Early Career Investigator Awards

Early Career Investigator Awards

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Lea Duncker, Ph.D.

Simons Foundation Collaboration on the Global Brain Fellows-to-Faculty Transition Award

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Bianca Jones Marlin, Ph.D.

Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative Collaborative Pairs (with Jason Shepherd)
McKnight Scholar Award
HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program
UNCF E. E. Just Early Career Investigator Award
CU Office of the Provost’s Grants for Junior Faculty
Hypothesis Fund Award
Whitehall Foundation Three Year Research Grant
CU Research Initiatives in Science & Engineering (RISE) (with Mijo Simunovic)
BBRF NARSAD Young Investigator Grant

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Vikram Gadagkar, Ph.D.

NIH/OD/NCCIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2)
McKnight Scholar Award
Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience
Grossman-Kavli Scholar Award
Sloan Research Fellowship
NIH/NINDS K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
Searle Scholars Award
Konishi Neuroethology Research Award

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Yasmine El-Shamayleh, PhD

NIH/NEI R01
Grossman-Kavli Scholar Award
NSF CAREER Award 
McKnight Scholar Award
Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience

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Ashok Litwin-Kumar, PhD

NIH/NIDA RF1
McKnight Scholars Award
NIH/NINDS/BRAIN Initiative R34 (with Rudy Behnia)
Mathers Foundation Research Grant (with Rui Costa and Rudy Behnia)
Burroughs Wellcome Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI)

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, PhD

Grossman-Kavli Scholar Award
One Mind Rising Star Award
Columbia University Cancer Center & Arts and Science Award (with Yvon Woappi)
McKnight Scholar Award
HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar Award
NIH/NINDS Director’s HEAL Initiative New Innovator Award (DP2)
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award
Pew Biomedical Scholar Award
Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant
Columbia University Provost Grant for Junior Faculty
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience
Rita Allen Foundation Scholar in Pain Award

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Anthony Fitzpatrick, PhD

Eli Lilly and Company Grant
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Visual Proteomics Grant
Dana Foundation David Mahoney Neuroimaging grant
Cure Alzheimer's Fund
Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration Biomarkers Initiative Award
NIH/NINDS U01 (with Leonard Petrucelli and Judith Steen)

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Elias Issa, PhD

Grossman-Kavli Scholar Award
Sloan Research Fellowship
NIH/NINDS/BRAIN Initiative R34
Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience
NIH/NEI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award

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Andres Bendesky, MD, PhD

NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35)
NIH/NICHD R21
NIH/NINDS/BRAIN Initiative R34
Searle Scholar Program Award
Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neurosciences
Sloan Research Fellowship  
CU Research Initiatives in Science & Engineering (RISE) (with Darcy Kelley)

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Dmitriy Aronov, PhD

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
NIH/OD/NIA Director's New Innovator Award (DP2)
NYSCF Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Award
Beckman Young Investigator Award

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Rudy Behnia, Ph.D.

NIH/NINDS CRCNS R01
NIH/NINDS/BRAIN Initiative R34 (with Ashok Litwin-Kumar)
Mathers Foundation Research Grant (with Rui Costa and Ashok Litwin-Kumar)
NIH/NEI R01
Pew Biomedical Scholar Award
McKnight Scholar Award
Grossman-Kavli Scholar

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Minoree Kohwi, PhD

NIH/NIGMS R01
CU Research Initiatives in Science and Engineering (RISE) (with Elizabeth Hillman)
Hirschl Trust Research Award
Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
Whitehall Foundation Three-Year Research Grant
NIH/NICHD K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award