Evans Day Research Awards

Recipients of the Evans Day research awards are selected from the submissions to the poster session and oral presentations and presented at the Evans Day award Banquet.

Clinical Oral Presentation*
Basic Research Oral Presentation*
Clinical Poster Winners
Basic Research Poster Winners

2025 Clinical Oral Presentation Winners
1^st Place: Ali Elzieny
2^nd Place: Amy Yuan
3^rd Place: Hung Vo

2025 Basic Science Oral Presentation Winners
1^st Place: Diya Pamidimukkla
2^nd Place: Thea De
3^rd Place: Porter Dooley

2025 Clinical Poster Winners
1^st Place: Katie McMenamin
2^nd Place: Stephanie Pan
3^rd Place: Brindet Socrates

2025 Basic Science Poster Winners
1^st Place: Isabelle Joy
2^nd Place: Joseph McWhirter
3^rd Place: Kylie Tang
3^rd Place: Jonathan Chang

Past awardees

2024 Clinical Oral Presentation Winners
1^st Place: Augusta Alwang
2^nd Place: Amulya Shastry
3^rd Place: Wissam Ghusn

2024 Basic Science Oral Presentation Winners
1^st Place: Elise Armstrong
2^nd Place: Adam Lazowski
2^nd Place: Hirofumi Kiyokawa
2^nd Place: Jeffrey Sheridan

2024 Clinical Poster Winners
1^st Place: Sophia Rosan
2^nd Place: Aditya Chowdhri
3^rd Place: Lingyi Xu

2024 Basic Science Poster Winners
1^st Place: Zhan Xi
2^nd Place: Harshita Pattam
3^rd Place: Andrea Alber
3^rd Place: James Decker

2023 Clinical Oral Presentation Winners
1^st Place: Lauren Kearney, MD
2^nd Place: Victoria Overbeck, MPH
3^rd Place: Breanne Biondi, MPH

2023 Basic Science Oral Presentation Winners
1^st Place: Lucien Garo, PhD Candidate
2^nd Place: Olivia Perry
3^rd Place: Roxana Pfefferkorn, PhD

2023 Clinical Poster Winners
1^st Place: Samantha Malatesta, PhD Candidate
2^nd Place: Adriana Flores, MD
3^rd Place: Alex Werekuu, MPH

2023 Basic Science Poster Winners
1^st Place: Gwen Beacham, PhD
2^nd Place: Burcu Erdogan, PhD
3^rd Place: Lorraine Soares De Oliveira, PhD

2022 Clinical Oral Presentation Winners
Ioanna Yiannakou, RDC, MS, PhD Candidate – 1st Place
Samantha Siskind, MD – 2nd Place
Ross Okazaki – 3rd Place

2022 Basic Research Oral Presentation Winners
Kiloni Quiles – 1st Place
David Bean – 2nd Place
Fatima Rizvi, PhD – 3rd Place

2022 Clinical Poster Winners
Dylan Steiner – 1st Place
Najia Idress – 2nd Place
Divya Shankar, MD – 3rd Place

2022 Basic Poster Winners
Liang (Martin) Ma, MD, PhD Candidate – 1st Place
Anna McGregor – 2nd Place
Mehmed Taha Dinc, MD – 3rd Place

2021 Clinical Oral Presentation Winners
Eduardo Núñez, MD —1st Place
Yusuke Koga, BS, MS —2nd Place
Brook Rice, MD —3rd Place

2021 Basic Oral Presentation Winners
Anukul T. Shenoy, PhD —1st Place
Khaliun Enkhbayar —2nd Place
Rhiannon Werder —3rd Place

2021 Clinical Poster Winners
Hamza Hassan, MD —1st Place(tied)
Kate Bloch, PhD —1st Place(tied)
Mengjie Yuan, PhD —3rd Place

2021 Basic Poster Winners
Neelou Etesami, MD, PhD Candidate —1st Place
Liang (Martin) Ma, MD, PhD Candidate —2nd Place
Megan Snyder, PhD Candidate —3rd Place

2020 Clinical Poster Winners
Michael Garcia, MD —1st Place
Kathryn Fantasia, MD —2nd Place tie
Meenah Zareh, MD —2nd Place tie

2020 Basic Poster Winners
Jessie Huang, PhD — 1st Place
Wenqing Yin, MD, PhD —2nd Place tie
Anukul T. Shenoy, MS, PhD —2nd Place tie
Michael Herriges, PhD —2nd Place tie

2020 Most Abstract Submissions
Computational Biomedicine & Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)

*Oral & Poster awards were combined in 2020 due to virtual event