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Postbac Poster Day 2026 Awards

A list of the recipients of the 2026 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 Giacalone

Collin Le

Djaina-shae Dervil

Gabriel Gibson

Grace Monette

Langston Locke*

Mattias Lenz

Michael Dunkelberg

Neha Gupta

Peyton Lee

Samuel Degenhard

Upamanyu Dass-Vattam

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)

Rebecca Jang

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

James Blackmore

Katherine De Paz

Nathan Chabin

Rohana Rudresh

Sunil Das

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Jamie Gudyka

Lucas Guerrero**

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

Nicholas Syracuse

National Cancer Institute-Frederick (NCI-Frederick)

Leanna Bai

Samantha Hoge

National Eye Institute (NEI)

Adam Kunz

Aishini Singh

Emma Attar

Evelyn Scarrow

Henry Lewinsohn

Isabela Tellez

Ishareet Sohal

Lucy Zha

Marsh Hessler

Sabrina Ripsman

Sena Gul

Sydney Steele

National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

Ainsley Richardson

Bethlehem Michael

Emily Knisely-Durham

Katelyn Leone

Morgan Kresslein

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

Abigail Glezer

Almira Ahmed

Amelie Yanes Urrutia

Colby Luiz

Elyse MacCall

Jose Vazquez

Kalen Bunch

Kevin Gery

Madelyne Dayan

Margaret Bradley

Morgan Skinner

Sara Burr

Seydeanna Delgado

Shane Grele

Sudha Anilkumar

Thomas Recupero

Trenton Williams

Yuvika Harsh

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Adam Luo

Alexandra Mann

Ayanna Kakar

Beianka Tomlinson

Cate Jones

Chad Sanehira

Connie Ryu

Danny Kanj

Derick Rivera

Dimitri Lin

Dylan Sacks

Ethan Arends

Evelyn Pizano

Felix Tomaneng Kim

Henry Lin

Isabella Pelt

Jake Szeszko

Maya Luse

Monica Mesecar*

Olivia Anderson

Srilakshmi Palanikumar

Thang Mung

Victor Martinez

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Jared Balsz-Diaz

Karolina Gal

Lacey Donahue

Marcelle Halfeld

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Angelina Varon

Anna Erickson

Christopher Friend

Daniel Bloor

Emily Hansen

Emma Varella

Grace Bodykevich

Hanan Brower

Jesse Do

Julianne Bullocj

Justin Gaines

Kaja Arusha

Kanika Chopra

Katherine Rees

Landen Conner

Logan Cook

Marissa Elassal

Marliece Barrios

Maxwell Herman

Noa Deutsch

Nora Auma

Priya Christensen

Rohit Chebbi

Sabrina Hammond

Samuel Gillespie

Sarah Ash

Soheil Farid Azar

Sonali Dasari

Sophia Henry

Thythy Do

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

Aditi Kodali

Ali Rizvi

Caleb Kim

Isabelle Staco

Murchana Barua

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)

Ajong Fonda*

Daniel Orion Bacuyag

Esohe Edomwandagbon

Kenny Chuwing

Robert Gan

Tosin Adedipe

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

Mya Wolfe

Otiti Mayo

Roshan Pathak

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Abigail Harr

Angela Kim

Asha Jotwani

Diane Kallah

Elanor Chang

Maeve Johnston

Mihir Beheray

Rohan Patil

Zoie Chan

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

Jasmine Jain

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

Emma Buxton

Erin Thomas

Jacob Timko

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

Alexandria Primich

Andrej Radoja

Ashley Bolds

Eleanor Flacke

Naomi Liu-Abramowicz

Seyedeh Yasaman Arefpour

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Arnav Thakar

Jazmin Gutierrez-Hernandez

Julia Bondareva

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Cordelia Hume

David Frankel

Pedro Barboza

Wilma Victoria Richiez Mateo

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Aaron George

Abaigeal Donaldson

Adrian Koretsky

Amy Ciceu

Andra Mutu

Andrea Huerta Alberca

Arantza Garcia

Carina Karp

Charlotte Dagli

Emily Knapp

Francisco Hernandez

Gabriel Bulacan

Ginger Smith

Giselle Hartley

Jack Howell

Jasper Shide

Joseph Choi

Richard Ho

Snezana Dimova

Soma Freeman

Sophia Cheng

Ursula Horn

Veronica Goveas

* 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