Previous Kaushal Awards Recipients

Year Awardee Advisor Publication
2016 Genetics Predoc Sumeet Khetarpal Dan Rader Loss of Function of GALNT2 Lowers High-Density Lipoproteins in Humans, Nonhuman Primates, and Rodents
2016 Genetics Postdoc Yao Yao Doug Epstein Decoding enhancer activity in the developing brain
2017 Genetics Predoc Alan Tang Mark Kahn Endothelial TLR4 and the microbiome drive cerebral cavernous malformations
2017 Genetics Postdoc Daniel Bose Shelley Berger RNA Binding to CBP Stimulates Histone Acetylation and Transcription
2018 Genetics Predoc Yong Kim Mitch Lazar Rev-erbα dynamically modulates chromatin looping to control circadian gene transcription
2018 Genetics Postdoc Takashi Akera Michael Lampson Molecular and evolutionary strategies of meiotic cheating by selfish centromeres
2019 Genetics Predoc Jeremy Grevet Gerd Blobel Domain-focused CRISPR screen identifies HRI as a fetal hemoglobin regulator in human erythroid cells
2019 Genetics Postdoc Hui Chen Matt Good Spatiotemporal Patterning of Zygotic Genome Activation in a Model Vertebrate Embryo
2020 Genetics Predoc Eduardo Torre Arjun Raj Genetic screening for single-cell variability modulators driving therapy resistance
2020 Genetics Predoc Jennifer Luppino Eric Joyce Cohesin promotes stochastic domain intermingling to ensure proper regulation of boundary-proximal genes
2020 Genetics Postdoc Qi Qiu Hao Wu Massively parallel and time-resolved RNA sequencing in single cells with scNT-Seq
2021 Genetics Predoc Kamen Simeonov Chris Lengner Single-cell lineage tracing of metastatic cancer reveals selection of hybrid EMT states
2021 Genetics Postdoc Tingfang Chen Doug Epstein Cochlear supporting cells require GAS2 for cytoskeletal architecture and hearing
2022 Genetics Predoc Joel Rurik Jonathan Epstein CAR T cells produced in vivo to treat cardiac injury
2022 Genetics Postdoc Yi Zhou Hongjun Song Molecular landscapes of human hippocampal immature neurons across lifespan
2023 Genetics Predoc Daniel Park Eric Joyce High-throughput Oligopaint screen identifies druggable 3D genome regulators
2023 Genetics Postdoc Karl Glastad Shelley Berger Hormonal gatekeeping via the blood brain barrier governs behavior
2023 Multidisciplinary  Predoc Jian Hu Mingyao Li SpaGCN: Integrating gene expression, spatial location and histology to identify spatial domains and spatially variable genes by graph convolutional network
2024 Genetics Predoc Emily Feierman    Erica Korb Histone variant H2BE enhances chromatin accessibility in neurons to promote synaptic gene expression and long term memory 
2024 Genetics Postdoc Katherine Alexander Shelley Berger Nuclear speckles regulate HIF-2a programs and correlate with patient survival in kidney cancer
2025 Genetics Predoc Sarah Grandinette Kiran Musunuru Patient-specific in vivo gene editing to treat a rare genetic disease
2025 Genetics Postdoc Christopher Large John Murray Lineage-resolved analysis of embryonic gene expression evolution in C. elegans and C. briggsae
2025 Multidisciplinary Predoc Amelia Schroeder Mingyao Li Scaling up spatial transcriptomics for large-sized tissues: uncovering cellular-level tissue architecture beyond conventional platforms with iSC ALE