Postdoctoral/Research Associate Awards
The UT Neuroscience Institute competitively awarded 2021 Postdoctoral/Research Associate Awards to the following five candidates with mentors in the Neuroscience Institute: Koushik Mondal (Ophthalmology, Dr. Nawajes Mandal; Anatomy & Neurobiology, Dr. Anton Reiner), Pratheepa Rasiah (Ophthalmology, Dr. Raja Gangaraju), Alejandro Mata (Physiology, Dr. Jonathan Jaggar), Jungsoo Lee (Physiology, Dr. Valeria Vasquez), and Rong Zhang (Physiology, Dr. Helena Parfenova). The awardees were selected by the Neuroscience Executive Committee based on their productivity and promise in neuroscience research.
Previous Awardees
- 2020: Nikolai Fattakhov - Dr. Victor Chizhikov
- 2020: Kumar Jha - Dr. Raja Gangaraju
- 2020: Seyed Hosseini - Dr. Monica Jablonski
- 2020: Jungsoo Lee - Dr. Valeria Vasquez
- 2020: Igor Iskusnykh - Dr. Victor Chizhikov
- 2019: Rebeca Caires Mugarra - Dr. Julio Cordero-Morales
- 2019: Qian Wang - Dr. Fu-Ming Zhou
- 2019: Purnima Singh - Dr. Kafait Malik
- 2019: Mohamma Khan
- 2019: Raji Lenin - Dr. Raja Gangaraju
- 2019: Doaa Maria - Dr. Monica Jablonski
- 2019: Priya Muralidharan - Dr. Jonathan Jaggar
- 2019: Igor Iskusnykh - Dr. Victor Chizhikov
- 2018: Mohammed Moustafa -Dr. Monica Jablonski
- 2018: Kumar Jha -Dr. Raja Gangaraju
- 2018: Mohammad Khan
- 2018: Safa Bouabid -Dr. Fu-Ming Zhou
- 2018: Purnima Singh -Dr. Kafait Malik
- 2018: Rebeca Caires Mugarra -Dr. Julio Cordereo-Morales
- 2017: Safa Bouabid -Dr. Fu-Ming Zhou
- 2017: Mounir Bendahmane -Dr. Max Fletcher
- 2017: Kamalika Mukherjee -Dr. Kafait Malik
- 2017: Dhruba Pathak -Dr. Robert Foehring
- 2017: Mohammad Khan - Dr. Mark LeDoux
- 2017: Raji Lenin -Dr. Raja Gangaraju
- 2017: Mohammed Moustafa -Dr. Monica Jablonski
- 2016: Wei Wei, Physiology - Dr. Kristen O'Connell
- 2016: Mounir Bendahmane, Anatomy & Neurobiology -Dr. Max Fletcher
- 2016: Kamalika Mukherjee, Pharmacology -Dr. Kafait Malik
- 2016: Dhruba Pathak, Anatomy & Neurobiology -Dr. Robert Foehring
- 2015: Wei Wei, Physiology - Dr. Kristen O'Connell
- 2015: Wenyan Han, Pharmacology -Dr. Hao Chen
- 2015: Mounir Bendahmane, Anatomy and Neurobiology -Dr. Max Fletcher
- 2015: Kamalika Mukherjee, Pharmacology -Dr. Kafait Malik
- 2015: Mallika Palamoor, Ophthalmology -Dr. Monica Jablonski
- 2015: Dhruba Pathak, Anatomy and Neurobiology -Dr. Robert Foehring
- 2014: Satya Vemula, Neurology - Dr. Mark LeDoux
- 2014: Wenyan Han, Pharmacology - Dr. Hao Chen
- 2014: Shengyuan Ding, Pharmacology -Dr. Fu-Ming Zhou
- 2014: Eloisa Pavesi, Anatomy and Neurobiology -Dr. Max Fletcher
- 2014: Snigdha Roy, Anatomy and Neurobiology - Dr. Robert Williams
- 2013: Shengyuan Ding, Pharmacology -Dr. Fu-Ming Zhou
- 2013: Megan Mulligan, Anatomy and Neurobiology - Dr. Robert Williams
- 2013: Eloisa Pavesi, Anatomy and Neurobiology - Drs.Max Fletcher/Scott Heldt
- 2013: Shankar Swaminathan, Ophthalmology -Dr. Monica Jablonski
- 2013: Satya Vemula, Neurology - Dr. Mark LeDoux
- 2013: Nobel Del Mar, Anatomy and Neurobiology -Dr. Marcia Honig
- 2012: Aditya Singh, Pharmacology -Dr. Alex Dopico
- 2012: Wenbo Ge, Anatomy and Neurobiology -Dr. Marcia Honig
- 2012: Ying Cao, Anatomy and Neurobiology –Dr. Detlef Heck
- 2012: Liyuan Li, Ophthalmology –Dr. Monica Jablonski
- 2012: Nora Urraca, Neurology –Dr. Larry Reiter
- 2012: Christina Winborn, Ophthalmology – Dr. Edward Chaum
- 2012: Yu Zhao, Neurology – Dr. Mark LeDoux
- 2011: Ying Cao, Anatomy and Neurobiology –Dr. Detlef Heck
- 2011: Brett Jennings, Pharmacology –Dr. Kafait Malik
- 2011: Liyuan Li, Ophthalmology –Dr. Monica Jablonski
- 2011: Aditya Singh, Pharmacology –Dr. Alex Dopico
- 2011: Kenichi Tokita, Anatomy and Neurobiology –Dr. John Boughter
- 2011: Nora Urraca, Neurology –Dr. Larry Reiter
- 2011: Christina Winborn, Ophthalmology – Dr. Edward Chaum
- 2011: Mao Yang, Anatomy and Neurobiology –Dr. Marcia Honig
- 2011: Yu Zhao, Neurology – Dr. Mark LeDoux
- 2010: Anna Bukiya, Pharmacology –Dr. Alex Dopico
- 2010: Paula Dietrich, Physiology –Dr. Ioannis Dragatsis
- 2010: Brett Jennings, Pharmacology –Dr. Kafait Malik
- 2010: Juhyon Kim, Anatomy and Neurobiology –Dr. Hitoshi Kita
- 2010: Guohua Liang, Physiology –Dr. Jonathan Jaggar