2024 WORLDSymposium Young Investigator Awards Announced

Yuki Shiro, Esteban Gonzalez, Edina Poletto, Lena Marie Westermann, Tomas Baldwin, Sarah Hurt, Vi Pham, Betul Celik, Irene Serrano Gonzalo

Congratulations to the ten individuals selected who received the 20th Annual 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 20th Annual Scientific Meeting on Tuesday, February 6, at 7:30 AM PST

  • Tomas Baldwin, University College London, London, United Kingdom
  • Betul Celik, University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE, United States
  • Esteban Gonzalez, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Sarah Hurt, Washington University St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States
  • Vi Pham, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
  • Luisa Pimentel Vera, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
  • Edina Poletto, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
  • Irene Serrano Gonzalo, Fundación Española Para el Estudio y Terapéutica de la Enfermedad de Gaucher y Otras Lisosomales, Zaragoza, Spain
  • Yuki Shiro, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
  • Lena Marie Westermann, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany