NIMH MD/PhD Student Conferences
NIMH is committed to supporting the research training of physician-scientists interested in research relevant to the mission of the NIMH. As part of this commitment, NIMH has occasionally sponsored conferences in conjunction with related scientific meetings for MD/PhD students interested in clinical neuroscience. Travel awardees present their work to the attendees at the MD/PhD Student Conference and benefit from scientific presentations and career development discussions with participating faculty and NIMH staff.
This page will be updated periodically as new meetings are announced.
Previous NIMH Travel Awardees:
The 3rd Annual Molecular Psychiatry Meeting (2015):
| Oluosoji Afuwape | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| Hannah Bernstein | New York University School of Medicine/Nathan Kline Institute |
| Samuel Clark | Columbia University |
| Ben Deverett | Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-Princeton University |
| Daniel Giovinazzo | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| Angela Ianni | National Institute of Mental Health/University of California, San Diego |
| Sarah Jefferson | Pennsylvania State University |
| Hannah Joo | University of California, San Francisco |
| Daniel Kashima | Vanderbilt University |
| Jason Keil | University of Michigan |
| Grace Kim | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Jacqueline Kulbe | University of Kentucky |
| Zachary Lorsch | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Vince Mirabella | Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-Princeton University |
| Spencer Moore | University of California, San Diego |
| Elisa Nabel | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Rajaillai Pillai | Stony Brook University |
| Sheng Tang | University of Pennsylvania |
| Vineet Tiruvadi | Emory University School of Medicine |
| Mary Youseff | Columbia University |
The 2nd Annual Molecular Psychiatry Meeting (2014):
| Abigail Clark | Columbia University |
| Josh Cohen | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Michelle Corkrum | University of Minnesota Medical School |
| Robert Corty | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Daniel Fisher | Northwestern University |
| Eulanca Liu | University of California, San Diego |
| Joseph Scarpa | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| Nicholas Schwartz | Stony Brook University |
| Veronica Searles | University of Colorado, Denver |
| Sara Stockman | University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Don Wei | University of California, Irvine |
| Aynara Wulsin | University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine |
The 49th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2010):
| Youngsun T. Cho | University of Rochester |
| Melisa Carrasco | University of Michigan at Ann Arbor |
| Erin C. Dowd | Washington University |
| Elizabeth R. Hoffman | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| John C. Hammond | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Matthew Lazarus | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| Uzoezi Ozomaro | University of Miami School of Medicine |
| Caitlin F. Rippey | University of Washington |
| Carolyn Ann Hogan | Washington University |
| Jason Chalifoux | NYU School of Medicine |
| Li Li | Stanford University |
The 47th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2008):
| Dongyang Zhang | Washington University |
| Raag Airan | Stanford University |
| Mica Bergman | Vanderbilt University |
| Terri Gertler | Northwestern University |
| Massih Hamidi | University of Wisconsin |
| Joanna Spencer-Segal | Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Jaime Lee Elliot | University of Wisconsin |
| Thomas Jarrett | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Danielle Guez-Barber | Yale University/National Institute on Drug Abuse |
| Martine Lamy | University of Cincinnati |
| Eric Landsness | University of Wisconsin |
| Anna Nelson | University of Colorado |
| Shelli Farhadian | Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional Program |
| Albert Russell Powers | Washington University |
| Gretchen Hermes | University of Chicago |
The 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry (2008):
| Asher Albertson | University of Alabama, Birmingham |
| Jonathan Chen | Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional Program |
| David Chiang | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Katy Cross | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Jasmin Dao | University of California, Irvine |
| Kalen Dionne | University of Colorado |
| Jennifer Dwyer | University of California, Irvine |
| Jeffrey Ehmsen | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Teresa Evans | Case Western Reserve University |
| Joshua Faguet | University of California, San Francisco |
| Ananda Fine | University of Illinois |
| Adam Frank | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Benjamin Freeze | University of California, San Francisco |
| Rachel Fremont | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Eric Gaier | University of Connecticut Health Center |
| Tamar Gur | University of Pennsylvania |
| John Hammond | University of Alabama, Birmingham |
| Keith Hanson | University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| September Hesse | Morehouse School of Medicine |
| Brian Hitt | Northwestern University |
| Kwo Wei (David) Ho | University of Iowa |
| Elizabeth Hoffman | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Gil Hoftman | University of Pittsburgh |
| Drew Kiraly | University of Connecticut |
| Matthew Lazarus | Stony Brook University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| John Lee | University of Iowa |
| Madeline Leong | Duke University |
| Sean Luo | Columbia University |
| Timothy Minh | University of California, Irvine |
| Khaled Moussawi | Medical University of South Carolina |
| Kelley O'Donnell | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Vishal Patel | Case Western Reserve University |
| Alejandro Ramirez | Columbia University |
| Reid Roberts | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Sarah Rogan | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Marco Russo | Columbia University |
| Adi Shemesh | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Andrew Slupe | University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine |
| Louisa Steinberg | Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
| Faraz Sultan | University of Alabama, Birmingham |
| Anna Wiste | Emory University |