2026 WORLDSymposium Young Investigator Awards
Congratulations to the ten individuals selected that received the 2026 WORLDSymposium Young Investigator Award. The award was a partial scholarship towards attendance at WORLDSymposium. 87 investigators-in-training submitted an application for the award. The depth and high quality of submissions made the Committee’s decisions especially challenging, a reflection of the remarkable talent advancing lysosomal disease research worldwide. WORLDSymposium would like to congratulate all of the applicants for their hard work. The following individuals received the WORLDSymposium Young Investigator Award at the 22nd Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday, February 4, 2026 at 08:00 PST.
- Jose Victor Alvarez Gonzalez, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Maria Athanasopoulos, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Matthias Dierick, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Melissa Greco, Virginia Tech, Roanoke, Virginia, United States
- Mahin Hossain, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
- Alex Huang, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Sampurna Saikia, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States
- Ryunosuke Sanada, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan
- Pau Sarlé Vallés, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
- Udayanga Wanninayake, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States