All CU Awardees

Marissa Baranauskas, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Physiology and Nutrition

Benjamin J. Kopecky, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, Section of Heart Failure/Transplant

Jennifer McKey, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Developmental Biology

Jessica Nelson, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

Andrew Quesada Tan, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Physiology

Halil Aydin, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry 

Nick Bottenus, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Biomedical, Mechanics of Materials, Robotics and Systems Design

Neel Butala, M.D., M.B.A.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Medicine-Cardiology

Caroline M. Dias, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Nuris Figueroa-Morales, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Physics

Matthew Witkowski, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Martin W. Breuss, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics and Metabolism

Shanlee Davis, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Michael S. Leibowitz, M.D., Ph.D
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Andrew C. Smith, P.T., D.P.T., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor,  Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Aaron T. Whiteley, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry

Nausica Arnoult, Ph.D.

University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Joshua Bear, M.D., M.A.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Neurology

Sarah Clark, Ph.D. 
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery

Craig Forester, M.D, Ph.D. 
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor,  Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology/BMT

Mia Smith, D.V.M., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Immunology and Microbiology

Petter Bjornstad, M.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine

Justin Brumbaugh, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Suet Nee Chen Ph.D. 
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division 

Andra Lee Dingman, M.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child Neurology

Sridharan Raghavan, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Medicine

M. Cecilia Caino, Ph.D. 
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Robert Dietz, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics 

Neelanjan Mukherjee, Ph.D. 
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics 

Tara Cepon Robins, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Assistant Professor of Anthropology 

Kelly D. Sullivan, Ph.D. 
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Edward B. Chuong, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, BioFrontiers Institute

Kathleen M. Gavin, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine

Jean M. Mulcahy Levy, M.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics

David H. Root, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

Matthew Taliaferro, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Eszter K. Vladar, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine

Joshua C. Black, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology

Angelo D'Alessandro, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor and Director of the Metabolomics Core - School of Medicine

Kristine A. Kuhn, MD, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology

Eric M. Pietras, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology

John A. Thompson, Ph.D.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery

Wen-Yuan Elena Hsieh, MD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Immunology & Microbiology and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology

Ethan G. Hughes, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Bernard L. Jones, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Medical Physics

Sabrina Leigh Spencer, PhD
University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Cristin Welle, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Bioengineering

Hongjin Zheng, PhD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

James Costello, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of pharmacology; cancer systems biology and pharmacogenomics

Santos J. Franco, Ph.D.

CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of pediatric stem cell biology; brain stem cells in development and disease

Melanie Cree Green, M.D., Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; instructor of pediatric endocrinology; fatty liver in adolescents with polycystic ovarian syndrome

Aaron N. Johnson, Ph.D.
CU Denver; assistant professor of integrative biology; molecular mechanisms of congenital myopathies

Erik B. Oleson, Ph.D.
CU Denver; assistant professor of psychology; dopaminergic contributions to behavior and psychopathology

Roger A. Bannister, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of medicine; skeletal and cardiac muscle physiology

Subhajyoti De, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of biomedical informatics and personalized medicine; cancer genomics, lung cancer, somatic mutations, NA damage and repair, algorithm development, optimization

Loren Hough, Ph.D.
CU-Boulder; assistant professor of physics; structural biology of order and disordered proteins

Kunhua Song, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of medicine; regenerative medicine and heart development/disease

Amrut V. Ambardekar, M.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of medicine; myocardial recovery after ventricular assist device implantation

Joseph A. Brzezinski, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of ophthalmology; mechanisms of retinal development and disease

Soyeon Park, Ph.D.
CU-Boulder; assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology; molecular mechanisms of proteasome biogenesis

Abigail L. Person, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of physiology and biophysics; corollary discharge pathways underlying schizophrenia symptoms

Harald Junge, Ph.D.
CU-Boulder; assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology; retinal vascular development and disease 

Matthew Kennedy, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of pharmacology; molecular mechanisms of Alzheimer’s pathology 

Chad G. Pearson, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of cell and developmental biology; organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton for cell division and signaling  

Zhe Chen, Ph.D.
CU-Boulder; assistant professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology; axon guidance during neural development

Robert C. Doebele, M.D., Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of medical oncology; resistance mechanisms in oncogene-driven lung cancer

Jing H. Wang, M.D., Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of immunology and microbiology; antibody production and genomic instability in B lymphocytes

Robin Dowell, D. Sc.
CU-Boulder; assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology; translational bioinformatics involving drug efficacy and genetics

Gidon Felsen, Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of physiology and biophysics; Parkinson’s Disease

Paul Jedlicka, M.D., Ph.D.
CU Anschutz Medical Campus; assistant professor of pathology; Ewing Sarcoma, a common cancer of the bone and soft tissue affecting children