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Postbac Poster Day 2025 Awards

A list of the recipients of the 2025 Postbac Poster Day Outstanding Poster Award.

Congratulations to the following recipients of Outstanding Poster Awards!

Posters were judged by teams of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and staff scientists/staff clinicians. These individuals are recognized for having authored posters that scored in the top 20% of all posters presented.

This year's winners are listed under their IC in alphabetical order by their first names.

Clinical Center (CC)

Anna Roberts
Erika Carmody
Jordan Dembsky
Payton McClarity Jones
Samay Shah

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Abigail Davis
Bridget Scherer
Brynn Brusseau
Fiona Daly

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Se Rin Lee

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Amir Khan
Benjamin Brim
Bhavya Soni
Braden Bell
Claire Piczak
Dhruv Pillai
Diego De Nault
Emily Xu
Jacob Minin
Jason Lin
Jessica Horner
Joshua Pandian
Julia Haggie
Julia Jones*
Karley White
Madeline Yuen
Makana Ioh
Mathew Witterholt
Natalie Convertino
Olivia Sconyers
Ons Bouali
Rachael Ashe
Shaunak Sathe
Soumili Dey
Srujana Yellapragada
Truman McNeil
Yash Sakhalkar

National Cancer Institute - Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (NCI-DCEG)

Garrett Hendley

National Cancer Institute-Frederick (NCI-Frederick)

Astrid Alvarez de La Cruz
Audrey Lyu
Elizabeth Abbott
Haley Tran
Olga Drozdovitch

National Eye Institute (NEI)

Abhi Verma
Aishini Singh
Eiden Brewer
Eleanor Ball
Samuel Ramirez
Surya Padmanabhan

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

Amra Kajdic
Caleb Rathbun
Chale Jacks
Charlotte Williams
Chenia Coulanges
Christian Kim
Devan Stoeling
Dinie Zheng
Jonathan Raymond
Lukas Johnson
Tara Desporte**

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Ann-Marie Abunyewa
Bharath Dileep Kumar
Kevin Gery
Lauren Knabe
Shruti Sathish

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Alex Guo
Alexis Ayuketah
Chad Sanehira
Eleanor Wind
Isabella He
Isabelle Kowal
Jinhyeok Park
Joe George
Keefer Li
Kylie Foutch
Linna Cui
Nicole Carmiol
Olivia Anderson
Samuel Essig
Shreya Mathur

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Abigail Holder
Akash Kotian

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Aiden Boving
Aislinn Bloom
Akosua Biritwum
Albert Park
Allison Zhao
Amanda Elias Rivera
Amay Shah
Ameera Ayaz
Annalie Harris
Elizabeth Morgan
Elizabeth Paul
Giovanni Cavalli
Hannah Kamphaugh
James Bruns
Jeffrey Hablewitz
Karenna Barton
Keerthi Konda
Keona Banks
Ketan Richard
London Nemmers
Madelyn Seemiller
Nathan Carrillo
Nikhila Kumar
Sarah Berland
Shannon Salo
Tasnim Belel
Tete Narh Mensah
Trinity Obiorah

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS)

Kanika Chopra
Karyssa Stonick
Rose Dever
Ryleigh Griffin
Sophia Chou

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

Cameron Baenen
Harris Ebrahim*
Julia Frank*

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Addison Parker
Allison Choe
Allison Rojas
Arun Rama-Krishnan
Benjamin Sempowski
Brittany Benner
Carolina Alvarez
Ella Segal
Emma Neiswender
Jackson Crane
Justin Gutkowski
Kailey Jerome
Natalie Hanby
Patrick O’Reilly
Robert Freedman
Rose Runyan
Samantha Bunner
Vedant Garg

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Aniah Matthews
Cole Rivell
Hannah Kim
Ilana Ascher
Isabella Ahearn
Julia Welsh
Justine Hill
Lucy Ward
Maria Scavnicky
Mia Lulli
Omodolapo Nurudeen
Pamela Osseyi
Stephanie Oh
Valerie Espinal Abreu
Zachary Shilling

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

Jan Kasal
Lesly Umanzor

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

Ava Movahed Abtahi
Damilola Killanin
Jamiya Kirkland
Sravya Pailla

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Devin Biesbrock
Isabelle Geneve
Jenna Oringher
Joelyz Wolcott
Olivia Lambertson
Phoenix Davis
Riley Lehman

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Maira Perez
Samuel Eliasen

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Diya Rai-Gersappe
Isabella Raso
Jade Tai
Jordan Jontz
Lucy Anderson
Marcel Gonzalez Pedraza
Seth Cutler
Sophia Hegel
Sophie Ledet
Wilma Victoria Richiez Mateo
Zoe Kaegi

National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Maryam Elhabashy
Roma Dhingra

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Abigail Potticary
Adrian Koretsky
Akashdiya Chakraborty
Angelo Madruga
Catie Kaneshiro
Elizabeth Jitendran
Ginger Smith
Jack Howell
Jack Peterson
Jennifer Tabet
Jenny Xu
Kapish Potula
Nicholas Ratliff
Rachel Shi
Reid Suddaby
Riana Zacharias
Sheryl Lin
Sophia Cheng
Stephanie Choi

National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Davis Bartels

* Funded by the OITE Postbac Enrichment Program, either currently or in the past
** Funded by the Undergraduate Scholarship Program, either currently or in the past