Student Honors and Awards

Recipient Honor or award

2025
Zack Mawaldi NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

2024
Hersh Bhargava Fifty Years "50 Fifty" Award
Jonathan Borowsky NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Lieza Chan QBC Retreat Poster Award for Best Poster in Chemistry & Structure
Radhika Dalal
Mary Anne Koda Kimble Seed Award for Innovation, Rosetta Commons Service Award
Kevin Delgado-Cunningham Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship
Kevin Alexander Estrada Alamo ARCS Fellowship
Yulia Gutierrez Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation PhD Scholarship
Gyuna Kim ARCS Fellowship
Rian Kormos Dr. Herbert Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Student Excellence Award
Alex Long Discovery Fellow, Hillblom/BARI Fellowship
Duncan Muir QBC Retreat Poster Award for Best Poster in Molecular Mechanisms
Ever O'Donnell Poster Award at the 77th Society of General Physiology Meeting
Joe Pepe NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
Daniela Rodea Discovery Fellow
Henry Scott Discovery Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Evelyn Strickland Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Patrick Zager AHA Fellowship, Mel Jones Award

2023
Alina Arzamassky Fifty Years "50 Fifty" Award
Hersh Bhargava President’s Lindau Nobel Foundation Fellowship, Discovery Fellows Program’s Michael Page, PhD Research Symposium
Jonathan Borowsky School of Pharmacy Apple Teaching Award
Radhika Dalal NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Dominic Grisingher Dr. Herbert Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Student Excellence Award
Adamo Mancino Mentorship Award
Duncan Muir Discovery Fellowship
Dru Myerscough NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Estelle Ronayne Discovery Fellowship, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, TA Award
Matthew Smith Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Christina Stephens Chancellor’s Award for Diversity: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership, School of Pharmacy Apple Teaching Award
Stephanie Wankowicz Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Jonathan Zhang Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation

2022
Angelika Arada Matilda Edlund Fellowship
Daniel Asarnow Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Hersh Bhargava UCSF Entrepreneurship Scholarship
Alain Bonny HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowship
Daphne Chen Discovery Fellowship
Elissa Fink 2022 Genentech Graduate Student Symposium in Chemical Research Award, Lloyd M. Kozloff Fellowship
Yessica Gómez UC President's Pre-Professoriate Fellowship
Nicholas Hoppe NIH NRSA
Maria Jaime Garza Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Rian Kormos DoD NDSEG Fellowship
Catherine Kuhn Dr. Herbert Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Student Excellence Award
Benjamin Orr DoD NDSEG Honorable Mention, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Isiac Orr NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Hailey Wallace Discovery Fellowship
Stephanie Wankowicz QBC Mentorship Award
Muziyue Wu AHA Fellowship

2021
Hersh Bhargava Computational Innovator Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award, Discovery Fellowship, DoD NDSEG, NSF GFRP Honorable Mention, TA Award
Bryan Faust TA Award
Yessica Gómez Outreach Award
Dominic Grisingher UCSF ARCS Fellowship
Matthew Hancock Computational Innovation Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award
Maru Jaime Garza TA Award
Greyson Lewis Discovery Fellows’ Michael Page, PhD Research Symposium
Adamo Mancino NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships – Doctoral program, TA Award
Lakshmi Miller-Vedam Biophysics Mentorship Award
Marco Mravic Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Andrew Natale Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award- 5th Year Class
Erik Navarro Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award- 4th Year Class
Benjamin Orr Dr. Herbert Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Student Excellence Award
Jack Strickland AHA Fellowship
Stephanie Wankowicz D.E. Shaw Research Women in Computational Chemistry Fellowship
Muziyue Wu Discovery Fellowship

2020
Hersh Bhargava UCSF ARCS Fellowship
Lillian Kenner Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Ajikarunia Palar NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention
Christina Stephens Discovery Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Pooja Suresh UCSF Lloyd M. Kozloff Fellowship
Stephanie Wankowicz Discovery Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2019
Marco Mravic Frank Goyan Award for Excellence in Physical Chemistry

Neville Bethel

HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowship, Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Derek Britain UCSF ARCS Fellowship
Lev Gendelev Poster Award UCSF-BCHSI-NVIDIA Deep Learning in Biomedicine
Nadja Kern Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Kyle Lopez Discovery Fellow
Paul Thomas Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging Graduate Student Fellowship

2018
Daniel Asarnow Dr. Herbert Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Student Excellence Award
Rachel Brunetti NIH NRSA
Yuan Gao Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Yessica Gomez NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Greyson Lewis Discovery Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Eugene Palovcak Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Sophia Tan NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Greyson Lewis  

2017
Ben Barad UCSF ARCS Fellowship
Neville Bethel Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, Frank M Goyan Award for Excellence in Physical Chemistry
Yessica Gomez NIGMS IMSD Fellowship
Christina Homer Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Nadja Kern Discovery Fellow
Marco Mravic HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
Jenna Pellegrino NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Paul Thomas UCSF-Genentech Fellowship
Samuel Thompson Dr. Herbert Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Student Excellence Award, Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Alex Wolff Discovery Fellow

2016
Ben Barad UCSF ARCS Fellowship
Miguel Betegon Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Neville Bethel American Heart Association
Jonathan Gable Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Yuan Gao Lloyd M. Kozloff Fellowship
Lev Gendelev Fletcher Jones
John Haliburton Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation
Ted Ho Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging Graduate Student Fellowship
Zairan Liu UCSF-Genentech Fellowship
Marco Mravic Discovery Fellow
Stefan Niekamp Discovery Fellow
Pooja Suresh NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2015
Ben Barad Discovery Fellow, UCSF ARCS Fellowship
David Burkhardt Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Alain Bonny National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Sara Calhoun Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Ilan Chemmama NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Yuan Gao Frank M Goyan Award for Excellence in Physical Chemistry
Evan Green NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Ted Ho American Heart Association
Christina Homer NIH NRSA
Max Horlbeck Discovery Fellow
Lillian Kenner NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Veronica Pessino American Heart Association
Alex Wolff Matilda Edlund

2014
Charles Greenberg Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
James Kraemer ASCB Kaluza Prize
Christina Homer, Veronica Pessino, Brian Sharon Discovery Fellow
Christina Homer UCSF-Genentech Fellowship
Brittany Belin Krevans Distinguished Dissertation Award
Evan Green Kellogg Chancellor Fellowship
Natalia Khuri UCSF ARCS Fellowship
Leanna Morinishi NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Samuel Thompson NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Justin Biel NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Zygy Roe-Zurz NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
David Booth Frank M Goyan Award for Excellence in Physical Chemistry
Elaine Kirschke Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
David Paquette Discovery Fellow
Natalia Khuri Discovery Fellow
Charles Greenberg Discovery Fellow
Jonathan Gable Discovery Fellow
Amy Chang Discovery Fellow

2013
Dan Lu Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Laura Lavery Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Natalia Khuri UCSF ARCS Fellowship
Rose Citron NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2012
Brittany Belin Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Caleb Bashor Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Jordi Silvestre-Ryan Chancellors Fellowship
Lev Gendelev Kellogg Chancellor Fellowship
James Kraemer UCSF ARCS Fellowship
Tara Friedrich, David Paquette NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2011
Chris McClendon Frank M Goyan Award for Excellence in Physical Chemistry
Stephen Floor Frank M Goyan Award for Excellence in Physical Chemistry
Diego Garrido-Ruiz UC Mexis - Conacyt Fellowship
Dan Lu UCSF Cancer Research Fellowship
Sara Calhoun Chancellors Fellowship
Weihan Li UCSF-Zaffaroni Fellowship
Brandon Razooky, Thomas Stevens, Amy Chang, Charles Greenberg NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Anselm Levskaya Clements Distinguished Thesis Award

2010
Ryan Ritterson Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Quincey Justman Clements Distinguished Thesis Award

2009
Geoff Rollins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Stephen Floor Mel Jones Excellence in Graduate Student Research Award
Jeremy Wilbur Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Sai Duriseti UCSF Cancer Research Fellowship
Stephen Floor UCSF ARCS Fellowship
David Booth NIH NRSA
Melanie Smith Hertz Fellowship
Anthony Shiver DOE GRFP Fellowship

2008
Edwin Rodriguez HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
Si-Han Chen UCSF-Zaffaroni Fellowship
Monica Tremont, Geoff Rollins, Joseph Kliegman, Brittany Belin, Jonathan Gable NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
David Savage Clements Distinguished Thesis Award
Deb Datta UCSF Cancer Research Fellowship
Molly Darragh UCSF ARCS Fellowship
Ziyuan Li UCSF-Zaffaroni Fellowship
Si-Han Chen Ministry of Taiwan Fellowship
Jenny Hsiao, Ryan Ritterson UCSF-Genentech Fellowship
Christopher McClendon PhRMA Foundation Fellowship
Gabe Rocklin, George Peterson National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

2007
Recipient Honor or award
Nick Endres Clements Distinguished Thesis Award