2025 WORLDSymposium Young Investigator Awards

Congratulations to the ten individuals selected who received the 2025 WORLDSymposium Young Investigator Award. The award is a partial scholarship towards attendance at WORLDSymposium. 81 investigators-in-training submitted an application for the award, and the review process was difficult due to the excellent caliber of all the applications. WORLDSymposium would like to congratulate all of the applicants for their hard work. The following individuals received the WORLDSymposium Young Investigator Award at the 21st Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 08:00 PST.

  • Pratikshya Adhikari, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
  • Aimee Donald, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Allan Feng, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
  • Angelica Maria Herreno Pachon, University of Delaware, Wilmington, United States
  • Andres Felipe Leal, Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, United States
  • Connor J. Lewis, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
  • Anna Reinelt, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
  • Krystyna Noelle Rytel, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
  • Roselena S. Schuh, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Ewa A. Ziolkowska, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, United States