Celebrating Young Investigators: 2025 Award Winners
Groundbreaking discoveries by our trainees and their faculty mentors are driving the research frontier at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Each year, the highly anticipated Young Investigators' Day ceremony honors the contributions of our junior researchers and the dedicated mentors who guide them. Get inspired by this year’s awardees—click on any trainee to explore their remarkable achievements both inside the lab and beyond.
Young Investigators’ Day will be held Monday, April 14, from 3–5 p.m in the Mountcastle Auditorium in the Preclinical Teaching Building, 725 N. Wolfe St.
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Tej D. Azad, M.D., M.S.
Physician Scientist Award
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Rachel J. Boyd, Ph.D.
The Mette Strand Research Award
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Daniel Bruhm
The Claude and Barbara Migeon Research Award
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Minhyeok Chang, Ph.D.
The Paul Ehrlich Research Award
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Kevin Chen
The Michael Shanoff Research Award
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Joseph Choi
The Davis Israel Macht Research Award
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Emily A. DeBoy
The Paul Talalay Research Award
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Frances Diehl, Ph.D.
The Daniel Nathans Research Award
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Chuanyu Guo, Ph.D.
The Claude and Barbara Migeon Research Award
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Jacqueline Griswold, Ph.D.
The Mette Strand Research Award
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Arisa Ikeda Ph.D.
The Helen B. Taussig Research Award
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Qiang Jiang
The Mohammed Repon Khan Memorial Research Award
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Justin Huang, M.S.
The Paul Ehrlich Research Award
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Ruchita Kothari
The Martin and Carol Macht Research Award
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Nicholas Keith
The Bae Gyo Jung Research Award
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Mehmet Keles, Ph.D.
The A. McGehee Harvey Research Award
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Anish Kumar Mondal, Ph.D.
The Paul Ehrlich Research Award
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Yiyan Lin
The David Yue Research Award
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Yongqing Liu, Ph.D.
The Paul Ehrlich Research Award
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Alexandra D. Medcalf
Postbaccalaureate Award
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Tushar D. Nichakawade
The Michael A. Shanoff Research Award
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Alejandra Montaño Romero
The Alicia Showalter Reynolds Research Award
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James Saba
The Nupur Dinesh Thekdi Research Award
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Rong Wu, Ph.D.
The W. Barry Wood Jr. Research Award
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Yu Kang (Tiger) Xu
The Hans J. Prochaska Research Award
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Zhong Yi Yeow, D.Phil.
The Alfred Blalock Research Award
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Fan Zhao, Ph.D.
The Albert Lehninger Research Award