BNORC Travel Award Program
The Center’s travel award program has been discontinued as of June 2022. Please contact Donna Gibson (dgibson@bu.edu) with any questions.
Travel Grant Awardees: 2019-2020
Thiago Batista, PhD, Research Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: C. Ronald Kahn
Meeting: Keystone Symposia, Diabetes: Glucose Control and Beyond
Julie Gervis, MS, PhD Student
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Alice Lichtenstein
Meeting: Epi|Lifestyle 2020, American Heart Association
Eliza Greiner, Graduate Student
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Gorica D. Petrovich
Meeting: Society for Neuroscience
John Griffin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Andrew Greenberg
Meeting: Obesity Week – The Obesity Society
Liya Kerem, MD, MSc, Third Year Clinical and Research Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Elizabeth Lawson
Meeting: Obesity Week – The Obesity Society
Benjamin Kugler, MS, Graduate Student/Research Assistant
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Kai Zou
Meeting: NHLBI Mitochondrial Biology Symposium
Danielle Lafferty, Graduate Student
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Gorica D. Petrovich
Meeting: Society for Neuroscience
Jennifer Lee, PhD, Instructor in Medicine
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Barbara Kahn
Meeting: Keystone: A Gut-Systemic Perspective for Metabolic Disease
Nabil Rabhi, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Steve Farmer
Meeting: Keystone: Obesity Week – The Obesity Society
Syed Husain Mustafa Rizvi, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Markus Bachschmid
Meeting: Keystone: Society for Redox Biology and Medicine
Shuai Yan, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Evan Rosen
Meeting: Keystone: Keystone Symposia on Metabolism and Cellular Biology
Travel Grant Awardees: 2018-2019
Dominique Ameroso, PhD Candidate
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Maribel Rios
Meeting: Society for Neuroscience
Zhaoli Dai, PhD, Posdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: David Felson
Meeting: Nutrition 2018
Justin English, PhD Student
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Valentina Perissi
Meeting: The Obesity Society: Obesity Week
Kimberly Glazer, Doctoral Candidate
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Alison Field
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Eating Disorders Research Society
Dylan Thomas, MD, Endocrinology Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Caroline Apovian
Meeting: The Obesity Society: Obesity Week
Yixing Yuchi, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Mary-Elizabeth Patti
Meeting: 78th Scientific Sessions, ADA
Travel Grant Awardees: 2017-2018
Yoav Livneh, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Brad Lowell and Mark Andermann
Meeting: Winter Conference on Brain Research
Nabil Rabhi, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Steve Farmer
Meeting: Cell Symposia: Metabolic Disease Therapies
Anna Santoro, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Barbara Kahn
ADA Scientific Sessions 2018
Dylan Thomas, MD, Endocrinology Fellow
BNORC Mentor/Sponsor: Nawfal Istfan
Meeting: Obesity Week 2017
Travel Grant Awardees: 2016-2017
Samantha Berger, Graduate Student
JM USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, Tufts University
Meeting: Obesity Week 2016
Paul Greer, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Sara Keefer, Graduate Student
Boston College
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Cho Low, Graduate Student
Tufts University
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
Yael Mandelblat-Cerf, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Meeting: Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior
Hyun Cheol Roh, PhD,
Postdoctoral Fellow Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Meeting: Obesity and Adipose Tissue Biology
Yoav Livneh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Meeting: Winter Conference on Brain Research
Nabil Rabhi, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University School of Medicine
Meeting: Cell Symposia: Metabolic Disease Therapies
Anna Santoro, PharmD, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Meeting: ADA Scientific Sessions
Dylan Thomas, MD
Endocrinology Fellow, Boston University
Sponsor: Nawfal Istfan
Meeting: Obesity Week (2017)