PDA Travel Award

We are happy to announce the winners of the PDA Fall Conference Awards (“travel” awards). We were able to fund more awards this year because each was funded for a smaller amount (up to $500 of virtual conference registration/expenses) but we still had more qualified applicants than we were able to fund. Thanks to Georgios Polychondritis, chair of the PDA awards committee for coordinating this effort and to all the faulty who volunteered to score abstracts.

We are happy to announce the winners of the PDA Spring/Summer Conference Awards (“travel” awards). We were able to fund more awards this year because each was funded for a smaller amount (up to $500 of virtual conference registration/expenses) but we still had more qualified applicants than we were able to fund. We received no qualifying applications from research associates or Takemi fellows, so all of these awards for this cycle went to postdocs. Thanks to Georgios Polychronidis, chair of the PDA awards committee for coordinating this effort and to all the faculty who volunteered to score abstracts.

• Thien-Khoi Phung, Department of Environmental Health
• James Etheridge , Department of Health Policy and Management/Ariadne Labs
• Yancong Zhang, Department of Biostatistics
• Adedotun Ogunbajo, Department of Epidemiology
• Ryan Sassan Babadi , Department of Environmental Health
• Elise Elliott, Department of Environmental Health
• Harold Lee, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 PDA Spring Travel Award:

• Ming Ding (Research Associate, Nutrition)
• Nikhil Panda (Postdoc, Biostats)
• Leslie Adams (Postdoc, Global Health and Population)
• Douglas Paton (Postdoc, Immunology and Infectious Diseases)
• Runze Huang (Postdoc, Environmental Health)

We received an outstanding 22 applications! Thank you to all applicants, judges, Office of Faculty Affairs, and PDA travel award committee for their hard work.

• Megan Delisle (Postdoc, Epidemiology)
• Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier (Postdoc, Nutrition)
• Jongeun Rhee (Postdoc, Environmental Health)
• Ryoko Sato (Research Associate, Global Health and Population)

• Maayan Yitshak-Sade, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Health
• Jungyeon Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Global Health
• Jun Li, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Nutrition
• Neha Bairoliya, Research Associate in the Department of Global Health

• Estela Shabani, Immunology and Infectious Disease: “Characterization of a novel erythroid progenitor cell-line for the identification of host determinants of Plasmodium falciparum protein export and growth” for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 67th Annual Meeting (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
• Zhaozhong Zhu, Epidemiology and Environment Health: “Shared genetic architecture between asthma and allergic diseases: A genome-wide cross trait analysis of 112,000 individuals from UK biobank” for the American Thoracic Society Conference (San Diego, California, USA)
• Danilo Alvares da Silva, Biostatistics: “A sequential approach to Bayesian joint modelling of longitudinal and survival data” for the ENAR 2018 Spring Meeting (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
• Trang VoPham, Epidemiology: “Dioxin exposure and breast cancer risk in the Nurses’ Health Study II” for the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Conference (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)

• Laura Balzer, Biostatistics: “A new approach to hierarchical data analysis: targeted maximum likelihood estimation of cluster-based exposures under interference” for the Society for Epidemiologic Research (Seattle, WA)
• Mary Ellen Molloy, Environmental Health: “Positive cross-regulatory loop links ZBTB7A to estrogen receptor alpha expression in breast cancer, American” for the Association for Cancer Research (Washington D.C.)
• Rebecca L. Franckle, Nutrition: “The impact of the monthly SNAP issuance cycle on consumer shopping behaviors in a large Northeastern supermarket chain” for the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (Victoria, BC, Canada)
• Danielle Braun, Biostatistics: “Methods to Estimate Causal Effects Adjusting for Confounding when an Ordinal Exposure is Mismeasured” for the Atlantic Causal Inference Conference (Chapel Hill, NC)

• Souzana Achilleos, Environmental Health: “Composition of particulate matter originated from desert dust storms in the Eastern Mediterranean region” for the International Society of Exposure Science conference (Durham, NC)
• Marta Guasch-Ferré, Nutrition: “Gut Microbiota related Plasma Metabolites and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in the PREDIMED Study” for the American Heart Association, EPI/Lifestyle 2017 Scientific Sessions (Portland, OR)
• Marguerite Nyhan, Environmental Health: “Quantifying Population Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter Air Population Using Mobile-Device-Based Human Mobility Patterns” for the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (Sydney, AUS)
• William Robert Shaw, Immunology and Infectious Diseases: “Hormonal pathways linking egg development and Plasmodium infection in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes” for Mosquito Kolymbari Meeting (Kolymbari, Greece)

• Brian Arnold
• Igna Bonfrer
• Cara Boutte
• Nadia Abuelezam

• Marthe Helene Havercamp
• Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald
• Mara Barcelos
• Christian Suharlim

• Sarah Aroner
• Alex Carll
• Ashley Winning

• Shu Yang
• Kerry Ivey
• Maya Vadiveloo

• Caroline Boeke, Epidemiology
• Morteza Asgarzadeh, Nutrition
• Jennifer Mitchel, Environmental Health

• Susan Gruber
• Deirdre Tobias
• Vasileia Varvarigou
• Shilpa Bhupathiraju
• Andrej Trauner
• Zhong-wei Jia

• Bradley Coleman, Immunology and Infectious Diseases
• Djøra Soeteman, Center for Health Decision Science

• An Pan, Nutrition
• Karen Joynt, Health Policy and Management