Awards & Honors

2026

Young-Geun Choi, MS

2026-27 AHA Predoctoral Fellowship (26PRE1564171)

2026 MOGAM-KASBP Scholarship, awarded by the Government of the Republic of Korea (ROK) thanks to the generous support of MOGAM Science Scholarship Foundation.

2025

Satya Das, PhD

Early Career High Impact Oral Presentation at the 7th Asian Cardiovascular Symposium at the AHA BCVS 2025 (Baltimore, MD)

Yukiko Endo, MD, PhD

Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2025-2026)

Excellence Award, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine Female Graduate Students Award (2025).

Excellent Paper Award, Tohoku University Department of Surgery Alumni Association (2025)

Riley Leonard, PhD

Oral Presentation at the AHA BCVS 2025 (Baltimore, MD)

Huang T, Radley A, Yanagida A, Ren Z, Carlisle F, Tahajjodi S, Kim D, O'Neill P, Clarke J, Lancaster MA, Heckhausen Z, Zhuo J, de Sousa JPA, Hajkova P, von Meyenn F, Imai H, Nakauchi H, Guo G, Smith A, Masaki H. Inhibition of PRC2 enables self-renewal of blastoid-competent naive pluripotent stem cells from chimpanzee. Cell Stem Cell. 2025 Apr 3;32(4):627-639.e8.

Hisato Nagano, MD, PhD

Overseas Research Fellowships, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2025-2026)

Young Investigator Award, Grand Prize, Japan Society of Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery (2025)

Hiro Nakauchi, MD, PhD

Ludwig Foundation grant, Bacharach Foundation grant
“DNA Transistors for Cellular Programming”
NIH R21GM159202 08/01/2025-07/31/2027

David H. Sachs, MD

Columbia University Research Stabilization Grant
“Role of MHC Matching in Transplant Tolerance Induction”
Total Funds: $99,972
Dates: 7/1/25 - 6/30/26

Joshua Weiner, MD

"Does MHC Class II Sharing Decrease Rejection and Promote Regulatory Tolerance in Intestinal Transplantation?"
Columbia University Research Stabilization Grant
Total Funds: $100,000
Dates: 7/1/25 - 6/30/26