Postdoctoral Fellow Excellence in Mentorship Award

This award is intended to honor a postdoctoral fellow who shows an outstanding record of supportive mentorship in a laboratory during their time at the School of Medicine.

Nomination and support letters should describe the postdoctoral fellow’s character, their investment and commitment to training the next generation of researchers, the frequency of the interactions and length of relationships with mentees, and the importance of their impact on the mentee’s professional or educational success.

The following items are required by the committee:

• A nomination letter from a mentee of the candidate.
• An additional letter of support from a faculty member, postdoctoral fellow, graduate student, staff member, or additional mentee
• A curriculum vitae highlighting the candidate’s mentorship activity

Fall 2022- Daiana Cardoso Oliveira Viera, PhD, Department of Physiology

Fall 2020 - Bekir Altas, PhD, Department of Pharmacology

Fall 2019 - Natalie Zlebnik, PhD, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology