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Fred Hutch announces 2023 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipients - Twelve graduate students from around the U.S. selected for prestigious award in biological sciences

Based on an article from the Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Cornell's Saket Bagde was announced as one of twelve recepients of the 2023 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which, "recognizes exceptional achievement in graduate studies in the biological sciences." Please read the article from the Fred Hutch Cancer Center to learn more about Saket's acheivment and the history of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award.

2023 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipients:

Saket Bagde
Ph.D., biochemistry, molecular and cell Biology
Cornell University

Maria Ahmed
Ph.D., molecular, cellular and developmental biology
University of Michigan

Francisco Galdos
Ph.D., stem cell and regenerative medicine
Stanford University

King Hung
Ph.D., cancer biology
Stanford University

Kathleen Morrill
Ph.D., neuroscience
UMass Chan Medical School

Lila Neahring
Ph.D., developmental and stem cell biology
University of California, San Francisco

Megan Okada
Ph.D., biochemistry
University of Utah

Aditya Raguram
Ph.D., chemical biology
Harvard University

Rafael Rivera-Lugo
Ph.D., molecular and cell biology
University of California, Berkeley

Alexandra Schnell
Ph.D., immunology
Harvard University

Rachael Workman Sparklin
Ph.D., biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Roger Zou
Ph.D., biomedical engineering
Johns Hopkins University

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