• MSTP PhD2 student Prashant Bhat was awarded an NIH F30 grant for his project “Determining the function and mechanism of the MALAT1 long non-coding RNA in co-transcriptional splicing”. Congratulations Prashant!
• MSTP PhD3 student Kevin Qian was awarded an NIH F30 grant for his project “Regulation of thermogenesis by the novel brown adipose-specific protein BASIC”. Congratulations Kevin!
• MSTP PhD3 student Yeon Joo (Ashley) Kim was awarded an NIH F30 grant for her project “Elucidating the epigenetic mechanism of melanoma dedifferentiation in response to pro-inflammatory cytokines”. Congratulations Ashley!
• MSTP PhD4 student Cody Aros was awarded an NIH F31 grant for his project “Evaluating the Role and Regulation of Wnt Signaling in Proximal Airway Homeostasis and Injury Repair“. Congratulations Cody!
• MSTP PhD2 student Bryce Bajar was awarded an NIH F30 grant for his project “Determining the function and mechanism of spontaneous network activity during synaptogenesis in the Drosophila visual system“. Congratulations Bryce!
• MSTP MD3 student Ernest Lee, PhD will be awarded the 2019 Edward K. Rice Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. This award is for the top PhD student in the School of Engineering at UCLA. Congratulations Ernest!
• MSTP PhD3 student James Edward Asuncion was awarded an NIH F30 grant for his project “Vesicular monoamine transporter trafficking affects mode of neurotransmitter release and microcircuit function“, Congratulations James!
• MSTP PhD3 student Yuxi Tian was awarded an NIH F31 grant for his project titled “Large Scale Observational Analytics for Health Informatics”, Congratulations Yuxi!
• MSTP PhD3 student Xuan Tran is the recipient of the Autism Speaks Weatherstone Predoctoral Fellows for 2017 for her project: “Impact of Familial ASD Risk on Functional Brain Connectivity in Infants”. Congratulations Xuan!
• MSTP PhD4 student Ernest Lee is the recipient of the Early Career Research Grant from the National Psoriasis Foundation for the project: “NETs generate immune complexes to amplify TLR9-based inflammation in psoriasis“. Congratulations Ernest!
• MSTP PhD2 student Yuxi Tian is the recipient of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans from 2016 to 2018.  Congratulations Yuxi!
• MSTP PhD2 student Aanand Patel was awared an NIH F30 grant for his project titled “Regulation of the Drosophila Formin FHOD by Alternative Splicing”, Congratulations Aanand!
• MSTP PhD3 student Richard A. Morgan was awarded an NIH F31 grant for his project titled “Improved Globin Expression Vectors for Gener Therapy of Human Hemoglobinopathies”. Congratulations, Richard!
• MSTP PhD3 student Alexander Sun was awarded an NIH F30 grant for his project titled “Quaternary Heterocycles for Drug Discovery“. Congratulations, Alex!
• MSTP PhD2 student Karthik V. Sarma was awarded an NCI F30 Award for his project titled “Development of a Multimodal Deep Learning Model for the Generation of Cancer Probability Maps and Imaging Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer using Multiparametric MRI. Congratulations Karthik!
• MSTP PhD5 student Esther Nie was awarded the prestigious Eva Kavan Prize for Excellence in Research on the Brain on June 14, 2016.  Congratulations, Esther!
• MSTP PhD4 student Philip Bulterys won 2nd place in the 2016 UCLA Grad Slam competition with his research on “Disarming Deadly Bacteria“. Congratulations, Philip!
• MSTP PhD3 student Sophie Rengarajan was awarded an NIGMS F30 Award for her project titled “Dopaminergic modulation of CO2 response during starvation in C. elegans.”  Congratulations, Sophie!
• MSTP PhD3 student Cynthia He was awarded an NINDS F30 Award for her project titled “Linking defects in cortical network activity with altered sensory perception in Fragile X mice.”  Congratulations, Cynthia!
• MSTP PhD3 student Pradeep Rajendran was awarded an NHLBI F31 Award for his project titled “Myocardial Infarction Alters Information Processing within the Intrinsic Cardiac Nervous System.”  Congratulations, Pradeep!
• MSTP PhD4 student Narsis Attar was awarded an NCI F30 Award for her grant titled “Dynamics of Global Histone Acetylation in Regulating Intracellular pH”. Congratulations, Narsis!
• MSTP PhD4 student Steven Klein wins the Autism Speaks Weatherstone Fellowship! Congratulations, Steve!
• MSTP PhD2 student Karthik V. Sarma chosen to receive the RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) Trainee Research Prize for his project titled: “An Investigational Patch-based Convolutional Neural Network Model for the Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer using Multiparametric MRI”. Congratulations Karthik!