Award Recipients

Congratulations to our 2020 Salk Women & Science Special Award Recipients

The Salk Women & Science Special Awards provide crucial support to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to pursue high-risk, high-reward research in stages too early to attract traditional funding. The awards are targeted towards supporting future scientific leaders who will also actively foster the increased participation of women and girls in science.

Bianca Barriga

Pfaff Lab
Investigating Effects of Exercise Training on Spinal Neural Networks

Hsiuyi Chen, PhD

McVicker Lab
Generating HIV-resistant human CD4+ T cells by introducing of thousands of chimpanzee alleles with massively-parallel genome editing

Sej Chung, PhD

Engle Lab
Defining the role of CA19-9 in the pancreatic microbiome

Sharon (Hsiang-Hsuan) Huang, MD

Jin Lab
Dissect the role of sensorimotor feedback in action sequencing

Youtong Huang

Lemke Lab
Microglial TAM receptors as modulators of pathology in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Andreea Manole, PhD

Gage Lab
Neuroinflammation associated with genetic defects in phospholipase A(2) and glucocerebrosidase

Heather McGee, MD, PhD

Kaech Lab
Investigating the role of radiation-induced innate immune cell activation in unique tumor microenvironments

Jia Ning, PhD

Hunter Lab
Establishing cell and mouse models to study RNA polymerase III-related neurodegenerative diseases

Annelise Snyder, PhD

Kaech Lab
Determining the role of microglial metabolic reprogramming in linking infection to Alzheimer’s disease

Yuan Xue, PhD

Belmonte Lab
Creating biocompatible electric organoids for the mammalian system

Congratulations to our 2019 Salk Women & Science Special Award Recipients

Juliana Capitanio, PhD

Martin Hetzer Lab
Deciphering the role of long-lived histones in the genomic landscape

Kay Chung, PhD

Susan Kaech Lab
Next-generation designer T cells for optimal and persistent anti-tumor immunity

Jessica Haley

Sreekanth Chalasani Lab
eSCAPEing the immobilized preparation: Whole-brain imaging in freely-moving animals

Wenrong He, PhD

Wolfgang Busch Lab
Identification of novel regulators for root system architecture by combining high-throughput chemical genetics and GWAS

Shijia Liu

Sung Han Lab
Dissecting neural circuits for opioid-induced respiratory depression

Nikki Lytle

Geoffrey Wahl Lab
Tracking cellular plasticity during tumorigenesis by intravital imaging

Amanda Phillips Yzaguirre, PhD

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Lab
Elucidating a novel mechanism of angiogenesis

Congratulations to our 2018 Salk Women & Science Special Award Recipients

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Thanks to you, we met our fundraising goal of $300,000.

Lydia Daboussi, PhD

Samuel Pfaff Lab
Genetic and functional characterization of a novel factor involved in nerve regeneration

Kathleen DelGiorno, PhD

Geoffrey Wahl Lab
Epithelial heterogeneity and the pathogenesis of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer

Isabella Farhy-Tselnicker, PhD

Nicola Allen Lab
Identification of novel protein complexes at developing synapses

Shefali Krishna, PhD

Martin Hetzer Lab
Long-lived proteins in the mitochondria and their role in aging

Emily Manoogian, PhD

Satchidananda Panda Lab
Artificial intelligence-driven optimum personalized lifestyle to sustain circadian rhythms, prevent disease, and accelerate recovery

Kathleen Quach, PhD

Sreekanth Chalasani Lab
Pristionchus pacificus as a nematode model of aggression

Shani Stern, PhD

Rusty Gage Lab
Novel humanized organoids based platform for modeling bipolar disorder

Neeraja Vegesna, PhD

Julie Law Lab
Characterization of a DNA damage specific chromatin reader

Cuiqing Zhong, PhD

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte Lab
Using interspecies chimeras to derive glucose-competent human pancreatic cells

Congratulations to our 2017 Salk Women & Science Special Award Recipients

We are thrilled to announce that we have reached our 2017 fundraising goal of $175,000. A special thank you to Lynne and Mason Rosenthal / Leo S. Guthman Fund for their significant lead gift and matching challenge!