Jessica Young, PhD Assistant Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology "Dissecting the mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease pathogenesis using hiPSC-derived neural cells" Alessandro Bertero, PhD Acting Assistant Professor of Lab Medicine and Pathology "Functional dynamics of chromatin topology in congenital heart disease"

Smita Yadav, PhD Assistant Professor of Pharmacology "Tail of Two Taos: TAO Kinases in Neurodevelopment Disorders" Michael Rappleye Graduate Student in Berndt Lab "High-throughput Optimization of GPCR-based sensors for Opioid and Dopamine Detection"

Rong Tian, MD, PhD Professor of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine and Bioengineering "Mitochondria and inflammation" David Mack, PhD Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine "A multiscale approach to understanding the pathophysiology of Duchenne muscular dystrophy"

Daniel Yang, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine/Cardiology "Modeling genetic cardiomyopathies with human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes" Laura Crisa, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine/Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition "Myeloid cell-dependent expansion of mature islet cells and immature progenitor pools in the post-natal pancreas"

Kelly Stevens, PhD Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology "Why all scientists need to care that we equitably Fund Black Scientists"   Thelma Escobar, PhD Assistant Professor of Biochemistry "Identifying histone chaperone(s) involved in the inheritance of facultative heterochromatin"

Hannele Ruohola-Baker, PhD Professor of Biochemistry "DREAM Designed Regeneration And Medicine"   Nobu Hamazaki Postdoctoral Fellow in Shendure Lab "Developmental trajectories with in vitro human embryogenesis"