Extramural Fellowship Awardees

Year-Long Research Fellowships:

NIH Medical Research Scholars Program

  • 2023-2024 – Manasa Gardiraju
  • 2023-2024 – Jacob Tribble
  • 2021-2022 – Christy Nwankwo
  • 2021-2022 – Yen Luu
  • 2021-2022 – Madhavi Murali
  • 2020-2021 – Sriram Paravastu
  • 2020-2021 – Elizabeth Theng
  • 2020-2021 – Vijay Letchuman
  • 2019-2020 – Ben Bernard
  • 2018-2019 – Gurpreet Seehra
  • 2017-2018 – Grant Randall
  • 2016-2017 – Sachin Nair
  • 2015-2016 – Dean Merrill
  • 2014-2015 – Blake Montgomery

NIH Institutional Training Award

  • 2022-2023 – Pournika Muniyandi
  • 2017-2018 – Sachin Nair
  • 2016-2017 – Dean Merrill

NIH TL1/T32 Clinical Research Training Program Washington University

  • 2022-2023 – Preethi Tumati
  • 2022-2023 – Brevin Miller
  • 2022-2023 – Lauren Kazmair
  • 2021-2022 – Ashna Mahadev
  • 2021-2022 – Ameen Awad
  • 2021-2022 – Anna Fotouhi
  • 2020-2021 – Sharon Sabapathypillai
  • 2019-2020 – Abdullah Said
  • 2019-2020 – Siddhant Thukral
  • 2019-2020 – Andrew Peterson
  • 2018-2019 – Subhjit Sekhon
  • 2017-2018 – Sultan Khan
  • 2016-2017 – Omar Karadaghy
  • 2014-2015 – Furquann Sadiq

NIH TL1 Clinical Research Training Program University of Kansas Medical Center

  • 2022-2023 – Jada Obene-Agei
  • 2020-2021 – Kabir Torres
  • 2017-2018 – Carlee Oakley
  • 2015-2016 – Amanda Fletcher

Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuchein Student Research Fellowship

  • 2022-2023 – Siddharth Balaji
  • 2017-2018 – Comron Hassanzadeh

Northwestern University Dermatology Clinical Research Program

  • 2022-2023 – Sneha Poondru
  • 2019-2020 – Vishnu Harikumar
  • 2017-2018 – Vivek Singam

NIH NEI Intramural Research Award

  • 2020-2021 – Rishabh Gupta

NIH Cancer Research Training Program

  • 2022-2023 – Pournika Muniyandi

Orthopedic Sports Medicine Fellowship University of Kentucky

  • 2022-2023 – Kashif Javid

Mayo Clinic Orthopedic Surgery Artificial Intelligence Lab

  • 2022-2023 – Elizabeth Kaji

Summer Research Fellowships:

NIDDK Medical Student Research Training Program in Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolic Disorders

  • 2023 – Daniel Song (Vanderbilt)
  • 2023 – Hersha Nalam (Chicago)
  • 2023 – Sriya Korsaraju
  • 2023 – Krish Sardesai
  • 2022 – Felix Yang (Vanderbilt)
  • 2022 – Amit Ahliwalia (Wash U)
  • 2022 – Neil Shah (Wash U)
  • 2022 – Neehar Shah (Michigan)
  • 2022 – Keerti Ivaturi (Michigan)
  • 2022 – Dalton Hermanson (Alabama, Birmingham)
  • 2021 – Nila Palaniappan (Wash U)
  • 2021 – Karishma Kondapalli (Wash U)
  • 2021 – Victoria Shi (Wash U)
  • 2020 – Neal Shah (Vanderbilt)
  • 2020 – Harinee Arunachalam (Boston)
  • 2020 – Rohan Ahuja (Vanderbilt)
  • 2016 – Muhammed Alikhan (Vanderbilt)
  • 2016 – Yicheng Bao (Wash U)

NIH Summer Internship Program

  • 2023 – Nitin Nadella (SIP)
  • 2021 – Ellie Kaji
  • 2018 – Rashmi Thimmapuram
  • 2017 – Chizi Ibezim

Washington University Summer TL1 Research Training Program

  • 2023 – Joycie Chang
  • 2023 – Adeesh Parvathaneni
  • 2023 – Khythi Thallapureddy
  • 2023 – Benjamin Kazdan
  • 2023 – Sriram Zassenhaus
  • 2023 – Anya Kumar
  • 2023 – Lauren Baetje
  • 2023 – Grace Steinback
  • 2022 – Stuti Dala
  • 2022 – Sofia Laux
  • 2022 – Srujay Paniri
  • 2021 – Anika Mittal
  • 2021 – Matthew William
  • 2021 – Shiva Balasubramanian
  • 2020 – Sneha Poondru
  • 2020 – Pournika Muniyandi
  • 2020 – Tricia Carey
  • 2019 – Ishaan Jakhar
  • 2019 – Sky Cope
  • 2019 – Sriram Paravastu
  • 2018 – Yicheng Bao
  • 2018 – Vishwanath Ganesan
  • 2017 – Carlee Oakley

Lea Menhouse Springer Summer Research Program

  • 2022 – Neha Gutta

Aging and Neurological Diseases 

  • 2022 – Ella Kinder

SIR Radiology Summer Research Program

  • 2022 – Mira Malavia

American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association Research Program

  • 2022 – Victoria Cegielski

Washington University Pediatric Student Research Program

  • 2017 – Priyesha Bijlani

George Washington University Summer Research Internship

  • 2020 – Sidharth Ramesh
  • 2017 – Akash Jani

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Pediatric Oncology Education Program

  • 2017 – Vishnu Harikumar

MD Anderson Cancer Center Summer Research Program

  • 2023 – Dharti Patel
  • 2019 – Yen Luu
  • 2015 – Sanju Eswaran

University of Washington Summer Research Program in Rheumatology

  • 2019 – Dinya Jain

Wash U Cardiovascular Disease and Hematology Track (RADIANCE)

  • 2023 – Emmanuela Alawode

Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research – FAER

  • 2023 – Rabeel Rasheed (Boston Mass Gen)
  • 2023 – Heer Mehta (Wash U)
  • 2021 – Shubika Jain (Harvard)
  • 2020 – Anna Curtis (Utah)
  • 2019 – Mundeep Bawa

Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical Translation Science Institute Summer Research

  • 2018 – Shrushti Mehta

University of Kansas Medical Center Radiation Oncology Summer Research Program

  • 2018 – Shveta Thakkar

Children’s Mercy Hospital Pediatric Orthopaedic Summer Scholar Program

  • 2018 – Nyaluma Wagala

Children’s Mercy Hospital H.A. Wenner Pediatric Infectious Diseases Summer Research Fellowship

  • 2019 – Eshwar Kishore
  • 2018 – Nikhil Havaldar

Children’s Mercy Summer Research Fellowship Program

  • 2019 – Karina Shah

Health Policy Fellowship Initiative through the American Academy of Ophthalmology

  • 2017 – Ashwath Kumar

Unite for Sight Summer Program in India

  • 2017 – Elizabeth George

Society of Interventional Radiology Summer Medical Internship Program

  • 2021 – Herschel Gupta

Mayo Clinic Dean’s Scholar Program

  • 2020 – Jessica Anyaso

KU CTSA Summer Fellowship

  • 2019 – Shaan Patel
  • 2018 – Shrushti Mehta

Diversity Research Supplement Award – Dermatology Foundation Fellowship

  • 2021 – Christy Nwankw

Vanderbilt Anesthesia Summer Internship 

  • 2023 – Arkadeep Ghosh

Hunter Summer Scholars Program (OSU)

  • 2023 – Abbey Jin

Nationwide Injury Research Peds

  • 2023 – Holden Joynes

Minority Ophthalmology Mentoring Program

  • 2023 – Abbey Jin

Harvard – Longwood Short Term Research Training

  • 2023 – Anuhya Dayal

Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Summer Research Program at Wash U

  • 2023 – Eric Errampalli

UMKC/Affiliate Hospital

Neurology Research and Scholar Award

  • 2017 – Subhjit Sekhon
  • 2017 – Dane Stephens

University Orthopaedic’s Trauma Research Opportunity and Scholar Award

  • 2016-2017 – Nyaluma Wagala
  • 2015-2016 – Corey Wells

University Orthopaedic’s Hand Surgery Research Opportunity and Scholar Award

  • 2015-2016 – Sanju Eswaran

Project ADVANCER

  • 2017-2018 – Landon Rohowetz
  • 2016-2017 – Hunter Farris

UMKC Women’s Council Graduate Assistance Fund

  • 2016-2017
    • Kaitlyn Hill
    • Komal Kumar
    • Megan Lilley
    • Carlee Oakley