Extramural Fellowship Awardees

Year-Long Research Fellowships

NIH Medical Research Scholars Program

2025-2026 – Nitkin Nadella
2024-2025 – Safa Farrukh
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

2024-2025 – Abbas Bader
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

2024-2025 – Nitin Nadella
2022-2023 – Siddharth Balaji
2017-2018 – Comron Hassanzadeh

Northwestern University Dermatology Clinical Research Program

2024-2025 – Joyce Change
2023-2024 – Victoria Shi
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

Washington University Orthopedic Research Fellowship

2024-2025 – Rohit Sidabattula

Orthopedic Sports Medicine Research Fellowship Mayo Clinic

2024-2025 – Sandeep Yanamala

University of Nebraska Dermatology Research

2024-2025 – Anya Kumar

University of California Davis Department of Dermatology Wound Healing Research

2024-2025 – Pooja Shet

Grainger Research Urology Fellowship, Mayo Clinic

2024-2025– Chloe Shi

Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education

2024-2025– Anya Kumar

John’s Hopkins Research in Interventional Radiology

2024-2025 – Hannah Abraham

Summer Research Fellowships

NIDDK Medical Student Research Training Programs

2025 – Shravani Khisti (Vanderbilt)
2025 – Iqra Mohammed (Northwestern)
2025 – Nivitha Kandula (Michigan)
2025 – Amulya Manchikanti (Michigan)
2024 – Behtany Bockelman (Wash U)
2024 – Rayaan Rauf (Illinois- Chicago)
2024 – Rohit Rajput (Wash U)
2024 – Nina Zhu (Boston)
2024 – Rithvik Talluri (Michigan)
2024 – Treiy Tinich (Vanderbilt)
2024 – Eric Chai (Vanderbilt)
2023 – Daniel Song (Vanderbilt)
2023 – Hersha Nalam (Chicago)
2023 – Sriya Korsaraju
2023 – Krish Sardesai (Vanderbilt)
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 – Harinee Arunachalam (Boston)
2020 – Rohan Ahuja (Vanderbilt)
2020 – Neal Shah (Vanderbilt)
2017 – Ben Bernard
2016 – Muhammed Alikhan (Vanderbilt)
2016 – Yicheng Bao (Wash U)

NIH Summer Internship Program

2024 – Leah Snidman
2023 – Nitin Nadella (SIP)
2021 – Ellie Kaji
2018 – Rashmi Thimmapuram
2017 – Chizi Ibezim

Washington University Summer TL1 Research Training Program

2025 – Fatimah Hussain
2025 – Julia Jose
2025 – Annika Tsay
2025 – Suchita Karnati
2024 – Pooja Shet
2024 – Monisha Balaji
2024 – Sophie Li
2024 – Ria Dave
2024 – Cameran Jones
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

Wash U Public Health

2024 – Grace Duff
2022 – Ella Kinder

SIR Radiology Summer Research Program

2022 – Mira Malavia
2021 – Herschel Gupta

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

2017 – Akash Jani

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

2020 – Sidharth Ramesh
2017 – Vishnu Harikumar

MD Anderson Cancer Center Summer Research Program

2025 – Shekhar Gugnani
2024– Rishabh Gaur
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

2025 – Michelle Wu (Kansas)
2025 – Arkadeep Ghosh (Michigan)
2023 – Nabeel 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

2024 – Nicholas Johnson
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

2024 – Carter Coleman

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

2024 – Vedvignesh Gorjala
2023 – Arkadeep Ghosh

William Hunt Summer Scholars Program (OSU)

2024 – Shravani Khisti
2023 – Abbey Jin

Nationwide Injury Research Peds

2023 – Holden Joynes

Minority Ophthalmology Mentoring Program

2023 – Abbey Jin

Harvard – Longwood Short Term Research Training

2024 – Tejas Saravanan
2023 – Anuhya Dayal

Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Summer Research Program at Wash U

2025 – Brody Whalen
2024 – Cole Crossman
2024 – Lasya Daggumati
2023 – Eric Errampalli

Stanford Chariot Summer Fellowship Program

2025 – Luna Muhamad

JACK’s Summer Scholars Program

2024 – Asad Siddiqui (VCU)

NYU Grossman School of Medicine Pediatrics Med Student Summer Research Fellowship

2024 – Aishani Vengala

Stanford CVI Summer Research Program

2024 – Anh Luu

Northwestern Physical Med and Rehab

2024 – Rekha Swammy

RREMS PM&R Research, Columbia

2025 – Shreya Chalapalli

RREMS PM&R Research, Columbia

2025 – Shreya Chalapalli

Wash U T32 Summer Research

2019 – Divya Jain

UT Southwestern Summer Research

2024 – Rohma Zaidi

UIC Summer Research

2024 – Alyaa Elsayed
2024 – Harish Karhikeyan

UIC Summer Research

2024 – Simren Mahajan

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