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Student and Trainee Awards

The Medical Neuroscience Graduate Program and Stark Neurosciences Research Institute at Indiana University School of Medicine offers annual fellowships and awards for graduate students and trainees — the next generation of neuroscientists.

The Paul and Carole Stark Medical Neuroscience Graduate Fellowship is for PhD students in the Indiana BioMedical Gateway (IBMG) program and MD/PhD students in the Medical Scientist Training Program at IU School of Medicine transitioning to the Medical Neuroscience program. The fellowship provides funding — a stipend, health insurance, and tuition for one academic year. 

The Larry Kays Fellowship is eligible for Medical Neuroscience graduate students who have a PhD candidacy, are current with program requirements and are within one year of graduation. The fellowship, created by neurologist Dr. Larry Kays who designated part of his trust for monetary awards for students pursuing careers in basic neuroscience. The award is $2,500.

Stark Neurosciences Research Institute is also home to the Training Grant on Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias, co-led by Bruce Lamb, PhD; Gary Landreth, PhD and Andrew Saykin, PsyD. This National Institute on Aging-funded T32 grant program selects four postdoctoral researchers and four predoctoral students, appointments for typically two years based on performance. The appointment provides a stipend/pay with health insurance, tuition, travel and lab supplies. The program has enlisted 25 faculty at IU School of Medicine who have a broad range of expertise including data science, non-invasive imaging, the development and study of animal models, genomics, epidemiology, drug development and clinical research.

2024: Noah Burket, Selena Wang, Emily Yang 
2023: Damon Germano, Kelly Hartigan, Jenna Koenig
2022: Soumilee Chaudhuri, Enrique Chimal Juarez, Evan Messenger
2021: Kavitha Anbarasu, Jinhyeong Bae
2020: Jocelyne Hanquier, Wes Stansberry
2019: Dominic Acri, Gregory Grecco, David Haggerty
2018: Kaitlin Jones, Xavier Taylor, Andy Tsai, Shudi Zhou
2017: Jheel Patel, Austin Reilly
2016: Darryl Watkins, Agnes Zybura
2015: Cristian Bernabe, Evgeny Chumin
2014: Aaron Weiss
2013: Joey Contreras
2012: Erik Dustrude
2011: Reesha Patel
2010: Sarah Wilson
2009: Chao Li, Karl Koehler
2008: Nicole Ashpole, Natalie Case
2007: Leslie Sitzman, Shannon Risacher
2006: Amy Bracken, Sarah Berg
2005: Nelia Gracias, Patrick Sheets

2024: Gabriella Hartman, Henika Patel, Wes Stansberry
2023: Dom Acri, Peter Lin, Ting Wang
2022: Andy Tsai, David Haggerty, Hayley Drozd
2021: Gregory Grecco, Jheel Patel, Xavier Taylor
2018:Robert Waeiss, Katharine Andrews, Sreeparna Majumdar
2017: Evgeny Chumin, Cristian Bernabe
2016: Joey Contreras, Daniel Levy
2015: Kacie Deters, Reesha Patel
2014: Lauren Federici
2013: Sarah Wilson, Karl Koehler
2012: Daniel Albrecht, Nicole Ashpole
2011: Justin Long, Susan Conroy
2010: Sarah Berg, Joel Brittain, Shannon Risacher

Training Grant on Alzheimer's Disease and ADRD Awardees

Priya Shields (2024 & 2025*)

Kelly Hartigan (2024 & 2025*)

John Hoffman (2024 & 2025*)

Evan Messenger (2024 & 2025*)

Kaylee Tutrow (2023)

Wesley Stansberry (2022 & 2023)

Kaitlyn Dybing (2022 & 2023)

Desarae Dempsey (2022 & 2023)

Jonathan Huang (2021 & 2022)

Sagara Wijeratne (2021 & 2022)

Dominic Acri (2021)

Samantha Colin (2021)

 

*Anticipated

Juan Antonio Chie Chong (2024 & 2025*)

Jennifer Hensel (2024 & 2025*)

Ryan Imhoff (2024 & 2025*)

Daniel Rivera (2024 & 2025*)

Md Mamun Al Amin (2022 & 2023)

Avi Benitah (2022 & 2023)

Thea Rosewood (2022 & 2023)

Evgeny Chumin (2021 & 2022)

Brian Eisinger (2021)

Louis Martin (2021)

*Anticipated