang, Convergence Stem Cell Research Center
  Manabu Kasamoto, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application. Kyoto University
  Cody Kime, CDB RIKEN
  Yuko Kokubu, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, and  Takeda,CiRA Joint Program (T,CiRA)
  Choon-Soo Lee, Seoul National University Hospital
  Cuicui Liu, Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Department of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Peking Union Medical College
  Vikas Malik, Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health,Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIBH,CAS)
  Jana Mitchell, Harvard University
  Takenori Ogura, Center for iPS Cell Reseach and Application, Kyoto University
  John Ouyang, Duke,NUS Medical School
  Wu Qian, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  Jayesh Salvi, Stanford University
  Colinda Scheele, Netherlands Cancer Institute
  Charvi Syal, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
  Jorik van Rijn, UMC Utrecht
  Yaofeng Wang, Guangzhou Institue of Biomedine and Health, CAS
  Atilgan Yilmaz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Jan Zylicz, Institut Curie / University of Cambridge