Class Speaker Awards Winners

Nominated by peers and selected by the Dean.

2026

Humberto Ochoa-Perez
Mentor: Craig Mello, PhD

2025

Clevanne Julce
Mentor: Nancy Byatt, DO

2024

Julie Hugunin
Mentor: Kate Lapane, PhD

2023

Kathleen Morrill
Mentor: Elinor Karlsson, PhD

2022

Daniel Hidalgo
Mentor: Merav Socolovsky, MD, PhD

2021

Sumeet Nayak
Mentor: Sharon Cantor, PhD

2020

Pranitha Vangala
Mentor: Manuel Garber, PhD

2019

Jose Mercado-Matos
Mentor: Leslie Shaw, PhD

2018

Jill Moore
Mentor: Zhiping Weng, PhD

2017

Brian Quattrochi
Mentor: Brian Lewis, PhD

2016

Aditya Venkatesh
Mentor: Claudio Punzo, PhD

2015

Allie Muthukumar
Mentor: Marc Freeman, PhD